![]() If it feels natural, bend your right knee slightly.This will make it easier to get your right hand a bit higher behind you. As you do this, lean forward slightly.You want a nice high backswing so that gravity will help you pull the boule through your swing. Have your right arm raised high behind you - parallel to the ground if you can. This is the motion that you will use for the backswing and the throw.ĭon’t start your swing with your right arm pointing down toward the ground. Keep your right arm straight - it really should move like a pendulum. Keeping your left arm behind you, swing your right arm from the shoulder, backward and forward, like a pendulum. (This is the backswing part of the throw.) Similarly, if you find yourself lifting your left foot off of the ground behind you when you throw, that’s a sign that you aren’t using your left arm properly, and you’re raising your left leg to try to provide the balance that your left arm should be providing. If you find yourself almost losing your balance, and leaning forward or almost falling forward when you throw your boule, that is a sign that you aren’t keeping your left arm up and back and using it as a balance. You can lean a bit forward, and bring your right arm forward as you throw the boule, and you will not lose your balance or fall forward. When your left arm is up and back, it gives you balance. Keep it there, behind you, while you swing your right arm and throw the boule, which we will describe in the next step. Swing it back, behind your torso, and hold it there. ![]() If you’re left-handed, just reverse the words “right” and “left” wherever you see them. In this discussion, we assume that you throw with your right hand. The steps in the mental game are: M1 Plan The steps in the physical game are: P1 Feet Pass 2 covers the “mental game” – three mental activities performed as part of the throwing process.Pass 1 covers the “physical game” – seven activities involved in physically throwing a boule.We call our method the 7+3 method because we teach it in two passes. After that we offer a few suggestions for how a trainer should conduct a training class. First, we describe the steps in roughly the same way that a trainer might describe them to a student. After mastering these fundamentals, the player can then go on to adapt them to different situations, and to evolve his own personal style. We teach the beginning player how to perform those steps, in sequence. Our approach is to treat the act of throwing a boule as a sequence of simple activities, or steps. We’ve been working on a method for teaching new players the fundamentals of throwing a petanque boule. Teaching new players how to throw a boule Alternatively, you can print the PDF version. PRINTING TIPS: Before printing this page from your browser, CLICK HERE and wait until you see that your browser has finished loading the cover picture for the video (so your browser can send the cover picture to your printer).
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