The club meets twice a week at the Lafayette Community Center Pétanque Field, 480 St. Mary's Road in Lafayette. All are welcome to come. It's fun for the children too.
| Fridays | at 6:30 pm |
| Sundays | at 3:00 pm during Daylight Saving Time at 1:00 pm during the rest of the year |
Hard at work?? Preparing the fields for the 2009 National Doubles Tournaments, 25 and 26 July.
The word pétanque comes from pés tanqué, which means feet together. This is the required stance when playing pétanque. The game of pétanque is a variation of boules and is perhaps the sport that is closest to French hearts.
Pétanque is traditionally played with metallic balls on a dirt or gravel surface. The object of the game is to throw your balls, usually with a somewhat of an arched back-spin, so that they land closer to the small object ball (cochonnet) than those of your opponent. To achieve this you may try to land yours closest to the cochonnet, called pointing, or try to knock the opponents ball away, called shooting. You can also try to knock the cochonnet so that it is away from the opponents balls or closer to yours. Usually, a team will consist of at least one pointer and one shooter. The first team to reach 13 points wins the game.