Improving your petanque shooting

Many players actually make it more difficult for themselves to play a good boule.  An example was seen a couple of weeks ago. A keen player was seen doing the following. This is true, Honest! A shot is required. The player walks to the circle and stands two feet behind the circle facing the target boule. Looks down at the circle and steps into it. Looks down at his feet and rolls the boule in his hand preparing to throw. Still looking down at the ground in front of the circle. Gets into a positive frame of mind, gets into the zone. Feels the boule in the hand and gets a great balanced position. Then as the arm comes back the player looks up and brings their arm forward to hit the boule. Total time looking at the ground 30 seconds. Total time looking at the target boule 3 seconds. I never saw the player hit a boule in 15 attempts.    Now maybe the player was having an off day and this bizarre procedure normally works. The question the team and the player should ask is. Why are you making it so hard for yourself?  An old git like me knows the older you are the longer it takes to adjust your eye focus distance. I know most players over 40 need to look at the target boule to gauge its distance for at least 10 seconds. That is a medical fact. As you get older your distance focus slows so you need to take a little extra time to look at an object. As petanque is a distance gauging sport I think most players, no matter how young they are need longer than 3 seconds to focus.  If the player had walked out the distance maybe I could have understood. No, this example is not a criticism but you know who you are and you need to work on the throwing action. The point is that most players drift into silly little quirks and if it works one day they will add the different sections into almost a ritual.