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Week 4 of the journal takes the work onto the piste. Practice is where a habit is built; a match is where you find out whether it survives contact. These articles follow that move in order: what changes when the game does, how to give a drill something to be right about, and what to do with the boule that missed. Read them in order the first time; after that, each stands on its own.
- Drill Make the Miss Useful A simple pétanque training drill to test whether your seven-metre practice still holds up when the distance or shot changes.
- Deeper dive Week 4: Play - Does Your Throw Arrive When the Game Changes? Practice gives you another boule. Week 4 asks what remains of your routine when the score tightens and the first attempt has to count.
- Research Give the Drill a Target Before You Throw How a clear, achievable target and useful feedback can turn a vague pétanque drill into information you can retain.
- Drill One Boule, One Chance A solo pétanque drill. Three pictures, one boule at each, then change them. Read, choose, commit, throw and move on without a repeat throw.
- Drill Where Do You Want the Boule to Finish? A doubles match changed how I think about where a point should finish. What happened, and a pétanque drill to try it yourself.
- Research A Constraint Needs a Job Make petanque practice purposeful. Choose constraints that change one problem, separate difficulty from pressure, and try the Change One Thing drill.
- Research When Teammates Want Different Shots When pétanque teammates see different shots, help the player holding the boule feel settled with the choice and supported before they throw.
Play is Week 4 of the printed journal's six-week cycle.
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