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Monday, June 30, 2008

Sacramento petanque on CBS-13

Sacramento's TV station CBS13 came out for a live report on the big six-tournament weekend at Club Francais de Sacramento , May 17/18 last.

CBS13 - Petanque Championship - 4:20min


Tom, eloquent as always, uses the very appropriate badminton/tennis analogy to reply to the eternal bocce vs petanque question.
I usually present it the other way round though: pétanque being to bocce what badminton is to tennis.
Why? You can play petanque almost anywhere, within minutes, and the rules are simple. Like badminton. Whereas tennis (like bocce) requires a prepared court - not a common thing in people's backyards - , and the rules are more intricate.


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