French Sports are WEIRDER Than You Think...

Water Jousting? Rugby Golf?? Using Witch Doctors to win games!? ... Ah France. We love you.
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[@bpie_ef3967]

Tu as oublié la pétanque ! Le meilleur sport de France honnêtement

[@a0me]

Petanque Pro on PS2, one of the best selling French games.

[@GileadMaerlyn]

Mais oui ! Comment peut-on parler des sports Français sans mentionner la pétanque ?

[@tanis634]

@@a0me nope Assassin's Creed one of the best selling French games

[@zweispurmopped]

Is there Rugby Pétanque, too? 😃

[@tiberiian]

One of the first things my French Brother in law gifted me was a pétanque set. Shocker it wasn't mentioned.

[@Pehennji]

"-Et la pétanque? -Quoi? -Il a oublié la pétanque... Il fait le clown pendant 11 minutes et il oublie la pétanque. -Ah la boulette!"

[@personnequelquun8060]

La ref magnifique au dîner de cons

[@Ezullof]

Ce qui est amusant c'est que la pétanque est le seul sport de boules à être un peu connu... mais c'est loin d'être le seul à exister, et encore moins celui avec les règles les plus bizarres ! Sur la Loire par exemple, il y avait un sport de boules qui se jouait sur les bateaux, avec des boules en bois, au gré des mouvement du bateau, qui étaient intégrés au jeu.

[@karinet2]

​@@Ezullof Tu penses à la boule de fort? Les boules ne sont même pas des boules... Il y a aussi les boules carrées... en fait ça vaudrait une vidéo entière, ces histoires de boules... (sans oublier l'expression "oh les boules...").

[@Daggerjam]

La pétanque carrée et la pelote basque (c'est entre le squash et le baseball je dirais)

[@auto_math]

​@@karinet2c'est la boule de fort qui se joue en charentaises ?

[@brendanwoolford5937]

In the tour de france anecdots you forgot to mention Eugen Christophe in 1913 that had to walk 14km to a forge to repair his bike after a bad fall and got penalised of 3minutes added to his time because a child helped him put on the forge (at the time cyclist were not allowed any exterior help) he went on to finish 29/59 on that day. I think it's the craziest story I've heard of about the Tour de France

[@BreizhBergamotte]

He broke his bike fork three times in his career, first time it took him 4 hours, the last time it took him 1 h30 to fix it 👏

[@grogneux]

2:00 The odds are that Denisot lied.

[@dinamiteurdinamiteur2324]

Obviously. Anyone telling otherwise is a f ing clown. Peoples are so dumb that's crazy

[@flrn84791]

100% 😂

[@evefear8210]

Obviously yes

[@cfgp]

2:24 here in portugal we, uhm, attribute a non-taxable profession to the referee's mother

[@natviolen4021]

🤣🤣🤣 I will remember and use that phrase from now on.

[@piotrrashman6487]

what, like ceo of starbucks

[@themetalslayer2260]

he only quote the most famous proposition we shout at him (the list is long but it's the same in Portugal, the difference is only the translation)

[@grogneux]

Impossible in France. Not that we're too highly educated. It's just that every job is taxable :p

[@olivierpuyou3621]

@@grogneux Yes, despite the fact that we also prefer it to be female and that for the most part the referees are men.

[@vukkulvar9769]

The best part with rugby is the players often having high education.

[@olivierpuyou3621]

And that their supporters do not hit each other or insult each other.

[@lorax8172]

Every American football player has a higher education 😅

[@kaycee1076]

"Rugby players are gentlemen pretending to be hooligans while football players are hooligans pretending to be gentlemen" I think is the old quote.

[@olivierpuyou3621]

@@kaycee1076 Sentence attributed to Jean Pierre Rives, former captain of the France team.

[@HisuiOgawa]

Always thought funny that my university had 2 rugby fields and nothing for other outdoor activities. You got a degree? Then you play rugby. 😂

[@GroovingPict]

in Norway we chanted "ut med dommeren, inn med kua" ("out with the ref, in with the cow") whenever we were unhappy with the referee, implying that even a cow could do a better job. I use the past tense, because I dont think it is used much anymore, even among kids, but as someone who was a kid in the 80s and 90s it was pretty ubiquitous back then

[@isaacbobjork7053]

In Sweden we sometimes sing, or at least used to; "Ut med domaren och in med Nalle Puh", get the ref off the field and get Winnie the Pooh in

[@JazzlynnRoscoe]

The guy barfing at the end of the marathon after he dedicated his wine bottle to his mum was hilarious 😂

[@NahorCA]

It was his grand-mother, his "mamie", not "mommy".

