Maldon Petanque Club
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Welcome to Maldon Petanque Club Website
Welcome to Maldon Petanque Club Website
Our playing terrain is situated within the pictuesque setting of Maldon Promenade Park, Essex, UK. Overlooking the wonderful sights of the Rivers Chelmer and Blackwater, where many maritime, sporting and entertainment activities / events happen throughout the year.
There are numerous Cafes, vending outlets within promenade park as well as being in walking distance to Maldon's bustling high street with its many restaurants and shopping outlets. There are large parking areas within promenade park and Maldon town within close walking distance to our petanque terrain (local fees apply), there is also seasonal, free parking close by.
Our playing terrain consists of a level, fine to medium gravel surface, which is well drained to enable all year round play. Our terrain can be laned to enable 6 playing pistes, with a good covering of gravel over a well constructed base, and sub-base, allowing a very good playing terrain for pointers and shooters.
New members are always welcome, our club day is on a Saturday throughout the year, we meet at 10.45am for a 11am start, during spring, summer, autumn and winter months. Club days can consist of single, doubles and triples games, in a "round robin" format, dependant of members in attendance, one "end" / game can last 40 minutes, with several "ends" needed to complete a match, so play can last most of a day, but what a wonderful way to spend a day, with breaks between play, to soak-up and enjoy our tranquil surroundings. We do have spare playing boules, for anyone wanting to try this enjoyable game for the first time, and are always willing to give instruction and interpretation of rule, to allow participation and enjoyment of petanque, also, we can advise what and where to purchase Boules and equipment if wanting to become a member of Maldon Petanque Club.
Maldon Petanque Club is open to all, and all abilities, new members are matched with more experienced players, so can pick the game up fairly quickly, with a little coaching during play, which fulfils ones enjoyment of the game of petanque even more. We do play to rule, but our main aim is to enjoy this wonderful game, make friends and enjoy our surroundings. Our Club participates in local and regional petanque events, and play home and away games with other local and regional Petanque clubs, some members are affiliated to Petanque England and Regional leagues, but all enjoy the social aspect of playing within our club setting.
Maldon Petanque Club is affiliated to Petanque England & Eastern Counties regional Petanque
Our club members do play on this public terrain on some Sundays and during weekdays, with correspondence via a club "Whatsapp" page. Play terrain is open to the elements, so in inclement weather conditions, play may be cancelled or moved to another day.
Via this Website and anyone enjoying Maldon Promenades picturesque and tranquil surroundings, we as a club hope to to encourage new members to our club. So please do not hesitate in contacting one of us to arrange a taster session or to give the game of Petanque ago ...
PETANQUE BASICS
Petanque is played with hollow steel balls known as boules, and a small wooden target ball or jack. The game is usually played on a gravel-topped terrain at least 12m long, but this need not to be a purpose-built area and petanque can be played informally on many other types of surface, such as a sandy beach..
Games can be played as either:
· Singles: Two individual players, each with 3 boules;
· or Doubles: Two teams of two players, with 3 boules per player;
· or Triples: Two teams of three players, with 2 boules per player
Boules are supplied in sets of three, all with identical markings called striations. These help to identify each player’s boules during a game.
HOW TO PLAY A GAME
1. The two teams toss a coin to decide who starts first.
2. A player from the starting team draws a circle on the ground and then, standing with both feet in the circle, throws the target jack out to a distance of 6 to 10 meters.
3. The starting team’s player then throws their first boule, trying to get it close to the jack.
4. Next, a player from the second team stands in the circle and tries to get their boule closer to the jack than the opposing team. They can do this simply throwing their boule so it ends up closer; or by knocking into the opposing team’s boule and moving it away.
5. If that team succeeds in getting their boule closer than all of its opponents boules, then the opposing team now has to attempt to throw a boule closer.
6. The team which does not have the closest boule to the jack after each throw, keeps throwing their boules until either they get closest, or they run out of boules to throw, at which point it is the other team’s turn to play.
7. When all boules from both teams have been thrown, that is the conclusion of an ‘end’. Points are awarded for each boule that is closer to the jack than the other team’s closest boule, and these points are are added to the running score. That is, if team A has two of its boules closer to the jack than opposing team’s closest boule, then team A gets two points added to their score and is said to have ‘won the end’.
8. The team who won the previous end, starts the next one by drawing a circle around the current position of the jack and using that as the starting position.
9. Play continues in this way until one team reaches 13 points, at which point they have won the game. There is no limit on the number of ends that can be played in a game.
TIPS AND TERMINOLOGY
· Boules are usually thrown underarm with the palm facing down, and lobbed through the air rather than rolled along the ground. This technique is not specifically required by the rules, but it allows the use of backspin and gives better control of the boule.
· A prefabricated plastic ‘ring’ can be used to stand in as an alternative to drawing a circle on the ground
· To ‘point‘ is to throw a boule so that it stops close to the jack
· To ‘shoot‘ is to hit an opponent’s boule out of the way, or move it further from the jack
· There are no rules restricting which members of a team can point or shoot, but often players specialise in one or other of these skills, and so refer to themselves as a ‘pointer‘ or a ‘shooter‘
· Cochonnet (or ‘coche’) is an informal name for the jack, from the French ‘little pig’.
· To be ‘Fannied‘ is to lose a game without scoring any points – i.e. 0 : 13
You'll find us in-between Mrs Salisbury's "Lovelyness" & Rossi Ice cream`s "scrumptious delights" within Maldon Promenade Park,
There is plenty of parking within the park, (local fees apply). And seasonal free parking locally, which is within
walking distance to Maldon Petanque Terrain.
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