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Erik: How has learning to play pétanque given you a new way to learn from others?
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Matt: Boy, it has been incredible. You know, somebody gave me a cheap pétanque set and
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pétanque is like French bocce. It's a little bit more tactical. The French pop the ball
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into the air and drop it in the right spot rather than bowling the ball, and they usually
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play on crushed granite. So it's all about how you place the ball and when you place
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the ball, and the kinds of tactics that you have, and, of course, also the people that
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you play with. Sometimes I play with folks who are negative, you know, and the things
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that are coming out of their mouth and, especially, if they're a teammate of mine, it's gonna
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affect the way I play. And sometimes I play with people who have an enthusiastic positive
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attitude, and I tend to do really well with my enthusiastically positive teammate. I play
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with a lot of French folks, it's a French game, and they are an incredible bunch of
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people, sometimes playfully arrogant but just wonderful, wonderful folks. And it's -- for
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these people, it's -- it's like golf, but because of the team aspect of it and the tactics
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that you use, and the overall strategy that you use to win points, I think it's far more
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challenging and you get more out of it. I actually get more out of it than I do golf.