[@JazzlynnRoscoe]

@@NahorCA oh, I thought he said mum. Sorry.🙃

[@mihaelac2472]

He dedicated it to his granny. He said grand mere.

[@PierreMiniggio]

@@JazzlynnRoscoe No worries, it's a fair mistake to make if you didn't catch the french, because it wasn't that clear. He said "grand-mère" which means "grand-mother", and right after he said "mamie" which is a pet name we use to call our grandmother, but the way he pronounced it sounded closer to the english pet name "mummy" for "mom" rather than "mamie". So that's most likely where the confusion came from.

[@cannibalbananas]

Was hoping you'd show us a clip of rugby golf. I'm a visual person & am intrigued by this odd combination

[@Ravioli1586]

its basicaly kicking the ball down a golf fairway into round nets

[@cannibalbananas]

@@Ravioli1586 Thank you

[@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny]

For using and I hope also destroying in the process a golf fairway, this sport has all my admiration.

[@billhanna2148]

@@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny And if they can make it a contact sport too that would eviscerate the image of that annoying boring elitist game for ever.

[@geoduet5461]

Technically we also have the most well known race of all motorsports with Le Mans

[@BioFake1]

Euh... L'une des plus connues, le Grand Prix de Monaco et les 500 miles d'Indianapolis rivalisent avec les 24h du Mans ;)

[@Plonoe]

@@BioFake1 Faux. Les 24H du Mans sont effectivement la course automobile la plus connue (ainsi que la plus exigeante) au monde. Et également l'une des plus anciennes. Tu fais certes références à la triple couronne, Le Mans / Monaco / Indy500. Mais les 24H du mans ont une plus grande notoriété que les deux autres courses. Surtout que Monaco ces 10 dernières années a largement perdu de sa splendeur au point même que la FOM a réfléchis à plusieurs reprise à retirer le GP ou d'y forcer une modification car il n'attire plus autant de monde malgré son aura. L'Indy 500 rayonne elle très très majoritairement aux USA. Et très peu ailleurs. Et même aux US, Daytona n'est pas très loin en terme d'audience derrière l'Indy 500.

[@BioFake1]

@@Plonoe Alors, je maintiens, Monaco et l'Indy 500 font plus d'audiences que les 24h, que ce soit en présentiel, à la TV ou sur internet. La plus exigeante ? Alors pourquoi on voit les pilotes délaissés en F1 aller faire du WEC et tout gagner sans forcer ? Sans parler du fait que le tracé est loin d'être le plus exigeant ( l'enfer vert du Nürburgring l'est bien plus) Certes Monaco est sous pression de la part de la FOM et de Liberty Media mais ce n'est pas parce que l'évènement n'est pas suivi ou pas rentable, c'est à cause de l'absence de spectacle une fois la qualif' terminée. L'Indy 500 ne rayonne qu'aux USA, peut-être mais en attendant, le marché américain est tellement gigantesque qu'il arrive à se suffire à lui-même. Quand bien même il n'y aurait que les américains qui regardaient l'Indy 500, il aurait toujours plus d'audience que les 24h. Donc non, les 24h ne sont pas LA course la plus connue du monde. Elle est extrêmement prestigieuse, elle a une importance historique fantastique etc. Mais elle partage le trône, point final.

[@nmanjos]

Actually you should do an episode about pétanque

[@kiwiandrew]

I'm a kiwi and I was disappointed that the most recent Rugby World Cup final wasn't between France and Ireland....I felt it would've been a better reflection of the rest of the tournament

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

As a South African I am not disappointed 😂 Those 2 did play well

[@castorblagueur]

The "force basque" from south west of france do have some interresting features. In the same region, you have a sport closed to squash calle "pelote basque". one of its version involves a "basket launcher" called "chistera" which can help reach amazing ball speed.

[@MrLiakun]

The Béhour is the best sport ever. Big strong dudes wearing medieval armors and weapons, smashing each other in fun and happiness, what a marvelous idea !

[@bobbychouffe6988]

Maybe forgot the "Pelote Basque" derived from the "Jeu de paume" which is played in west-southern France and northern Spain, the "Pétanque" and the "boule de fort" (wich is kind of a mix between curling and pétanque)

[@MrBviman]

totally : forgetting pelote basque as American play it a lot in florida

[@auto_math]

​@@MrBvimanthey play a variation with 3 walls and xisteras.

