Suggestions on How to Plan and Handle The Dart Sessions(II)
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There are some general notes for the coming dart sessions.
First, we should try to practice each day of the week, with not more than 1 or two days off. Even if you can only spend 20 minutes on workdays this is good practice, although you should plan at least one longer practice session on weekends, let's say more than 2 hours if you are serious about improving your game. The frequency postulate can also be used for doing two or more short practice sessions on one day. E.g. play for 15 minutes during lunch hour if you have the chance to, and for another 15 minutes when you come home. German top player Andre Welge used to get up 20 minutes earlier in the morning to get some additional practicing before he went to work. Not anybody's strategy (at least not mine, I REALLY hate getting up early), but a good one.
Second, it not only is frequency better than quantity, intensity also is. Do your practice sessions on a concentration level similar to your match play level. If you find your concentration or motivation dropping during a longer session, go for a pause. Again 15 minutes up to half an hour are okay for such pausing. You can and should also pause if your motivation drops during a practice session, and also when you are unhappy with your game. Better stop and try again a while later with new motivation and awareness. Unconcentrated and unmotivated practice is bad practice. Pro Rod Harrington told me he doesn't practice when he has no fun doing it. In darts there is no use for forcing oneself to practicing, but of course, if you aren't eager to get to the board again after one or two lazy days you will hardly have the personality to become a strong player. In many other sports self-torment (mostly to gain muscle power) is a necessity, but not in darts. Darts is touch and coordination, not physical suffering.
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Suggestion on How to Plan and Handle The Dart Sessions (I)
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How often, how much? This is one of the standard questions I get from players. The general answer is of course not surprising: As often as possible, as much as possible.
But how many people have 8 hours or more per day they can use for practicing darts games? Answer: Maybe the pros and some of the unemployed, but hardly anyone else. So you get your personal answer - use as much time as you can or are willing to afford. If there are 8 hours per day, it is great. If there is 1 hour, it is ok.
However long this time is, you should use it right. 1 hour of intense, aware and motivated practice is better than 8 hours of boredom and so-so arrow tossing. And, as in the headline of this paragraph, frequency is more important than quantity. An example: Player A does 7 or more hours of practicing each Sunday and nothing during the rest of the week.
Player B practices half an hour on workdays, 2 hours on Saturday and then enjoys a lazy Sunday. Guess who uses his time better... yes, frequency is more important than quantity, so player B's regime is much better.
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Barrel Surface Control
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The surface of the barrel is covered by knurling or rings for a safe grip on the dart. Again there is a vast selection of different surface shapes, and combinations of them. And there is the possibility of a plain surface (which beginners are usually unhappy with). Again, it can't be said which variations are the best ones. Choose what suits you, what feels good and what you think you can handle.
There is only one thing you should avoid: painted surfaces. Paint might look good, but usually it makes the dart only more slippery. The probably only exception here is Unicorn's "gold" brand. These darts are covered with a golden coat which they say improves the grip. I have not experienced any differences with these darts, but some people seem to like them. Try and find out for yourself.
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How to Get Prepared for a Dart Match?
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Warming up before league play and tournaments is very important and worth a special paragraph. You should at least do half an hour of concentrated warm-up before important league matches or tournaments. E.g. the pros playing the World Championship are warming up for several hours before the dart match. Eric Bristow used to feel ready for battle only when he got 4 or 5 hours of practice before one single match (which then lasted even shorter than his practice session before). He won the title five times so he seemed to know what he did. Of course such extreme warm-up is rarely possible with tournament starts at AM and league nights right after work.
Once you know your most common problems you will develop your own warm-up routines, like hitting each double at least once or twice or playing round the boards and so on. Of course warm-up is also a situation where you may and should go for increased scoring practice, but still doubles (or trebles for cricket) are more important. If diddle for middle is the rule or if cricket will be played of course bull is important, too.
Remember before the tournament or league it still is solitaires that rules! It is especially dangerous here to stick too much to match play for warm-up because warm-up is a situation where you need to get rid of possible technical problems as soon as possible. This requires your full concentration, and warm-up matches are very likely to put your concentration on winning them instead of fighting your problems! You can of course switch to playing them once your feeling and technique are set for the day, but not earlier.
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Tungsten Darts Threads
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The tungsten darts threads are called "2BA" which follows a British norm. Older brass darts often have a 1/4 inch thread. These two tungsten threads dart are not compatible. 1/4 inch tungsten darts threads are as ancient as brass darts are, so there usually is no need to worry about that when buying a tungsten threads dart. Standard shafts or soft/movable tips you buy are equipped with the 2BA thread, so problems with incompatibility of the threads should not occur.
However, there are some pitfalls. Some dart manufacturers supply darts with "alternative" attachment methods. machine.Heads is such an example. The shaft of this dart isn't attached with a tungsten darts threads, it is attached through just a thin whole and a rubber tube to fix it. This system is unique -- as good or as bad as the thread system, but you have to take into account that for shafts for this system you will have to rely on the manufacturer. For other companies supplying a shaft only for such special series is not economical.
Tungsten darts threads easy to manufacture.Another company are using the 2BA thread, but the outside measures of their tungsten darts threads flight ends are slightly bigger than those from other manufacturers. This means that shafts won't give a plain cut between dart and shaft on darts. The shaft will slightly jut out on any other dart. Of course all other shafts will be slightly thinner than the barrel if attached to a dart.
The bottom line is, if you are buying a new dart take your old spare parts with you to see if you can use them on your new dart. If you buy your first dart set, try to attach the cheap standard spare parts of the shop to this dart, not the ones that are shipped with the tungsten darts threads when you open the box.
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