South African pinball petanque
At Parkhurst Petanque in Johannesburg, we developed a new game called Petanque Pinball.
View ArticlePetanque-pins are online
As we reported earlier Agatha Hanning of the netherlands have started designing petanque-pins. And now she is online with her pins
View ArticleDoping Agency Lifts Alcohol Ban for Pétanque
Devotees of pétanque will now be able to enjoy a glass of pastis before a match again: The World Anti-Doping Agency is to remove alcohol from its list of prohibited substances for competitions.
View ArticleManifestation 1.000 Boules in the Netherlands
10 shooters, amongst one woman, were present at the finals of the manifestation 1.000 Boules in Nieuwegein (very near to Utrecht in the centre of the country) on Saturday night, the 29th of October...
View ArticlePétanque - The greatest game you never heard of
Byron Putman discovered petanque some two years ago and fell in love, head over heels. Then decided to analyze every angle of the game, including its development in the USA. He started clubs in Palm...
View ArticleRules regarding a broken boule?
On Sunday 19 February 2012, I shot a boule and it made a metallic ping and broke perfectly in half when my bloues hit it. It seems that there had been a crack in the boules that had allowed some water...
View ArticleThe ultimate francophile boule-set
If you area true francophile you will need this. OBUT has in their wisdom created a Tour de France Boule set. Mais Oui
View ArticlePetanque in action - a photo series
Bent Toe from Sweden sent us a few photos of boule in action
View ArticlePetanque-festival in Wroc& 322;aw
Klub Sportowy Petanka Wroc& 322;aw and Polska Federacja Petanque would like to invite you to Petanque Festival, which is taking place on 19th and 20th of May 2012 in Wroc& 322;aw. On Saturday...
View ArticleThere is an app for that - BoulOmetre Petanque
Exclusively on Iphone. You take a picture of the boules layout, and then center a circle with adjustable radius on the target ball. The first boule to touch the circle is closest. Very simple. --...
View ArticleBuilding a Petanque Court in SE England
Having talked about it for years (especially during games in French holiday villas), I finally decided it was time for action and set about my own construction. <a href= /img/pub/113462260612.jpg...
View ArticleHave you looked at the postcards?
We have a very nice collection of postcards here on petanque.org, and all of them are about petanque of course. Currently we have more than 1750 postcards available for your enjoyment.
View ArticleGet petanque-postcards in your twitter stream
We have set up a system that will publish 2 new postcards to twitter every day from petanque.org. It will not work forever of course, in only 2,5 years we will start with re-runs of cards we have...
View ArticlePetanque 600 meters underground
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View ArticlePetanque-app for android users
FInally there is a petanque-app for the android-users out there. And it is free. The perfect xmas-present perhaps?
View ArticlePostcard-collection redesigned
We have done some redesigning here, and things are starting to look a bit more like 2013. The last change was back in 2005, and that was our 5th redesign. So here we are in the middle of our 6th change...
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