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10 contributions to Petanque Performance Academy
2 likes • 20h
I would of considered shooting the coch before it was to late, but only if the shooter was feeling confident in their abilities to get it. Otherwise the other option was to point in against 1 of the opponents boule if I could, to make it harder for them to shoot and risk taking their own boule out too. Sometimes you have to risk it.
I’m thinking of buying a new set of boules this year
Just a quick poll, I’m thinking of doing video boule reviews for different brands and models and this would be valuable to me! I know @Paul Cornwell already bought some from me and MS which is great and shows my advice can help
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0 likes • 10d
Some of our shooters here have started going to larger boules, but lower weights. I've always been suggested shooters should go up 1 size but I know a few people who now gone up 2 to 3 sizes bigger but are dropping to as low as they can for weight.
1 like • 6d
Hi James, I started with 75/710 then when I started to play in regional and national competitions, I changed to ATX 74/710 and did well, was a betterfit in my hand.Then I was advised to drop to lower weights as I started to shoot more so I dropped to 74/690, it took a few months to really get used to the lighter boules. I do think my shooting improved with the lighter boules especially on the longer shots 9-10 mtrs.
The future of this project
🇫🇷 On Tuesday I do something that terrifies and excites me in equal measure. I leave my job — my only income — and move to the Languedoc in the south of France. No salary. No safety net. Just a camera, 40 years of pétanque in my hands, and a belief that I can build a life around this game I love. As you know, last weekend I finished Vice Champion of Manche Promotion Triples. This weekend I’m packing my boule plus a few cases and move to France permanently to play and film full time. I mention that sequence deliberately. This isn’t a retirement project or a content experiment. This is a serious competitive player making an irreversible commitment to the game — and bringing this community with him. But I’ll be honest with you. To make this work — to stay in France, keep filming, keep competing, and not have to come home with my tail between my legs — I need a team around me. That’s why today I’m opening just 20 Founding Member spots. And don’t worry this group will always be free for anyone with my normal advice and support from each other. If you become a Founding Member, you’re not just getting coaching. You’re joining my team. You’re the people who believed in this when it was just an idea and a one-way ticket. You’re the reason it works. And I will never forget that. Before I tell you what’s included, let me tell you what this actually is. This isn’t a subscription to content. It’s a mentoring relationship — before your competitions, after them, and every step of the game in between. The kind of support you’d pay a YouTube coach for, from someone you already trust, who is now living inside the French pétanque world full time and bringing everything he finds back to you. I am that confident you’ll feel the value of this that I’m offering a 7 day free trial. No risk. No obligation, to experience what proper pétanque mentoring feels like. I’d be genuinely surprised if you wanted to leave. A word on what this community already is: A collection of like minded players who want to improve and progress their game with support, encouragement and safety.
1 like • 10d
I'm interested in signing up thanks Kevin
Rucksack
Morning all, do any of you have a review on a suitable boule rucksack, im looking at getting something with a separate compartment for the boule, the Obut one looks good anyone have any info , cheers
2 likes • 21d
I have the Obut reporter 6 bag, I find it really great. It holds 6 boule in the bottom compartment. Then everything else in the top. Inside it has 2 small pouches, 1 with a zip, the other just open. 1 more small compartment on the back with a zip. I can carry everything I need for a game in it. I have my main boules and also a 2nd set that I use in practice for targets or obstacles. It has carry handles as well as a shoulder strap. Hope that helps if that's what you're looking for.
Match Scenario Friday 😀
Lets go for a new match scenario, if you guys think its boring just say and ill stop 😊 Game: The Score is 11-11 Both Teams have 2boules left, its the shooter in the opponents team that got the 2 boules in hand. He/she have had i high hitRate in this game. The opponent have the closest boule, 60cm from jack and your team have the second at 100cm ftån jack. How do you play! A: Point 2 times and hope for a miss or hope he doesn’t hit a carreaue? B: Shoot the Jack, guessing his good hitRate is to hard to ignore. C: Shoot 2 times and let him have 1 point. Or maby you have a other solution? 😎 Happy Friday everyone!
0 likes • Feb 7
Here in New Zealand, we tend to point more than shoot, especially if it is that open so in this case I would most likely try to out point the opposition and try to put it right on the jack or just in front of it, that way if he does hit my boule then hopefully it moves the jack also closer to our back boule. If they do get a carreaue, then I have 2 choices, play to cover his bouleand concede 1 point or I would shoot his boule with the hope I to get a carreaue or push the jack back and hope that their shooter doesn't get 2 carreaues in a row.
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Wayne Macdonald
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@wayne-macdonald-7540
Hello from New Zealand

Active 7h ago
Joined Jan 12, 2026
Auckland, New Zealand