A lot of people will be asking “why are you doing a video on this sport when you said you wouldn’t?” Well … I’ve been watching a lot of French TV and films in French to brush up on my multi-linguistic skills. Been watching a lot of Pétanque games online and never realized that it’s incredibly popular in France. To be honest, it’s actually a really good sport to watch! Hence the video.
This pretty much sums up my Ninh Ly watching experience over the years: See a video in my notifications about a sport that I've never heard of Watch the entire thing, enjoying it immensely Spend the next few days obsessively watching matches of said sport Thank Ninh for his amazing and criminally underrated channel, and for introducing me to sports that I never would have heard of otherwise Thank you Ninh
As a french viewer, I can insure you it's pretty popular, especially on vacation during summer, and extremely popular in the south of france, because it was born there and almost every village has a "boulodrome" on which you can play a game. Even in villages up north in france you can still find a boulodrome. Pétanque is basically the unofficial french national sport.
@@NinhLyUK ça demande pas mal de dextérité, surtout en prenant les distances officielles. Lancer une boule de 800g à 8 ou 9m avec précision n'est pas facile, et un petit cailloux peu devenir votre pire ennemie si vous tombez dessus.
I laughed so much when I saw the explanation of "FANNY". In the middle of a "formal" explanation of a game rules, knowing that one point of the rule is to kiss the arse of a girl named "Fanny" is hilarious ! It is sooooooo French ! I know, I'm one of them from the South of France. If I had had to explain the rule, I would not have dared saying it as it is more a "tradition" than a rule but coming from an English speaking person, I love it ! You made my day ! I had never thought of the picture. Now I'm going to make one and will use next time I fplay with my friends. Thanks for the great idea ! Lots of fun ahead
He's been uploading to another channel called Ultimate Bucket list. ruclips.net/channel/UCHMVJvXh_HqAwJo9Fo7BSYQ Check it out he makes good content on there. He's taken tours of various stadiums, and gone to various tourist destinations.
this is the best garden game ever. It doesn't require great physical fitness, but it's a lot of fun. I bought the first set 10 years ago, prepared a field in the garden and it started. Whenever guests come, we play, have a barbecue and play. My parents who are older play. sometimes the neighbors come over and they also like to play something much better than bowling. It's worth trying - great entertainment for family and groups of friends.
mr ninh, watching my second clip of yours confirms what i wrote of the first viewing of yours that you do have a enjoyable talent in providing quality content.
Love your sport videos, probably the best explanations of the net, hopefully we'll one day see a video on Jugger(both "Juggers of the Wasteland" & Collegiate rules)
@@NinhLyUK omg, thank you!!! I only say add Jugger of Wasteland rules because the two rule sets can best be seen as JoW rules = Normal (American)Football, Collegiate = Flag/Tag (American)Football
In Argentina old and retired people play this game, with the only variation in you must make the boules (bochas) roll, instead of throw it through the air. And you can play from any place of your half of the pitch
Got to play this for a while when I was in high school French class... I was actually quite good at it! some of my classmates never got the hang of it... Wish this video was around then, Nihn!
I'm trying to do the same as you Christine. Any way you can let me know your progress in relation to building the Piste? Projected size of Terrain, Materials used and overall cost. Thanks in advance.
Very fun to play, if you never tried it you should give it a try one day, its like one of those games you play with friends the weekend a beer in hand before the barbecue
The name of the sport was derived from words in the provençal dialect meaning anchored foot. The inventor of the game was a bocce player who became arthritic. As a bocce required a run up to bowl, he created a new game where the boule was to be delivered with feet planted on the ground.
"Pétanque" comes from the southern France patois (occitan) : "PÈ" meaning "feet" and "TANCAR", verb meaning "stIck, fix". Meaning that both feet must remain still when playing.
Bocce allows the player to take steps in the delivery. Pétanque requires the player to have both feet within a 0.5-meter diameter circle and part of both feet should remain in contact with the ground inside the circle.
This is the game in the opening scene of the classic Dennis Rodman and Dane Cook action thriller "Simon Sez". Which itself was a sequel to the Movie "Double Team" starring JCVD and Dennis Rodman. I always knew it was called Boules but never even had a sniff of a clue of the other term/name Pétanque. Looks like you just taught an old dog a new trick Sir! Kudos!
