I did it... happy dance time
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
blah 501 cricket hmm...
ok I am working through my problem... I am getting lazy in my back swing... when I focus on that I am hitting... I went rediculasly cold on 17? hmm... maybee I am getting better and whatever flaw I had that was making me better at various numbers is gone... but I am hitting 16 & 18 now just as poorly as the rest... I am hitting trip 7,2, & 4 like mad... just under the 16, 15, & 18.
The two games I finished over or at 2 mpt today I finished with a hat trick... picks below... the last game I finshed with 4 darts in a row in the bull double, single, single, single. I am all over bulls lately but can't seam to find a grove other places.
ok after I finished this blog I threw for 10 more minutes... and hit this near dead eye... Man I am pounding the bulls...
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The two games I finished over or at 2 mpt today I finished with a hat trick... picks below... the last game I finshed with 4 darts in a row in the bull double, single, single, single. I am all over bulls lately but can't seam to find a grove other places.
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ok after I finished this blog I threw for 10 more minutes... and hit this near dead eye... Man I am pounding the bulls...
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A few game of shootout
ok I threw a few games of shootout today... I thought I was throwing like garbage... but then I found it again... and threw a pretty good game until my wife interuped me... but I still finished ok and threw my best game of shootout ever... I always throw 20 turns at the 20's...
If you notice I threw fewer 100+ shots than in other game... I thew a bunch of 80's... several 83's and a 95 in there...
| Date | Time | 3 Dart Av | Throws | < 60 | 100 | 140 | 180 |
| 11/29/2005 | 19:23:32 | 62.1 | 20 | 55.00% | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11/29/2005 | 19:11:48 | 47.95 | 20 | 75.00% | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/29/2005 | 19:03:41 | 48.76 | 21 | 66.67% | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/29/2005 | 18:54:48 | 43.9 | 20 | 65.00% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11/6/2005 | 21:12:50 | 55.55 | 20 | 65.00% | 1 | 1 | 0 |
If you notice I threw fewer 100+ shots than in other game... I thew a bunch of 80's... several 83's and a 95 in there...
ouch hat trick
Ok I had a horrible day of practice... I had a bunch of 35+ games of 501 and struggled to find a rithm... but I did throw for about 4&1/2 hours... early I was just throwing bulls and working on my throw... I think my arm got fatigued... Early in my practice I hit a hat trick though...
So all in all it wasn't bad... but I did throw a 1.68 MPT game of single cricket... yuck... hopefully it will go better tonight.
So all in all it wasn't bad... but I did throw a 1.68 MPT game of single cricket... yuck... hopefully it will go better tonight.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Bob's 29 scored 53
I finally finished Bob's 29 and scored 53... had 25 when on 19's hit a 19 giving me 63... needed to hit a double 20 or double bull... hit the double 20 on my second dart... :-)
Monday, November 21, 2005
Yeah!!!! doh... 140
My wife was getting anoyed as I kept saying look I almost got it (first 140 of the day)... then again on 133... then I hit 66 she rolled her eyes... and gave me that "let me watch Oprah" look... Then
I thought I hit it... I was practicing and I yelled "got it"... and took a step towards the board...
I then said... No...and dropped to my knees and rolled on my back and looked at the cealing for a few minutes. I thought that might have happened. It hit the dart near the top of the tripple 20. I figured it just rode right down... BUT...
180 is on the way... I am getting very close... maybe I'll hit it against Junior's...
Because I know Zeeple and other love to see darts... Here is my collection
Set #1
These were my second set of darts. My first set was 26 gram predators that were ripped off at a bar. These I bought as a replacement. I originally bought a 23 gram set but when I got them home and tried to replace the shafts I realized the shafts I took out took the threads with them so I went back before closing and got the same darts (or so I though). It turns out these darts are 22 gram darts. The are very short an barely front weighted. I really like the dart. Aluminum shafts & Dimplex flights
Set #2
These I got when my elbow (ulnar nerve) hurt so bad I couldn't throw (right handed). So these are my lefty darts. Also these darts are the darts Rob uses when he borrows my darts at the bar. They are 28 gram predators. They are bombs, and they are front loaded. I like the look of these darts. Aluminum shafts and dimplex flights
Set #3
I was itching to get a new set of darts. I thew a tun followed by a hat trick with these darts when I picked them up. I then thew with them for about 20 minutes and then decided I liked them. They were flying straighter for me. Now they fly very much like my old darts (#1) but I have a more consistent grip with the narrower barrel. They are 20 gram hammer heads. Spinning shafts (came with the darts) and dimplex flights. Not sure If I like the spinning shafts or not.
I thought I hit it... I was practicing and I yelled "got it"... and took a step towards the board...
I then said... No...and dropped to my knees and rolled on my back and looked at the cealing for a few minutes. I thought that might have happened. It hit the dart near the top of the tripple 20. I figured it just rode right down... BUT...
180 is on the way... I am getting very close... maybe I'll hit it against Junior's...
