> bocce is the ultimate... <
I saw a video on YouTube maybe a year ago. An old man was playing bocce against a young buck. The old guy kept overshooting the pallino (the white target ball). It was kinda sad.
Then with his last ball, the old guy knocked the pallino smack in the middle of his previously-thrown balls.
Brilliant!
That’s what I’m talking about. That is a much more obvious move in pétanque. It takes skill though because it’s a much smaller and heavier ball to throw. You can toss it high, underhanded, with backspin etc. Usually it’s played on a slightly harder dirt surface, but a bocce court will work. I used to play it a lot. Went to a park last summer and they had the bocce courts. We brought our pétanque sets and one of the older guys who was the neighborhood’s designated bocce court manager (a retired guy) was raking the courts. He has never seen pétanque and was fascinated. He opened the shed and brought out the bocce balls because neither of us had played the other game. Bocce is the Italian version (or pétanque is the French version) of the same game/rules/court. The equipment is a little different but the same rules more or less.