@@NinhLyUK You're welcome. Hopefully ya like it. If ya ever need any possibly obscure movie info in future, I would be more than happy to help if I can. Again ... love the channel Sir!
You just earned a new subscirber. Love you chanel and i suddnelly got more intrested in sports by watching your videos . Everything is perfectly explained and you give real informations . Do you mind doing a Video about Equstrian ShowJumping / Dressage / Eventing ( one of these 3) they are most popular horse-related sport yet a lot of diffrend chanels are saying diffrend things . (Sorry for bad spelling i'm not native Engish/American )
You are one of the best channels on RUclips I hope you continue on this and I learned new sports from you Is It possible to make video About The ( Road Tennis rule ) 🌹Thank you for your beautiful videos 👍
Can you please make a new video explaining the rules of Carrom? My kids would really like that. Thank you very much for all your sports rules explained videos.
Thanks to make so perfect video and let us know its rule, history, but i am thinking we must play it ourselves then can know the rules totally, now we just knew a little or rough about its rule. But i will watch your video always.
I live in Scotland and we've got a petanque club nearby. Next time I see a game in process I'm going to shout 'FANNY' at the players and see what reaction I get.
Good on ya for getting another sports explanation video in.. Regarding the Fanny bit.. I’m glad you have to buy the winner or winning team drinks compared to butt kissing.. After all, being light a few bucks is hell of a lot more preferable than public humiliation!!
I came here after seeing the Google doodle for this game. I've grown up only knowing Bocce, and Pentaque looks just as fun! I would love to throw down in this sport.
Indonesia has similar game, but with much smaller arena and use much smaller resin ball which is like pinball. We call it keléréng. Malaysia also have the game, but I don't remember what's its name in Malaysia
I want to add thay Pétanque features in the wonderful video game Disco Elysium. The player character can pick up a ball off the ground, and his interior physical strength encourages him to throw it like a baseball. Should it succeed, the ball is violently (but superbly) thrown into the ocean. Little did the player know that the ball was actually a boule, and that he had just disrupted two elderly men's Pétanque game. He must now find a replacement. Funny thing is, should his strength fail, the protagonist's throw would be perfect in the context of Pétanque!
I thought the episode was terrible. Tired, repetitive, predictable and we all know it's scripted, but it's scripted way too much that it's obviously fake. At least with the older Top Gear episodes, you had some semblance that this all actually happened. Amazon really need to cut their losses on this one.
@@NinhLyUK I didn’t think it was their best either but I still enjoyed it. I watch mostly for their sarcasm though. This episode was super scripted, but it feels more like it is meant to be like one of those cheesy movie-ish specials they used to do than one of their standard ones. The year of waiting and anticipation really didn’t help either.
Im petty sure I had played this or something very similiar when I was a kid (Is a dane and had living in Denmark for most of my life so far) But I never understood how it is played until now
@@NinhLyUK Yeah, but it is more I remember to had played a game with balls like those where we had to underhand throw them at a smaller thing XD I just never understood how it works, but I can see it now
Just to make sure, three questions: 1) Does a dead boule leave the entire match? 2) What if the only side with boules left to throw, knocks the jack out of play? 3) If we score no points and we dont know of a lady called "Fanny" but do know of one called "Bottom"...what should we kiss?
My stepfather had a doberman who died just before he met my mother, and you know, the doberman was playing with petanque balls XD It was his favorite toys and he managed to pierce holes in it with his teeth. We had hard time believing it until we get to his house to take his things when he moved with us, he found the balls, with clear dog teeth marks in it, it's impressive.
That all depends on how you look at it. It also depends who's does their martial art better. You will find Wing Chun techniques in JKD, as Bruce Lee was trained in this at a young age. But the philosophy of "learn what is useful, discard what is useless" will be different for everyone.
I actually learnt about this game actually from this cartoon called Oggy et les cafards (Oggy and the Cockroaches) which is popular in India. Heck I didn't even realise it was a French cartoon but damn the good old days, that cartoon was the most French thing ever.
