THE XMAS ALL THETALK TALK OF THE OF THE IN TERRAINTERRAIN THE CIRCLE Follow us on This newsletter is also Edition No 12 available on our website @ JsyPetanque www.thejpa.co.uk December 2018 Jersey’s world cup wonders They couldn’t have had a tougher start – drawn against France, the eventual winners of the World Triples Championship - but the Jersey team have returned from Canada with their heads held high. The Jersey trio, Matt Buesnel, Mark Nicol Have you seen our opponents in the first round? and Matt Pinel played really well and proved that they can perform on the world The level of the competition was much lot and we will take away that knowledge stage but they do realise there is some way stronger than the European to aid our development with a view to to go before they can compete at the very championships.” further improvement in future highest level. competitions.” “However the team handled themselves Team manager, Michel Morel, said: “I’m extremely well and made most of their See special report by James Rondel on really pleased with the team’s performance. matches competitive. We have learned a the page 7 They think it’s all over. It is now! Inside:Inside: a two a page Christmastwo page special, includingChristmas … Spot… thespecialincluding: VIP boules player In the Circle’s including: festive gift guide We’ve all been there. The moment you know you’ve missed with your last The Xmas caption competition boule and the game is won and lost. And for St Saviour it was a moment to savour. They were parish champions for the first time. Full report on Page 11. Michel Morel’s terrain teaser The ground rules A regular series in which Elaine Paisnel looks at some of the laws of At least there was no argument about which way to head from the Vic in the Valleygame carthat park, can leadAt least to there was no argument about which way to head from the Vic in the Valley car park, misunderstandings. PUTTING YOUR FOOT IN IT The Coach Tossing the cochonnet is an important to land. This way you have a target throw in any game, but one that is not which helps you to judge the distance. regarded as such by many players. How often do you see a player carrying on a It also helps if your partner looks at the conversation and just 'chuck' the little kind of area you want the cochonnet to ball without even a glance as to where it occupy - thick gravel, thin bare patch or ends up? Putting the cochonnet where among the stones - but where you want you want it is one advantage you should it and at a distance that suits your team. not undervalue. Some teams get the shooter to throw the The rules concerning the but, jack, cochonnet so that he or she can get the bouchon, cochonnet, petite or whatever distance they are comfortable shooting you want to call it are clear and precise. at. Other teams, ones perhaps with a A situation arose in a recent parish match Its size must be 30mm. The weight less competent shooter, play long so when a ‘shot’ boule was stopped by between 10 and 18 grams and a wooden that the opposition shooter has a more someone’s foot. This meant it remained painted one must not capable of being difficult shot. on the playing area and did not go ‘out of picked up by a magnet. You will find bounds’. cochonnets made of composite or If your opponents throw the cochonnet Now, the important thing to establish synthetic materials that can be picked too long or too short then grab the up by a magnet. These, however, are opportunity and place the cochonnet here is “whose foot was it?” generally too heavy. On the other hand where you want it. Too often people If the foot belonged to an umpire or plastic cochonnets tend to be too light. just pick up the cochonnet and drop it spectator (who should not have been on without thinking. Treat it as if you had the playing area!) it stays where it is. Please check the cochonnet before the honour of the throw. Place it at the If the foot belonged to a member of the taking part in any competition. One distance you want and place it precisely team who had played the boule, it is dead other aspect of the composite or where you want it. Often the cochonnet and is taken out of the game. synthetic cochonnet: according to the is thrown too long because they wanted Now for the interesting bit: rules if it floats in water it is considered it long or too short because they wanted when a boule shot, or hit, is stopped or dead. The composite one sinks! The it short. Do not do what your opponents deviated accidentally by an opposing reason these rules apply is to ensure that want - do what you want. player, their opponents have options as the cochonnets respond and react in a follows: consistent and regular manner. If the cochonnet is thrown too long or 1) leave it where it stopped; too short the opponents are supposed to 2) place it on the extension of a line which Back to the importance of throwing the place it within the six to ten metres starts from the original position it occupied cochonnet. Firstly watch the run and allowed. If they place it outside those to its stopping point, but only on the roll of the thrown cochonnet. Although limits (this does happen) then a tape playable area and only on condition that it it weighs only one twentieth of the measure should be employed to weight of a boule it will give you a clue establish the nearest legal limit. had been marked. as to which way the ground goes and Article 20 of the FIPJP rules applies. therefore the way your boule will roll. For example if it is too long then once AND FINALLY (and this happens now and Learn to throw the cochonnet so that the ten metre limit is established then then) you can control it. There are several the cochonnet is placed at ten metres. Sometimes players, maybe when checking ways but one good technique is to hold Too short then the cochonnet is placed positions of boules by the cochonnet, it between the index and ring finger at six metres. accidently kick or step on boules which with the thumb and middle finger top have been played. In this case, their and bottom. Curl the wrist and launch it Whatever approach you take please opponents can, according to the wishes of high. consider the throwing of the cochonnet the player whose boule was moved, replay as an important, integral part of the it or leave where it came to rest. It is a good idea to get a playing partner teams tactics. Another example of how important it is to to stand where you want the cochonnet mark boules and cochonnets in games! The Coach Fanny feast at Liberation CLATTER hands of Lady Luck – this year the number was up to t least there was no argument& about which way to head from the Vic in the Valley car22. park, One At of least them was a there was no argument about which way to head from the Vic in the Valley car park, double fanny, awarded for only the third time in the CHATTER club’s history, to players that hit rock bottom twice in one game. What was remarkable however was the identity of the pair that suffered the bum note twice at the hands of Boules blitz ends knife rampage Dave Ibitson and Matt Ryan … none other than Andrew Liberation Pétanque Club’s Bellamy-Burt and Callum Stewart. However they were awards evening in October turned out to be a fanny fiesta. quick to point out they The previous season just three themselves had handed out certificates were awarded to three fanny certificates to players who’d suffered at the opponents. for GUERNSEY Canadian comms successOPEN A knife attack in a Paris Street around 20 people chasing him ended when the assailant was and they started throwing pelted with boules by people boules at him. Four of five hit playing pétanque on a nearby him on the head.” Seven people terrain. Eye-witness Youssef were injured including two Najah said he was walking British tourists. The knifeman alongside the Ourcq canal was an Afghan but police have The incredible success of our live-streaming of the Home Nations when he saw a man running ruled out terrorism as a motive was repeated when we broadcasted live from Canada. Thanks to with a knife. “There were for the attack. the excellent commentary provided by James Rondel we had no less than 20,000 visits to the JPA Facebook page during the week of the World Triples, many of them from places all over the Silence, s’il vous plait world, some of them with names in totally baffling scripts. Gill’s the gaffer Friends reunited Visitors to the JPA Facebook page may have seen the heart-rending appeal by a lost and lonely boule. It was seeking two A French mayor has taken the drastic step of banning pétanque friends for a threesome after during the early hours due to the 'noise pollution' he says the Gill Blampied is the new captain having been mislaid. The players are causing. Unlike in Jersey where nightfall tends to put a at Jersey Pétanque Club.