Court Profile: La Petanca
| April 13, 2009
La Petanca
Torrent de Santa Anna
08330, Premià de Mar
Barcelona, Spain
Level of Competition: Ranging from intermediate to advanced. Some of the best local ballers (and many of them have already been featured on Ballers Network) play there every day during summer.
Court Status: La Petanca is the preferred court of the ballers of Premià and rivalry with the neighbouring court of Boet, in Mataró, is very high. The ballers of Premià are proud to say their court is superior, as it has better quality blackboards and rims.
Court specs: 1 full court with all lines painted. The court is a little bit narrower and longer than the regular basketball courts.
Surface: Concrete.
Blackboards: Wooden.
Rims: Metal/no break-away.
Nets: Both rims have their nets, but they aren’t in perfect state.
Lights: Yes, there are posts with lights that get switched on every day at night.
Hoop Support Structure: Metallic posts fixed with concrete to the ground.
Hours of Operation: Every day at any time.
Type of Play: 3×3, 4×4 and sometimes 5×5.
Pay-to-Play: No.
League Play: No. Just pick-up games.
Best time to Play: Every day during summer. Sunday afternoons during the rest of the year.
The Deal: La Petanca is a very old court, that always has been loved by the ballers of Premià because of the good quality of the court surface, blackboards and rims.
The level of play is quite high and good enough to play some exciting pick-up games that make every player give his best. The best games can be seen during summer or sunday afternoons during the rest of the year. We already know some of the ballers of Premià (Joan “Peto” Sánchez, Jos, J-Regi and Raúl Araujo have already featured at Ballers Network).
There is a special rivalry with the court of Boet, in the neighbouring town of Mataró. The ballers of La Petanca prefer their court because of its infrastructure: better rims, better surface… However the rivalry is not just about the quality of the court, but also about the quality of the ballers. The locals of La Petanca claim they usually win when playing 5×5.
Jaime Martínez Lafargue is the BallersNetwork.com blogger for Spain. Jaime is the Editor-in-chief of basketball website Solobasket.com. You can reach him at jaime@solobasket.com.
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