Hi Ninh! Not long ago I was introduced to the backyard game “Bottle Bash” (otherwise known as “Polish Horseshoes”) and I had a great time. I hope you would cover that soon, considering you have already covered cornhole, another backyard game
Hiya ninh I saw you at old Trafford for a glazers our protest and did a short interview I was worsening if you could let me know when I will see this video on one of your channels ?
A lot of people will be asking “why are you doing a video on this sport when you said you wouldn’t?”
Well … I’ve been watching a lot of French TV and films in French to brush up on my multi-linguistic skills. Been watching a lot of Pétanque games online and never realized that it’s incredibly popular in France. To be honest, it’s actually a really good sport to watch! Hence the video.
How many languages do you speak?
@@ratedpending if you ask me honestly, I don't speak any language fluently (not even English!)
Let me say this then: bonne chance avec le français!!
Good luck with the French!!
i noticed that old guys are playing it all over the place in france
Hey I was thinking a video on how competitive sailing races work would be cool
This pretty much sums up my Ninh Ly watching experience over the years:
See a video in my notifications about a sport that I've never heard of
Watch the entire thing, enjoying it immensely
Spend the next few days obsessively watching matches of said sport
Thank Ninh for his amazing and criminally underrated channel, and for introducing me to sports that I never would have heard of otherwise
Thank you Ninh
Thank you so much, glad my videos inspire you to watch some of these sports!
As a french viewer, I can insure you it's pretty popular, especially on vacation during summer, and extremely popular in the south of france, because it was born there and almost every village has a "boulodrome" on which you can play a game. Even in villages up north in france you can still find a boulodrome. Pétanque is basically the unofficial french national sport.
Oui, c'est très populaire en France.
J'ai joué à un match avec quelqu'un à Marseille cette année.
C'est amusant, mais pas facile à jouer!
@@NinhLyUK ça demande pas mal de dextérité, surtout en prenant les distances officielles. Lancer une boule de 800g à 8 ou 9m avec précision n'est pas facile, et un petit cailloux peu devenir votre pire ennemie si vous tombez dessus.
@@NinhLyUK Bah justement je trouve que c'est l'un des trucs les moins compliqués qu'on a perso, même bourré tu peux y jouer 😂
I got hooked on the game in Southern Arizona in the high desert. There's a group of French ex-pats that play every Sunday.
Figured only the FRENCH Would come up with something so lame and boring 😢
Amazing! I’m a French teacher in the UK, this is a great video to show my students!
Awesome! Thank you!
I played this once at a local club. Have a set myself . Great pass time that takes practice.
Absolutely!
@@NinhLyUK One video of rules of Kho-Kho
From Madagascar here, just appreciating this after the Word Cup we won the 2nd place!
Very well done presentation
I love how you continuously upload Ninh Explains series during lockdown
I try dude!
Oh the irony now!
This is awesome, memories of holidays abroad, we need a world championship or something in Blackpool tbh
Travel ... ah, I remember that.
That's the thing we all used to do before the government ruined it all.
there is a petanque world championship
I laughed so much when I saw the explanation of "FANNY". In the middle of a "formal" explanation of a game rules, knowing that one point of the rule is to kiss the arse of a girl named "Fanny" is hilarious ! It is sooooooo French ! I know, I'm one of them from the South of France. If I had had to explain the rule, I would not have dared saying it as it is more a "tradition" than a rule but coming from an English speaking person, I love it ! You made my day ! I had never thought of the picture. Now I'm going to make one and will use next time I fplay with my friends. Thanks for the great idea ! Lots of fun ahead
I've been loving the frequent uploads!
Thanks. I don't know if I can keep up the pace, but yeah.
Ninh explains why hes been missing 😭
Burnout, and RUclips doesn't pay like it used to. (Well, it never really did, but it used to pay more.)
@@cygil1 Nah hes doing another yt channel it's in his channels tab
And also he's done 143 videos on sports idk if he has run out of them or he just got bored 😅
He's been uploading to another channel called Ultimate Bucket list. ruclips.net/channel/UCHMVJvXh_HqAwJo9Fo7BSYQ Check it out he makes good content on there. He's taken tours of various stadiums, and gone to various tourist destinations.
