The cicadas are singing, the ground is in the shade and there you are, balls in hand, ready to enter the hoop to play your first game of petanque of the year.
– ” Oh ! You shoot or you point ! ? », Launches your playing partner.
– “Nah, I’m going to point, but I feel that there it is necessary to seal rather”, you retort, full of insurance.
– “Plom-what?” »
– “It’s the opposite of rounding up. When you want to point, instead of shooting at ground level, “à la rasbaille”, as the people of Marseille also say, you throw the ball high, so that it falls like a lead and without rolling too much afterwards”, explain -YOU.
There you go, without having thrown a single ball yet, you already look like a connoisseur. Well, all this will probably not last longer than the first ends. But knowing how to deceive can be, nowadays, a quality. And with a little more bad faith, like, “Ah, but this land, it’s full of gratons too”, and you should be able to survive the holidays.
So, to help you shine on the bowling greens, we asked Samuel Lamare, European under-23 petanque champion, to show us and explain to us on video some gestures between two matches of the La Marseillaise world championship. petanque.