Solitaire practicing is much more valuable than practicing with friends or practicing only by playing as much matches as possible. Math play is of course also very important, but if I should give a ratio I'd say a good one is one third match play, two thirds (or even more) solitaire.
The reasons behind this are not really obvious, especially because many players experience that they are doing well in solitaire and (relatively) suck in match play, so they are thinking it's the lack of match play practice that causes that. That is, however, wrong.
As a matter of fact every player plays worse in match play than he does in practice. It is of course hard to believe, but even the pros do. And this not only in darts, it is valid for any other sport. To increase our match play performance to NEARLY (exactly of course would be great but it is in fact impossible!) the level of our practice performance we must mainly use sports psychology, because the mental aspects of match play are the reason for this phenomenon (if you are a regular reader of TDT you know that the mental is the most important issue in this project). And note - if you are one of these rare players who say they do better in match play than they do in practice.
But it is still not clear why solitaire practicing is that important. Practicing alone constantly forces you to raise your limit above yourself, and this limit is higher than you might dream of!" So you can nearly infinitely improve your game only by always trying to beat your limit. No matter how good you are, you can always be better. No friendly or rivalry match practiceways can do this when your opponents stick to their level. To say it literally - the only way to make your current personal limit your future standard is practicing alone.
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