Don & Jeff Practice at the Ball Field

This cool Michigan weather makes for comfortable petanque playing, but also signals the arrival of Winter and it's Anti-Petanque Snow. I'm contemplating a nice sized pole barn somewhere close wth a dirt floor we could convert into a gravel/dirt surface. We can always dream.

Last Sunday's match had Don shooting to an applause, so we've been trying out hitting away "opponent" boules and staying close to the cochon. We've drawn a meter circle around a cochon and a very close "enemy" boule and pretend it is a 4-player, 6 boule game, and we have to dislodge the close-boule and get at least 3 points to the cochonnet.

We tried a mixture of high-lobs, and direct hitting - depending on the surface flatness, one works better than the other.

Not too bad, we removed the opponent's boule, and got 2 points on the cochon before darkness fell sufficiently that we couldn't see.