@@ancient6676 That's what I said 😅
this is the best garden game ever. It doesn't require great physical fitness, but it's a lot of fun. I bought the first set 10 years ago, prepared a field in the garden and it started. Whenever guests come, we play, have a barbecue and play. My parents who are older play. sometimes the neighbors come over and they also like to play something much better than bowling. It's worth trying - great entertainment for family and groups of friends.
mr ninh,
watching my second clip of yours confirms what i wrote of the first viewing of yours that you do have a enjoyable talent in providing quality content.
Great video! I love your channel! Please never stop making these sports videos! You make my day every time you post! 😊
Great video yet again! Merry Christmas from the US Ninh!
Thank you Dave, Happy Holidays to you! :)
This looks more fun than bowls. Made me google where I can buy the boules in here. And dat music choice, the freaking national anthem!
Well spotted. And yes, it can be played anywhere that's flat so it's a lot more accessible.
And thanks!
Love your sport videos, probably the best explanations of the net, hopefully we'll one day see a video on Jugger(both "Juggers of the Wasteland" & Collegiate rules)
Thanks Kody. I'll consider it.
@@NinhLyUK omg, thank you!!!
I only say add Jugger of Wasteland rules because the two rule sets can best be seen as JoW rules = Normal (American)Football, Collegiate = Flag/Tag (American)Football
In Argentina old and retired people play this game, with the only variation in you must make the boules (bochas) roll, instead of throw it through the air. And you can play from any place of your half of the pitch
Yes.
Got to play this for a while when I was in high school French class... I was actually quite good at it! some of my classmates never got the hang of it... Wish this video was around then, Nihn!
I love La Marseillaise in the background!
Well spotted!
Brilliant thank you about to play this in senior games with my students; think I’ll leave out the Fanny rule!
Yes, probably best to avoid that last part. Thanks!
Brilliant. I’m trying to get a Petanque club going in my home village and this is a great video to show them. Thanks you.
I'm trying to do the same as you Christine. Any way you can let me know your progress in relation to building the Piste? Projected size of Terrain, Materials used and overall cost. Thanks in advance.
Very fun to play, if you never tried it you should give it a try one day, its like one of those games you play with friends the weekend a beer in hand before the barbecue
Definitely a fun game to play on the beach!
I am terribly sad to say it, but you need a pastice not a beer to play la pétanque :p
My step-father's mother is from Jersey, and she used to have a boules pit. Great memories!
I had no idea there was this many sports till this dude
Yep, I get that comment a lot!
Hi Ninh, next can you explain the rules of Marngrook?
He's already got a vid on Australian Rules Football (aka Marngrook)
ruclips.net/video/Mnv32s8jPz0/видео.html
4:09 God damn it, that was beautiful
Yes, that was literally the perfect carreau!
Absolutely textbook.
The name of the sport was derived from words in the provençal dialect meaning anchored foot. The inventor of the game was a bocce player who became arthritic. As a bocce required a run up to bowl, he created a new game where the boule was to be delivered with feet planted on the ground.
Yes, I believe so.
"Pétanque" comes from the southern France patois (occitan) : "PÈ" meaning "feet" and "TANCAR", verb meaning "stIck, fix". Meaning that both feet must remain still when playing.
That explains why it seems so similar to bocce. Great extra info my dude.
So it's identical to bocce with feet planted?
Bocce allows the player to take steps in the delivery. Pétanque requires the player to have both feet within a 0.5-meter diameter circle and part of both feet should remain in contact with the ground inside the circle.
Great video as always you are completely unique on youtube
Thanks Aiden. I try!
This is the game in the opening scene of the classic Dennis Rodman and Dane Cook action thriller "Simon Sez". Which itself was a sequel to the Movie "Double Team" starring JCVD and Dennis Rodman. I always knew it was called Boules but never even had a sniff of a clue of the other term/name Pétanque. Looks like you just taught an old dog a new trick Sir! Kudos!
I've never heard of that film, must look it up.
And thanks!
@@NinhLyUK You're welcome. Hopefully ya like it. If ya ever need any possibly obscure movie info in future, I would be more than happy to help if I can.
Again ... love the channel Sir!
Great explanation .. thank you! Vive la France… 🎉🇫🇷
Hey Ninh, have you ever considered doing a video on why soccer teams always make jerseys that arent their team colours?
