How do I know I have correct boule size? If I compare all manufacturers suggestions and some suppliers my ball perfect size vary from 72-75 mm. (Handlength and longfinger size guides) I have then considered OBUT is the biggest manufacturer so they have probably some experience, and then it should be 73 mm, but in the lower end handsize 82-86 mm -> 73 mm. (I saw a list where many good male player had size and weight listed , and most had 71-73 680-690) Due to my handshape I think I could gain with 72 but how do I know if that is correct size ? Is there any exercise practice to do to decide with size is the correct one or is it only based on feeling ? I started with OBUT Match 73/690 my first ball in my short career, works ok, but when do a high lob or plombing it releases to early, is it size or technique? Then I tested OBUT RCC 72/690 a used ball, but very slippery, ok when hi loob and slippery when plomb, but shooting miss left, size or technique? Now I got MS Master Inox 72/690 to test, it is a used boule so the surface have good grip. Any suggestions how to decide correct size quickly, so I can drop that mental thought and focus on playing better.

It can be difficult but a reframe in the mind is VIP. I hope this helps @Jimmy Skog https://youtu.be/rHtTKeyh5pQ?is=m1Jd4LEfIXKUG0IW

🇫🇷 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.