[@mireiaortega4936]

If you're going to talk about French cycling you have to mention the Paris-Roubaix! A 257 km long race where the main difficulty is having to ride through cobbled streets that will put your lower back to test! They even change the course when an old street is paved so that it doesn't lose kms of cobbles

[@darkiee69]

And building a brand new cobbled road close o the finish.

[@Daggerjam]

Poulidor

[@nmanjos]

tu as oublié le jeu de pétanque

[@niravparmar5790]

I love every video you make, because you bring joy to learning French

[@user-xj3qm8ou1i]

As a South African I feel bad for knocking out France.🇿🇦

[@Wazkaty]

Your team was better than our! Don't 😊

[@theoneandonlyAeth]

One of the best games in any sport I've ever seen. Go Bokke!

[@olivierpuyou3621]

C'est la vie mon ami...

[@user-xj3qm8ou1i]

​@@WazkatyThanks

[@pinkunicorn3373]

The New Zealand referee helped you very well. Difficult to win at 16 against 15. I just remind here that even Ben O'Keeffe said that he was not satisfied with his refereeing. In short, stolen match like in 1995;

[@SeeWildlife]

Handball? Petanque? Maybe an episode 2 in your future.

[@autre1806]

Isn't handball german, though ?

[@karinet2]

@@autre1806Yes it is (and therefore its pronunciation shoud be as in german...).

[@SeeWildlife]

Rugby isn't exactly French.

[@arvetemecha]

@@SeeWildlife well, some people still think that the old medieval and brutal games known as "la choule" inspired the rugby game. Which is somewhat far fetched...

[@minirop]

You should have talked about how the Tour de France was at the beginning, and how someone was disqualified because there was a SNCF sticker on his bike, or some took a car. 😂

[@fadetounforgiven]

Football and witchcraft? In some places in Spain they leave garlic around the goal area to "help" the local team.

[@MrRamtalok]

Pour info: les jouteurs nautiques ne portent pas de protections en dehors du pavois dans le Languedoc. EN: nautic jousters do not in fact wear any protective gear outside of the shield in the Languedoc region.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

I was gifted a pavois and a lance (with the teeth 😮!). They have pride of place in my home in Agde. ❤

[@AlyaaAlyiz]

Oh my, there are so many sports I've never heard about! I'm going to do some dig up XD Thanks for teaching me things about my own country, I love it 👌

[@pernille2389]

I have run the Médoc marathon disguised as a convoi exceptionnel. My finish time was 5.04 h , and I wasn't the last, that was the Dalton brothers and Lucky Luke, but to be fair they were running chained to eachother. I didn't throw up, it is just small glasses of wine, and little amuse bouchés.

[@audep.8619]

J’étais fan de tes formats courts, je le suis encore plus de tes formats longs!!! Excellent! Merci et bravo!!

[@pierrecasas4769]

Salut Loïc, Rigolo et talentueux, comme d'habitude! 👋 Juste un petit détail/petite erreur : tu as choisi une bouteille bourguignonne ou de la vallée du Rhône (eh oui, parce que chaque région a sa forme de bouteille, en France! Peut-être un autre sujet de vanne pour une de tes prochaines chroniques?) pour parler du marathon du Médoc : SACRILEGE!!!! Ils vont pas aimer les Bordelais!!!! 😉😂😂😂

[@Twanou45]

Oulalah ! J'avoue j'ai tiqué aussi haha.

[@AlighieriD4nte]

Qu'on lui donne à boire de la villageoise pour expier sa faute !

[@f.w.7843]

Love your long form videos.

[@knoqx79]

10:49 and you use a BOURGOGNE botle !?

[@SerbanCMusca-ut8ny]

Yep, noticed that too. Shame!... shame!... shame!...

[@Thl-op4xe]

Well the bike wasn't even real...

[@--Za]

Isn't it a Côtes du Rhône bottle ?

[@dapoun7228]

@@--Za Bourgogne and Côtes du Rhône use the same bottle

[@phoenixUPC]

Actually, I just checked the 5-0 PSG game (against Steaua Bucuresti on Aug 27, 1997) and the goal was in fact scored on the 41st minute, even though the records show it at 40. The discrepancy is because in football, 1st minute is when the clock shows 00:XX, and 41st minute would be when the clock shows 40:XX, but sometimes they just drop the seconds and write what the minute shows (hence off by one) there is a full match video on KZbin, which unfortunately doesn't show the clock all the time, but if you keep your own clock from the kick off, the clock would have shown 40:54 when the goal was scored, hence on the 41st minute! 😊 Much respect to the marabout!!

