CIEP Training
Have you ever wondered how to improve your petanque game?
We often try to imitate others in a perpetual search for the right gesture and an endless strive for consistency.
Since 1998, French coaches at CIEP have refined a method approved by FIPJP (Fédération Internationale de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal).
They will teach this method in English at Lamorinda, to a maximum of 30 registered players, October 24-26.
This training will cover the fundamentals and detailed instructions of the method, adapted for various skill levels. You will apply and practice these gestures with hands-on guidance and through various exercises. Each participant will be videotaped prior to and at the end of the training. The videos will allow you to analyze your gestures and will be sent to you with individualized feedback for continued training on your own.
Frazer's testimony (he took the course last year):
What were they going to teach me to make me a better player?
The answer is that they teach a method. It’s not tricks nor adjustments to how one currently plays, but a series of steps and concepts that one can employ methodically and consistently. I came away realizing that I’d been thinking about it all wrong, and that my good days and bad days were owed to a lack of methodology and consistency (even though I thought I was being consistent). Before, my shooting was all over the map — some days I’d shoot 10%, and some days I’d shoot 70%. Now I consistently shoot 50% or better because I know the form, and I know how to get myself into the zone I need to be in to play well. I owe that to CIEP. In pointing they helped me realize that I need to be playing the donnée and not the cochonnet. That adjustment is a longer and slower one for me, but it is starting to turn the corner to making my pointing more consistent, if not yet better.
Key Components of Training Curriculum
Method presentation
Training session procedures
Specific warm-up exercises
Correct body posture
Adaptation to playing techniques
Balancing and using the pendulum concept
Boule handling
Sensory awareness
Analyzing pendulum speed
Personalized gesture advice
Practical application segments
Personalized end of training assessment 1
Coaches
Claude Raluy
Claude is the founder and President of the CIEP, and the author of the most comprehensive book about pétanque appropriately named " Pétanque " (published by EPA). Claude is well-known in the world of petanque and has participated in 24 French Championships (which means he was a Champion or Vice-Champion of his region). He was the Individual Paris Champion numerous times and doubles Champion Ile of France of Petanque and Provencal Game. He was also the winner of many national competitions. Claude has established instructional partnerships through CIEP with Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, Indonesia, Central Europe, Andorra, Africa, and the US. He designed the CIEP method for the training of all players and supported the preparation of national teams for the following countries: Bénin, Sweden, Ukraine, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Claude is also the creator of the concept "Indoor or Flexible Boules" and the accompanying educational booklet.
Petr “Pierre” Fuksa
Petr is an international trainer and the President of CIEP Central Europe. Petr was a Czech Republic Champion in Triples (2015, 2016 and 2020), Vice-Champion of Triples (2021) and Doubles (2017). He is the author of Pétanque Online School and a certified trainer of International Pétanque Federation F.I.P.J.P. of the highest third degree - the only one in Central Europe. Petr has provided individual and team trainings in France, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, and the U.S. He has presented the rules of pétanque on Czech TV Nova and published articles in Planete Boules , the most popular world pétanque magazine.