You just earned a new subscirber. Love you chanel and i suddnelly got more intrested in sports by watching your videos . Everything is perfectly explained and you give real informations .
Do you mind doing a Video about Equstrian ShowJumping / Dressage / Eventing ( one of these 3) they are most popular horse-related sport yet a lot of diffrend chanels are saying diffrend things .
(Sorry for bad spelling i'm not native Engish/American )
Awesome! Thank you!
You are one of the best channels on RUclips I hope you continue on this and I learned new sports from you Is It possible to make video About The ( Road Tennis rule ) 🌹Thank you for your beautiful videos 👍
Thank you very much.
I don't know about Road Tennis? Is that a sport?
Yes road tennis is a different type of tennis 🎾
Playing la marseillaise was the icing on the cake
we played this on the beach in the US. we call it bachi/bacci
Thanks for that, really good to teach petanque to non french friends :D
Are you going to a video about nfl vs rugby soon?
Can you please make a new video explaining the rules of Carrom? My kids would really like that. Thank you very much for all your sports rules explained videos.
Great suggestion!
Catch as catch can!
Thanks to make so perfect video and let us know its rule, history, but i am thinking we must play it ourselves then can know the rules totally, now we just knew a little or rough about its rule. But i will watch your video always.
Boy still cranking sport videos since I stopped watching. Good job, ninh!
I live in Scotland and we've got a petanque club nearby. Next time I see a game in process I'm going to shout 'FANNY' at the players and see what reaction I get.
You only do that if they lose without scoring a point. Then it's acceptable.
If you do it at any other time, they might take umbrage to it.
@@NinhLyUK They most certainly will. "Ya fanny" is an often used insult up here, much more so than in England.
If you do you may encounter what is known as a Glasgow Kiss
Good on ya for getting another sports explanation video in.. Regarding the Fanny bit.. I’m glad you have to buy the winner or winning team drinks compared to butt kissing.. After all, being light a few bucks is hell of a lot more preferable than public humiliation!!
There's still villages in France that enforce that. They actually have a statue on hand just in case!
Yes in the south we do the butt kissing, but the most of the time it is on a mosaic so we do it's funny
Splendid video!
Thank you very much!
Who misses Ninh?
i do
Ah Pétanque. It's the perfect game to play during summer evenings while getting a few drinks down waiting for dinner
I came here after seeing the Google doodle for this game. I've grown up only knowing Bocce, and Pentaque looks just as fun! I would love to throw down in this sport.
thank you for making this video and making it funny too
I remember when the marshals from the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix played boule during the Red Flag of the race
Love it. Glad to see you changed your mind. :)
Thanks.
Do a video about shooting and one about 2square/downball/handball
Come Backk
Hi i think it would be cool if you explained Schwingen (swiss wrestling)
I love all these rules videos, and I'm wondering when you'll complete the cue sports and do a video on Billiards (English Billiards)
I'll consider it, but it's a dying game that nobody really plays anymore.
@@NinhLyUK That's fair enough, it is a game I find really interesting though
Also known as Boće/Buće/Balote in Dalmatia :)
wait, the game from Disco Elysium is real?? Dude this is cool af
Indonesia has similar game, but with much smaller arena and use much smaller resin ball which is like pinball. We call it keléréng. Malaysia also have the game, but I don't remember what's its name in Malaysia
Ah okay, thanks.
I want to add thay Pétanque features in the wonderful video game Disco Elysium. The player character can pick up a ball off the ground, and his interior physical strength encourages him to throw it like a baseball. Should it succeed, the ball is violently (but superbly) thrown into the ocean. Little did the player know that the ball was actually a boule, and that he had just disrupted two elderly men's Pétanque game. He must now find a replacement.
Funny thing is, should his strength fail, the protagonist's throw would be perfect in the context of Pétanque!
Well done!
Great video!
Ninh ly explain the difference between the NBA and eurobasket
rules of sls, street league skateboarding, would love to see that
Lol, this comes out the day after the new Grand Tour special, which has this game in the first 10minutes of it.
I thought the episode was terrible.
Tired, repetitive, predictable and we all know it's scripted, but it's scripted way too much that it's obviously fake.