[@sseb22]

I second that: the 1st minute is from 0:00 to 0:59 hence 40:54 is indeed the 41st minute

[@pentuplemintgum666]

The same reason we refer to this as the 21st century.

[@danuzay8940]

Adorei esse vídeo! Obrigada 🙏 thanks for putting all this information together and delivering it with a unique humor. I love your rosy cheeks btw 🤗

[@MultiEricr]

In America we have drunk marathoning. We just call it bar hopping though.

[@JazzlynnRoscoe]

In south Texas we call it the weekend...

[@user-lc9yf7kx2i]

En France, c'est les"bars parallèles" ( quote Aymeric Lompret )! 😄

[@lorettascott5477]

😂 contact golf ⛳😂

I love the fact that the French Federation of fencing officially added light saber combats to its variants 😊.

[@snowman8052]

I did the marathon du médoc last year. It was awesome! I’ll do it again!

[@DjaAkh]

I lived in Bordeaux for a while and witnessed a marathon du Medoc. A friend even participated for some distance. I think there are dedicated runners who don't get drunk and finish and then there are the others. Like my friend :)

[@holleighlordel1575]

Very entertaining! 😂

[@gpfifly]

Seen them play Basque pelota, that's crazy, maybe not originally French but the French are the crazy people still doing it

[@olivierpuyou3621]

Not just the French, the Spanish too and it even seems to me that Argentina is world champion, or was.

[@ochalo4002]

Euskara sport no francia played in every country with basque community. You'll never see this outside of basque country in france so watch your words !

[@gpfifly]

I've seen then play it in French Reunion island @@ochalo4002

[@BlazeMiskulin]

{Puts on pedantic hat} It's called "football" because it's played "on foot" rather than on horseback--which is how most historical games using large balls were played.

[@trevorkirby3781]

To be even more pedantic , you could use any part of your body to propel the ball as can still be seen in the traditional shrovetide football games around England that usually involve teams half a village strong and normally involve a rule on how to start, how to score and very little else.

[@laurentfournier9508]

Longue Paume, Ballon au Poing....all practiced in a few villages in the north of France.

[@etiennedlf1850]

Could have mentioned the revolution with le serment du jeu de paume when the revolutionaries took other the game room after their room was barricaded

[@allanjmcpherson]

I like the implication that American football is more creatively named specifically because all the players use their hands, and only one player is allowed to kick the ball.

[@philllllllll]

Full body contact golf sounds fun

[@marcos.e.herlein1986]

Primero, quiero decir que fue un muy buen videos.. Y segundo, Francia.. 😂 No podía no decirlo!

[@bernhardwall6876]

You mentioned witchcraft in the intro, so we actually did see this coming.

[@stiofaininnichlerigh8168]

😂😂😂😂 we have Rugby 🏉 in Ireland too 😅 we love it but the last one 😅

[@Goat_boi]

0:35 BRO I HAVE MY PHONE'S NOTIFS SET TO THAT AND I THOUGHT MY PHONE WENT OFF

[@Leslie-Risse]

To add up on the female side, the women's football team is doing good right now, recently getting to the Nations Cup final against Spain. They lost but hey, The women's spanish team is incredible. There's a reason they're world champion despite being in an open conflict with their coach during the World Cup. The women's rugby team is pretty good as well, beating the Black Ferns of New Zealand in the opening game of the Women XV. They're ranked third best team in the world, right behind New Zealand (and England is first). And for the cycling part, how not to mention the Tour de France Femme! It was (re)launched just two-three years ago and it was a resounding success! The most famous french female cyclist is Jeannie Longo (who is retired), and the current best french female cyclist (for the races like the Tour de France) is Juliette Labous. The most famous current french female cyclist is probably Audrey Cordon-Ragot (she's more of a classics cyclist). To add more sports, how not to talk about Handball? Both men and women competitions are dominated by France right now. I remember loving watching Jackson Richardson play as a kid. Same goes for biathlon by the way but I don't know much about this sport. Also, basketball I guess? I don't know much about the sport but I know at least the names of Tony Parker, Rudy Gobert, Nicolas Batum and... Wemby. yeah, the last one I only know his shortened name. X) And finale, how not to mention the FFL? La Fédération Française de la Lose! Look it up. Allez Alain Philippe!

