Have you ever got to a semi final or final stage where you have been asked to share the money? This happens a lot and Christophe asked me if I have experienced it. I recall one huge final in the old Londonaise Petanque tournament where the highly skilled French team were asked about sharing the money before the final from a scratch team who were put together that day. The French team sneered and declined. Incredibly the scratch team including Ron de Haan went on to win! 🏆 Do you think this reduces the atmosphere or desire to win or does it make the players more relaxed and play better.

Carreaux Carreaux sur Place Tir raffle | Raspaille | (raffle-shot?) = hit the ground maybe a metre in front of target Casquette = when you hit the ball on the head Pallet is where you hit a boule in front of the boule and it carries through and gets closer (to the Cochon) →WHAT DO YOU CALL← when your boule is nearer the jack than the target boule after the shot? Streifschuss (.de) a glancing shot that barely moves the target Boule I find conflicting definitions and descriptions of shooting terms. Is there a good source out there I could refer to? Or, *if people give clear definitions below, I could add them to this post.* Shooting terminology comes mainly from the French language - I include German terms (from the region I play) - *if there's equivalent French or English terms please let me know and I will add.*

Let’s have your weekend reports with your wins or lessons. For me, I didn’t really play at all apart from one fun melee which I don’t really count and it was just mixing it up. I was filming the rest of the time.

A warm welcome to the newest members of this academy. Please write a comment telling us a bit about you, what you are looking for in this community and your experience in the game. Please welcome Nicolo, Hendrik, Jean, Anthony, Christophe, Clive, Keesjan, Alan, Glyn, Luis, David, Claire, Amir, Jack, David, Paolo, Knut, Josef and Taha

In this competition you shoot 10 balls at 8 metres. You write down the balls shot and the carreaus and pass on that result here. Kevin will announce the 3 week winners. We do this for 4 weeks. The final 3 winner are the ones who make the most progress in the 4 weeks. The winner of week 8-10 till 14-10 is Lee with 9 hits and 5 carreau.