Petanque tips continued Shooting Fast exit!

Shooting Cont….

Fast Exit

We have all seen this happen. The shooter takes on a shot. Hits the target boule and then the smile disappears from his / her face as the target boule crashes into another in the head. The opposition are still holding and the attacking team have to play again. Why does this happen? Well, many players shoot with a total disregard to a simple fact. When you shoot and hit the target boule but do not carreau you will have two boule moving at great speed within the head. As mentioned earlier, you see a boule shot out and as it goes it either takes out your closest boule to the jack or carreau’s it making the opposition still holding the closest boule and the shot almost wasted. Not totally tactically wasted as the boule shot is now further away from the jack. It could give your pointer with boule left an opportunity to point in. It is not good news as any boule you play should make the opposition play. It should not make you play two boule one after each other unless the opposition are out of boule. Bad luck can happen when shooting but can you really decide which way the boule is going to go after you hit it? Well, you could try and hit the target boule on the side and the target boule will go out of the head at approx. 45 degrees from the side of impact and your boule will exit the head at the opposite 45 degree angle.

Hit it on the side!!!!!!!!!!! I have enough trouble hitting the boule at all!!! I understand your concern but as you have seen over the pointing series, all comes with practice. A spot carreau happens when you hit the boule directly in the centre give or take half an inch and given boule are 3 inches in diameter you have a large area to play with, No, seriously.