How to play darts

In recent two years, in the background of national advocacy of national fitness, the slogans of national sports, fitness become popular. Furthermore, darts are easy to get started. Both young and old people can participate in without much space. 

As a kind of sport which is suitable for long-term participation, darts are popular among broad masses. Many new dart teams began to focus on the problem of “how to play darts?” and “how to play darts well?"

So, how exactly do you play darts? As you all know, you have to have dart equipment. What kind of darts equipment is suitable? It is advisable to use regular equipment, tungsten alloy darts, and hemp dart targets. Long term practice allows you to adapt to regular equipment, while using irregular products for a long time will not meet the standard equipment, which affects the results greatly. Tungsten alloy dart is full of touch and its center of gravity is stable, flight line is easy to master, so it is the top choice that most occupation players would choose.

The next step is to master the basic movements and requirements of darts. Put a dart on the palm along, find the center of gravity, rolling the dart to four fingers tip with the thumb, and then put your thumb a little behind the center of gravity, with fingers holding it. It needs to keep the dart tip upward slightly, the dart must be held stable, but not too tight. It also needs at least three fingers to grip dart. More fingers would be better to control but would be more difficult to release. The fingers which do not hold the dart need to stretch, or remain the same position with other fingers. Clench fist will make the other fingers too nervous, and will make it more difficult to release, and easier to loiter to the dart that flies out, which affects the accuracy.

You should stand behind the dart line. Standing habits vary from person to person, mainly in their own comfortable. The body pitches forward slightly,  with the foot of the same side of the dart is used as the supporting point, and the other foot stretches back naturally to keep balance, sideways, darts hand side of the shoulder darting across the plate, and the upper arm parallel to the shoulder, forearm lift naturally. Remember to keep balance when playing darts.

Besides, you need to pay attention to the cooperation of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. Except the hand, wrist and forearm, other parts of the body, including the shoulder must remain motionless; it needs a swing with inertia when the dart is off hand to ensure the flight path. It’s appropriate when dart is perpendicular to the target or the dart tail is upturned slightly when dart is on the target.

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