At least with the older Top Gear episodes, you had some semblance that this all actually happened.
Amazon really need to cut their losses on this one.
@@NinhLyUK I didn’t think it was their best either but I still enjoyed it. I watch mostly for their sarcasm though.
This episode was super scripted, but it feels more like it is meant to be like one of those cheesy movie-ish specials they used to do than one of their standard ones. The year of waiting and anticipation really didn’t help either.
Im petty sure I had played this or something very similiar when I was a kid (Is a dane and had living in Denmark for most of my life so far) But I never understood how it is played until now
You probably did?
It's surprisingly popular and the great thing is that you can play it anywhere that's flat.
@@NinhLyUK Yeah, but it is more I remember to had played a game with balls like those where we had to underhand throw them at a smaller thing XD I just never understood how it works, but I can see it now
Please explain about Mesoamerican ball games
Just to make sure, three questions:
1) Does a dead boule leave the entire match?
2) What if the only side with boules left to throw, knocks the jack out of play?
3) If we score no points and we dont know of a lady called "Fanny" but do know of one called "Bottom"...what should we kiss?
Can you explain A7FL soon.
Can you do bossaball?
Any new vids soon big man?
My stepfather had a doberman who died just before he met my mother, and you know, the doberman was playing with petanque balls XD It was his favorite toys and he managed to pierce holes in it with his teeth. We had hard time believing it until we get to his house to take his things when he moved with us, he found the balls, with clear dog teeth marks in it, it's impressive.
nin explains do running rules please
I Love your sport videos
can you make video About Kho kho Support is popular tag game .
Thanks. I'll consider it.
I'm guessing that the rule mentioned at 5:04 was added because there were once players who intentionally knocked the jack out when they were losing
Yeah, he mentioned that.
Any chance you might cover Horseshoes? It’s similar to this or cornhole.
Hey could you do Irish Road Bowls?
have you heard of Australian Rules Football?
Next video please😁
Sure.
quick question about jkd is it both martial art style and philosophy and is it better and more effective than wing chun
That all depends on how you look at it. It also depends who's does their martial art better.
You will find Wing Chun techniques in JKD, as Bruce Lee was trained in this at a young age.
But the philosophy of "learn what is useful, discard what is useless" will be different for everyone.
@@NinhLyUK but bruce lee invented wing chun to overcome the weakness of wing chun what is was lacking jkd is the new and improved version of wing chun
Oui
Bien sûr.
Make video on Rollball
I actually learnt about this game actually from this cartoon called Oggy et les cafards (Oggy and the Cockroaches) which is popular in India. Heck I didn't even realise it was a French cartoon but damn the good old days, that cartoon was the most French thing ever.
Its been a month without ninh's video
Been ill dude, will be making more shortly.
@@NinhLyUK waiting😁
Do the rules of the international Army games
Hi Ninh! Not long ago I was introduced to the backyard game “Bottle Bash” (otherwise known as “Polish Horseshoes”) and I had a great time. I hope you would cover that soon, considering you have already covered cornhole, another backyard game
I've never heard of it?
@@NinhLyUK Link incoming to help you out
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_horseshoes
Here ya go: Please keep in mind that distance between poles vary as this is a backyard leisure game.
Could you explain Dambe nigerian boxing
This is very similar to Bocce Balls?
Yes.
It is also popular in Ex Yougoslavian contrys
Could you explain the rules ear pulling?
It seems that there's all sorts.
Can you explain the rules of Arnis/Kali/Eskrima tournament rules?
pr the rules of speed boat racing formula1h2o
Can you explain kick boxing
Hey Ninh, do you think you'd ever start a video series on casino games?
Explain the rules of buzkashi/kokpar/kokboru.
Just as an idea for a sport thats not seen or heard of often, sailing
When could we see a new video
Hiya ninh
I saw you at old Trafford for a glazers our protest and did a short interview I was worsening if you could let me know when I will see this video on one of your channels ?
Glazers In
Nice vid
Thanks.
In the Netherlands its called ‘boulen’, and is quite well known
Great.
I'm a slow pitch softball player this looks like a natural sport for me .
Cool.
Can you do a video about IndyCar ? 🖤