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Subject: hi there Author: Christoph [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 01:31:00 05/28/03 Wed Hi Martin. I´m Christoph from Berlin/Germany. I play Pétanque for nearly one year now. And after this time - others warned me about - the game can be very frustrating. In the beginning I had no fear to point a boule to long/to short, I just threw it with the power which I thought will be enough to come close to the cochonet. I didn´t think about where to hit the surface, how much backspin would be useful and which curve the boule should describe before touching the ground (and the results weren´t that bad). Now, after one year of playing a lot (3 to 4 times a week) and knowing what is tactically possible I´m often confused because the results to my playing ideas seem to come true only very occasionally. That leeds me to reconfigure my techniques of pointing/shooting over and over again, what can be very frustrating because the new techniques aren´t so automised like the way I threw the boules before. The good players always tell me not to be so focussed on the result and not to be frustrated when I couldn´t transpose my idea (but to try it again and again). But I´m not so relaxed like them after a hole in shooting for example. But being relaxed and concentrated seems to be the most important requirement for good Pétanque playing. So it´s not so easy at the moment but I love this game to much to give up my ideas of playing the way I dream of. And the rare days where nearly everything works out now appear more often. Greetings from Berlin Christoph P.S. : Excuse my bad English (where is this goddam dictionary !!!) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]