No need to wait for sunny days to bring out the pétanque balls and the jack. Today, you can play almost where you want, when you want. It will be with mini balls, on specially designed tables, like the Baby Pétanque created by Ludovic Narejos.
A little “wet” today despite the summer season? No problem. If you want to share a moment of conviviality between friends around a good game of petanque, you can also turn to its mini version!
Baby Petanquefor example, designed by Ludovic Narejos, consists of a wooden table and a synthetic coating to cushion small balls.
The advantage: you can install these tables anywhere, and therefore play anytime.
The idea hit me right away!
Ideas sometimes come at unexpected times. It is while shopping Ludovic Narejosan entrepreneur from the Lyon region, discovers mini petanque balls:
“There was no structure at the time to really play petanque, other than on the floor or on the carpet, so I started creating tables suitable for playing this game.”
After the construction of a 1st prototype, this project has “burst like evidence” to the point of wondering why this type of table did not exist “for 20 years”.
3 models, 3 moods
The 30-something then took it into his head to design three different tables to meet various uses. From this reflection, were born:
- the entry-level Nomad;
- the Premium and the Master for the most demanding.
If the first is foldable and easily transportable, the following ones, much more massive, are equipped with luminous devices and channels of recovery of the balls eliminated to return towards the players.
It reminds you of table football or billiards ? It’s normal.
An alternative to traditional bar games
For Ludovic Narejosits Baby Pétanques are intended for the greatest number of people, regardless of age and gender, while particularly targeting petanque lovers, leisure and conviviality. In summary: those who appreciate good times “with friends, with family”.
This means that his tables can be of interest to many places bringing together the public: “Bars, restaurants, seminar venues, break rooms in companies, social centers, campsites, and even nursing homes, etc.
The goal is not to compete with existing bar games, but to offer a new offer
Mini petanque, but real rules
Despite its size, Baby Petanque is not practiced with less serious rules than traditional pétanque. “They are the same !” confirmed Ludovic Narejos which only reminds that the ball must be released before the hand passes over the table, and that it must “always stay below the elbow“.
For the rest, you can use the same jargon. Whether it’s “you shoot or you point?” or “square” or “fanny”, pétanque enthusiasts will not be disoriented.
And above all, the most important rule, and which does not change: the first to reach 13 points wins!
Learn more
The official website to know everything about Baby Pétanque
Special thanks to Docks 40 in Lyon for hosting the Baby Pétanque video shoot.
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