BROOKLYN BOULE: May 2007

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

GUESTBOOK

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Starting off the "Brooklyn Boule Junior", Lilly has her first set of "Obut Junior", as well as another set, to play willing opponents. Hopefully starting them off young will provide Brooklyn with the finest Boule players in America.

MICHAEL IN MCCARREN PARK TRYING TO SAVE HIMSELF FROM BEING "FANNYED"

It didn't work...... but came through in the next game.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

McCarren Park 360º

BRUCE, BRUCE AND BRUCE......

ANOTHER LOVELY AFTERNOON IN THE PARK BRUCE GETS FANNYED, BRUCE HAS NEW BOULE AND BRUCE PLAYS BETTER THAN EVER.....

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

you can play in all weather!

check out this article from the BBC....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/sport/features/petanque.shtml

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Bastille Day last year (2006)

I'm Excited .......... truck loads!!

GET EXCITED!!!

JUST 73 days until bastille day. GO TEAM BROOKLYN BOULE!!!!!
See you at Bar Tabac.

Pétanque

The sublime game, of French/Belgian decent, played world wide has now found it's way to North Brooklyn under the shade of three oak trees in McCarren Park williamsburg/Greenpoint. As in resent years the popularity, good press and not to mention the Bastille Day Bar Tabac Petanque tournament has opened a lot of eyes to the joy of Petanque. There are of course places to play in Manhattan and clubs to join, but time has come for some Brooklyn Boule. In McCarren park there are Bocce courts next to the running track but alas it's surface is not suited (in my opinion) to Petanque, as well as feeling like your playing in a coal bunker. So to the trees we go, three beautiful American Oak trees ( now more, thanks to the all the groups and support for the park), are nestled in the mid-south east of the park. The trees cover an area large enough for one game and there is a another, that is in the light at night, shade by day and lit in the eve. They are NOT perfect "pistes" or man-made courts, but challenging patches of playable surface, so hard to find in our beautifully manicured urban city parks. To share the surrounding areas with such activities as Baseball, Kickball, Frisbees, kites and boomerangs; and on the odd occasion Medieval Sword Fighting. Only enhances the communal aspect of park life and the people around us.
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I have started this blog to create some interest and hope that players of all levels can embrace the idea of playing in Brooklyn, maybe leading to having our own "Washington Square like Petanque Piste".

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