A petanque field trip in California

A great way to expose kids to petanque. A school field trip with the Lamorinda Petanque Club in California. (More photos are available at the club’s Smugmug web page.)

EducNaute-Infos: a French youth petanque website

The French web site Educnaute-Infos is run by the Association EDUCNAUTE-INFOS, an organization of educators whose goal is to promote pétanque and jeu provençal among France’s young people. You can read it HERE, or translated into English by Google Translate HERE.

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Dylan Rocher: youth petanque teacher

Dylan Rocher is teaching the kids in Draguignan.

CIEP support for youth petanque

The CIEP — Centre International d’Enseignement Petangue— is the International Center for Teaching Petanque. Basically, it is the training arm of the FIPJP.

It offers training classes for young people, and classes for teaching people how to become petanque coaches.

Its products include materials to support a petanque course for young people. The materials include a free, downloadable pdf booklet that lays out 86 training exercises. The course uses a kit of training devices — plastic hoops and stands and so forth — and the kits are also for sale.

For more information about the CIEP and its youth petanque training materials, see the CIEP page on the All About Petanque web site.

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Some CIEP Youth Training Materials

• French http://www.ciepetanque.org/accueil/index.html
• English http://www.ciepetanque.com/home/index.html
• French http://www.ciepetanque.org/telechargement/index.html
• http://www.ciepetanque.org/albumphoto/index.html – video of training in Japan

 

English Petanque Association Youth Development program

The English Petanque Association (EPA) has a youth development program, which is described on http://www.englishpetanque.org.uk/youthdev.html

Junior Petanque in Australia

Around 2005 Australia experienced a wave of interest in petanque and the establishment of Junior Petanque programs. They even created an organization and a website devoted to Junior Petanque.

A useful resource on that website is a 30-page brochure called Promoting and Developing Junior Petanque: Guidelines for Volunteers. It covers a lot of areas, including insuring volunteers, privacy issues involved with photographing children, and much more. It can be downloaded HERE or our archived copy is HERE.

French youth training video

This YouTube video (in French) shows a youth petanque training course prepared and conducted by the FFPJP, the French national petanque federation.

Janet Kirtland’s Petanque For Kids

Janet Kirtland is running a Petanque For Kids program in Portland, Oregon.

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