Week 04 · Play

Play.

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.

Read in order
  1. Drill Make the Miss Useful 16 July 2026 · 5 min A simple pétanque training drill to test whether your seven-metre practice still holds up when the distance or shot changes.
  2. Deeper dive Week 4: Play - Does Your Throw Arrive When the Game Changes? 21 July 2026 · 8 min Practice gives you another boule. Week 4 asks what remains of your routine when the score tightens and the first attempt has to count.
  3. Research Give the Drill a Target Before You Throw 21 July 2026 · 8 min How a clear, achievable target and useful feedback can turn a vague pétanque drill into information you can retain.
  4. Drill One Boule, One Chance 24 August 2026 · 7 min A solo pétanque drill. Three pictures, one boule at each, then change them. Read, choose, commit, throw and move on without a repeat throw.
  5. Drill Where Do You Want the Boule to Finish? 4 September 2026 · 5 min A doubles match changed how I think about where a point should finish. What happened, and a pétanque drill to try it yourself.

Play is Week 4 of the printed journal's six-week cycle.

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