[@clemente3966]

N'oublie surtout pas le tennis de table. C'est peut-être pas français, mais il y a les deux frères Lebrun qui ont réussi à se placer dans le top 20 mondial (Alexis 20ème et Félix 6ème), et l'un des deux, je sais plus lequel, a battu le 1er du classement. Et puisque chaque pays ne peut envoyer que 2 joueurs aux JO, il y a d'assez fortes chances qu'ils gagnent la médaille.

[@Leslie-Risse]

@@clemente3966Disons que ça c'est beaucoup plus dans l'actualité récente, mais oui, je ne les oublie pas ! D'ailleurs je bosse dans une boutique où il y a un corner J.-O. et je déplore l'absence totale de goodies pour le tennis de table !

[@fredericsagniez9536]

The French Flair the entire Rugby World highlights !!

[@shaezbreizh86]

You should have talk about béhourd, its not french and is practiced all over europe, but it worth being mentionned as it is pretty atypic Its a bunch of dude dressed with armor and doing medieval fight

[@Ezullof]

I live in a boat jousting city in northern France. Never found it that weird, it's a pretty cool event... except when they do it when it's cold and raining. Never understood why they didn't always do it during the summer when there's tourists. Some people are apparently very competitive.

[@athenaellis7556]

Question: wondering if you have done or plan to do a Learn French series from zero to fluency? I would really enjoy that.

[@poja82]

Loïc, we love you, but you cannot, really cannot consider the subject complete until you talk about LA PéTANQUE.

[@emiliendespres1300]

Could I interest you in chessboxing ? Exactly what it sounds like, invented in a bande dessinée by Enki Bilal.

[@AlighieriD4nte]

Mais oui le marathon du Médoc ! Une institution ! 😂

[@jessicardinaux4639]

You forgot the most common of all: la grève 😂

[@dreckshippy]

We actually have water jousting too in Ulm Germany - but without the safety gear just old costumes ... It's called "Fischerstechen"

[@Chaguerrand]

PARKOUUUUUR

[@user-fo6fk6gh5k]

I love this😂❤ but what about that funny game with balls? Petonque I think? Is it officially a sport discipline? I enjoy all your films about French .... well... lifestyle, and I'm waiting for the next one.

[@cory_and_co.]

the sleeping cyclist reminds me of the turtle and the hare race from Aesop's Fables (I think)

[@PierreMiniggio]

Et la pétanque bordel de m... ?! Quand même ! Nan mais oh ! 😂

[@GiandomenicoDeMola]

As an Italian, I have to say that, to me, the strangest sports are to be found in the U.S., not in France. Those french are very old and unique and full of history. Now baseball, football, hockey etc. are "Hollywood" sports, to me.

[@krankarvolund7771]

"The jousters wear protective equipment, it's the PG version of actual jousting" Actual jousting was done with full armours, how can you make more protective than that? XD Well of course, it's still dangerous to hit someone with a wooden lance while both going super fast on a horse, but still ^^

[@Leslie-Risse]

Talked about Anquetil's nap but didn't mention Roger Assenforder! Missed opportunity there my friend. Look it up. You're in for a laugh.

[@patriciapasqualini5545]

La pétanque, of course !!! 😂

[@sociallife6514]

You could have said that french cyclists used to stop on pubs on the road of tour de France to refill their bottle with beer or wine. And generally it was for free.

[@citywitt3202]

Of course French would be the language where it’s possible to accidentally ask for a tennis instead of an apple juice.

[@mecha-sheep7674]

Not really. Pomme and paume don't sound the same. /pom/ vs /pɔm/

[@citywitt3202]

@@mecha-sheep7674 ce n’est pas la même pour vous, et pour mois, mes les autre roastbeefs …

[@Finiarel-bo1hx]

Hi, very good video, if you do another video about that theme search the sport "horse ball" 😅

[@essengeebee]

I heard recently that zero may be called love in tennis because 0 looks like an egg, so it's actually l'œuf.

[@dianaadler7414]

For four years, I lived in Frontignan next to Sete. Lots of jousting there in the summer ... And in Balaruc, et al. Oh, as for a drivers license, it took me 310 days for an 'exchange'. That's a story unto its own.

[@mdancey19.37]

I must remember to ask my French teacher or her partner next week about rugby golf, water jousting and drunk marathon. Louis xiv inventor Ballet, to help with his foot in fencing.

[@Brubarov]

It's not true, in American football, you almost never hit the ball with your foot! Got ya! It makes total sense.

[@yuki_musha]

2:29 Soccer? What is that?

[@DensetsuNoSekai]

an "anime"character from Avatar the Last airbender.

