🇫🇷 On Tuesday I do something that terrifies and excites me in equal measure. I leave my job — my only income — and move to the Languedoc in the south of France. No salary. No safety net. Just a camera, 40 years of pétanque in my hands, and a belief that I can build a life around this game I love. As you know, last weekend I finished Vice Champion of Manche Promotion Triples. This weekend I’m packing my boule plus a few cases and move to France permanently to play and film full time. I mention that sequence deliberately. This isn’t a retirement project or a content experiment. This is a serious competitive player making an irreversible commitment to the game — and bringing this community with him. But I’ll be honest with you. To make this work — to stay in France, keep filming, keep competing, and not have to come home with my tail between my legs — I need a team around me. That’s why today I’m opening just 20 Founding Member spots. And don’t worry this group will always be free for anyone with my normal advice and support from each other. If you become a Founding Member, you’re not just getting coaching. You’re joining my team. You’re the people who believed in this when it was just an idea and a one-way ticket. You’re the reason it works. And I will never forget that. Before I tell you what’s included, let me tell you what this actually is. This isn’t a subscription to content. It’s a mentoring relationship — before your competitions, after them, and every step of the game in between. The kind of support you’d pay a YouTube coach for, from someone you already trust, who is now living inside the French pétanque world full time and bringing everything he finds back to you. I am that confident you’ll feel the value of this that I’m offering a 7 day free trial. No risk. No obligation, to experience what proper pétanque mentoring feels like. I’d be genuinely surprised if you wanted to leave. A word on what this community already is: A collection of like minded players who want to improve and progress their game with support, encouragement and safety.

So how to go about starting to point in the squat position, any advice? What technique you all using 🤔

My first proper practice for 2026 starts this weekend as I’m restricted when it’s cold. First competition is next weekend when I play with a GB junior player to help his game

The final was very interesting in many ways, some superb shots, strange tactics and the return of Rocher with new boule and time off to recuperate and rebuild. https://www.youtube.com/live/WH5OrCdN7mY?si=hX46lqN7vf1QBGKz

I decided to add memberships to my channel as a way to make a little money and add extra value to people. When I leave the UK I won’t have any income so I’ll be working hard to deliver the best information about the game as I can. I plan to offer LOTS of extra videos of game analysis with in depth commentary, reasoning behind decisions and advice for players of all levels. What kind of content would you like to see here in Skool as well as if you were to become a member of my YouTube community?