| Bocce Ball Hobby | | | | target ball. Another time, at the park we |
| | | | threw the ball under a pine tree or over or |
| 15th March 2007 | | | | behind, or among some pine trees. It makes a |
| | | | little more fun to try different things. |
| Author: Peter Jay | | | | |
| | | | You could also try playing bocce ball in the |
| Well, I haven't played bocce ball in a while, | | | | mountains. You could play on a rocky terrain |
| but it is a fun hobby. I wish I had a bocce | | | | where your bocce balls could bounce away when |
| ball set so that I could play again. The | | | | they hit the rocks. You can play by water if |
| first time I ever played was on a group date | | | | you like; you can play by a pond or stream, |
| with a married couple. They kept talking | | | | as many golfers do at golf courses. You can |
| about this game that they always play from | | | | play on a sloped up or down hill where you |
| Italy, called bocce ball. That was before it | | | | have to compensate for the ball rolling down |
| really caught on in the United States. Now | | | | the hill. |
| it seems like many people know about. | | | | |
| | | | Bocce ball has really caught on in some parts |
| Bocce ball is a game where you just toss the | | | | of the United States. It seems like many |
| bocce balls against another ball. First, you | | | | people know about it now. More and more |
| throw the first ball. There are two teams. | | | | people are realizing how fun it is and |
| One team then throws a bocce ball and tries | | | | starting their bocce ball hobbies. It's nice |
| to get their bocce ball to land as close as | | | | as well, because bocce ball is kind of a laid |
| possible to the target ball, the first ball | | | | back, slow game, that is still fun, but you |
| that was thrown. The other team then tries | | | | can still talk about things, kind of like |
| to get their ball closer to the target ball. | | | | golf. You can talk and joke around while |
| It is kind of like the winter sport of | | | | still playing the game and entertaining |
| curling. The person or team who gets their | | | | yourselves. |
| bocce ball closest to the target ball wins. | | | | |
| The points are then allocated by how many | | | | There is some strategy to playing bocce ball. |
| bocce balls the winning team has closer to | | | | It makes a difference who goes first and |
| the target ball, then the team that didn't | | | | last. Do you want to hit the target ball? |
| have a bocce ball closest to the target ball. | | | | Do you want to hit the other teams bocce ball |
| | | | with yours when you throw, to hit their ball |
| The nice thing about bocce ball is that you | | | | further away from the target ball, at the |
| can play it wherever and whenever you want. | | | | same time risking that your ball may not be |
| It's a simple game with simple rules, but | | | | as close because of it. Some people can even |
| it's somewhat addicting and you can play for | | | | get pretty competitive playing bocce ball. |
| hours, and you can play often without getting | | | | Bocce ball games can get pretty intense |
| bored with it. It's also nice because once | | | | sometimes. |
| you get yourself a bocce ball set you can go | | | | |
| play as often as you want for free. Just | | | | So, if you want to start a good hobby that |
| take the family to the park or even to the | | | | you can do often for entertainment, then go |
| backyard, or invite a date over or to the | | | | and get yourself some bocce ball sets. You |
| park and play a game of bocce ball. | | | | can even play by yourself if you want. Just |
| | | | throw the target ball, and then start tossing |
| One thing I like to do when I play bocce ball | | | | the bocce balls at it, although it is |
| is to play on different and various terrains. | | | | probably much more fun to play with other |
| It adds a whole new level of bocce ball | | | | people. |
| playing experience to play on different | | | | |
| terrains. Usually people play in the park on | | | | This article was written by Peter Jay, owner, |
| the grass in an open field. When playing at | | | | president, and CEO of Variety Access, Your |
| the park, sometimes it is fun to have an | | | | Online Bocce Ball Hobby Store and More. You |
| obstacle in the way. Once we played where we | | | | can find bocce balls at Variety Access |
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| a baseball field and had to throw our bocce | | | | bocce-balls.php. |
| balls over it as well, to get close to the | | | | |