[@nifnouf9371]

What about chess-boxing? It first appeared in a comic book by Enki Bilal, and then people turned it into an actual discipline.

[@remischmitt9308]

In the Netherlands we have the Stiletto Run: 100 meter dash down a street in high heels. Both men and females may run. Disqualified if heel breaks.

[@taragoudard5515]

On a aussi des compétitions de Parkour en fait, les WCT (World Chase Tag). Si on fait un sport c'est pour se mettre sur la gueule avec d'autres pays après tout 😂

[@bencesilling5862]

PSG probably has the whole f-ing Hogwarts 💀💀

[@KINGoftheHunters]

Bye bye 🧏🏻‍♂️🤫

[@maccurtis730]

French watch an episode of Wipeout, French: "Where are the jousting staffs this looks too safe American?"

[@fredericarmoni8555]

pétanque and belotte :o)

[@stefverg797]

Sans oublier le 4 21 😂

[@Kye176]

Those runners must be feeling terrible after that marathon.

[@mcmorea4142]

Actually Tour de France usually starts in another country these day; 2023 Spain, 2022 Denmark 🚴🚴‍♂🚴‍♀🚵🚵‍♂🚵‍♀

[@heikeh.9977]

I want to see French and Spanish fighting about the Tour de France vs La Vuelta, pleeeeeaaaase❤

[@emmanuelguillet6244]

"Laissez-moi savoir si j'ai oublié un sport..." ... Ben... Le Behourd ?

[@keeganlee-guide473]

The odds are 100% because it had occurred.

[@Diveyl]

"I'm an honest referee. They paid for 3:1 and the score will be 3 :1." That is from a polish film about football "Piłkarski poker".

[@francoism.S106]

I’m French and I didn’t knew we have « water jousting » ! 😂

[@batman5299]

There's a vtt version of the marathon du médoc it's called la médocaine.

[@temacort]

Learning even more weird things from my own country is canton candy.

[@steveknight878]

I was expecting something about Pétanque

[@jdprettynails]

I went on a school trip to Paris when I was 12, a woman crashed into me on her bike, yelled at me in French then spat at me when she realised I was English. Luckily my more recent trip to Paris in February was much nicer.

[@czarcoma]

Wait, France has hurricanes?

[@felbas4224]

No, not really. In autumn there is a period with lots of flood risks in the southern area mainly

[@czarcoma]

@@felbas4224 oh. ok... i was really shocked, when French said something about hurricanes.

[@jriver226]

If you do English language sports vid, you should do a dive into the etymology for soccer, football, rugby, and how Australia, Ireland, and the US use football differently than the Brits.

[@GentlemanFrancais]

Sur la partie sur la sorcellerie, il a oublié le sable magique qui a rendu l'équipe de Nantes à la Beaujoire invincible pendant plusieurs années... Grâce à un marabout fan de l'équipe.

[@zemissphere547]

La pétanque 😂

[@GmailDaniel]

Aux États-Unis ils ont aussi leurs lots de sports étranges ;)

[@parlonschiffres]

Il y a aussi le 110 mètres - pastis : c'est un 110 mètres haies, mais à la place des haies, il faut boire un verre de pastis. Les chances de terminer le parcours sont... faibles.

[@Kazejin59]

Dans le Nord en métropole Lilloise, nous avons "La Bourle" On pourrait le comparer au Curling, sauf qu'à la place de la glace on a une piste, installée le plus souvent à l’arrière d’un café qu'on appel "La Bourloire", en revêtement synthétique d’une vingtaine de mètres de long sur une largeur d’environ 3 mètres, est incurvée en son centre créant un dénivelé de 10 à 15 cm entre le milieu et les bords. Ici pas de "pierre" mais un gros disque en bois de 25 à 30 cm de diamètre et de 10 à 15 cm de largeur, pour un poids de 4 à 8 kg et dissymétrique avec un côté plus biseauté, qu'on appel "Bourle". Il existe également une variante Belge avec des bourles de diamètre et de poids différents Il existe encore une trentaine de Bourloires dans le département du Nord, dont treize sont inscrites au titre des monuments historiques

[@AxelQC]

Le tennis

[@samstromberg5593]

Just for the record, Parkour is supposed to be the FASTEST way to get somewhere - you go through or over or under (usually over) instead of around which cuts a lot of time Plus you have to run If you're not running, it feels weird Like what are you going to vault this wall and do a flip over a table and then ... WALK???

[@arvetemecha]

To be fair, we love the "Tour de France" because we love science, so we can see the effects of the last breakthroughs in medicines and drugs.