Because I know Zeeple and other love to see darts... Here is my collection
Set #1
These were my second set of darts. My first set was 26 gram predators that were ripped off at a bar. These I bought as a replacement. I originally bought a 23 gram set but when I got them home and tried to replace the shafts I realized the shafts I took out took the threads with them so I went back before closing and got the same darts (or so I though). It turns out these darts are 22 gram darts. The are very short an barely front weighted. I really like the dart. Aluminum shafts & Dimplex flights
Set #2
These I got when my elbow (ulnar nerve) hurt so bad I couldn't throw (right handed). So these are my lefty darts. Also these darts are the darts Rob uses when he borrows my darts at the bar. They are 28 gram predators. They are bombs, and they are front loaded. I like the look of these darts. Aluminum shafts and dimplex flights
Set #3
I was itching to get a new set of darts. I thew a tun followed by a hat trick with these darts when I picked them up. I then thew with them for about 20 minutes and then decided I liked them. They were flying straighter for me. Now they fly very much like my old darts (#1) but I have a more consistent grip with the narrower barrel. They are 20 gram hammer heads. Spinning shafts (came with the darts) and dimplex flights. Not sure If I like the spinning shafts or not.
120 on 150 ... doh
Ok so friday we went out and I hit 120 on the first two darts in 301 but only had 150 left...so do I try for the 180 and bust just to hit the 180... well I went for the double 15 and missed... hit single 15... the took out 15 with 3 double 6...
Oh well..
We decided to play hockey after that... silly game but you have to hit a bull to get the puck and then a double to score a goal... double bull counts as steel the puck and score... one turn missed the bull high... then double bull... and stayed there and hit another... guy I was playing throught it was awesome... me too!
Working on my form and getting better... I will hit that illusive 180 yet... BTW I am hitting 2 trips more often lately... hit 2 trip 18's, two trip 15's, and two trip 17's as well on first two darts on friday...
Will put in a practice session tonight...
Oh well..
We decided to play hockey after that... silly game but you have to hit a bull to get the puck and then a double to score a goal... double bull counts as steel the puck and score... one turn missed the bull high... then double bull... and stayed there and hit another... guy I was playing throught it was awesome... me too!
Working on my form and getting better... I will hit that illusive 180 yet... BTW I am hitting 2 trips more often lately... hit 2 trip 18's, two trip 15's, and two trip 17's as well on first two darts on friday...
Will put in a practice session tonight...
Friday, November 18, 2005
trails & league
I played in a singles tourney and made it past the first round... I won my 301 dido... lost the cricket... then won the 501 fido... I doubled out on my first try in the had 52 with one dart left and hit a 20... then next turn hit 16, double 8... took out 60 in my dido game 20, 20, double 10... Lost in the second round to a 112 out in 301 and a hat trick on bulls in the cricket game... The I got partnered up with the guy who beat me in the blind draw doubles and we WON!!!
League... we were on pace for another write up in doubles 501 we had our first attempt to double out on dart # 25. The other team doubled on dart #33 and got the writeup. I wired out double 8, double 4... on my turn... right before them... oh well. We won 6-5 and I lost 2 out of 3 doubles games... ?
We have a bye week then Juniors. I really want to beat Juniors.
I hit a hat trick again after our match in a game against steve. I also hit a 140 in warm-up... 1st 2 beautifull 3rd dart low... I know I will hit it when I stop getting so excited when I hit the first two... Kind of like hat tricks... I don't get excited when I hit two bulls... it's no big deal... strangely I didn't get excited when I hit the two double bulls and hence I hit the 3rd one for the dead eye a while back...
Note to self... I threw ok but for some reason I was just not hitting tripples durring the league game. I did hit a couple tuns in x01 but I failed to hit a single tripple in my 2 cricket games??? I even struggled to hit bulls a bit... my first turn at bulls was double and a single... then 10 straight misses and we lost? We were down 100 points but still I only had to hit 4 bulls in 10 darts to catch up... I should do that... after league I hit a bunch of trips in pickup games with Jason... all those "just missed tripples" started dropping in. I think it was because I was playing singles games... it is hard for me to get in a rithm in those team/doulbes games...
BTW Zeeple I love my new darts but wish they were fixed point... movable point is great but when it jiggles around it bugs me... put a rubber washer on the point so it stays tight and doesn't loosen up perhaps that will fix it from comming loose...
League... we were on pace for another write up in doubles 501 we had our first attempt to double out on dart # 25. The other team doubled on dart #33 and got the writeup. I wired out double 8, double 4... on my turn... right before them... oh well. We won 6-5 and I lost 2 out of 3 doubles games... ?
We have a bye week then Juniors. I really want to beat Juniors.
I hit a hat trick again after our match in a game against steve. I also hit a 140 in warm-up... 1st 2 beautifull 3rd dart low... I know I will hit it when I stop getting so excited when I hit the first two... Kind of like hat tricks... I don't get excited when I hit two bulls... it's no big deal... strangely I didn't get excited when I hit the two double bulls and hence I hit the 3rd one for the dead eye a while back...
Note to self... I threw ok but for some reason I was just not hitting tripples durring the league game. I did hit a couple tuns in x01 but I failed to hit a single tripple in my 2 cricket games??? I even struggled to hit bulls a bit... my first turn at bulls was double and a single... then 10 straight misses and we lost? We were down 100 points but still I only had to hit 4 bulls in 10 darts to catch up... I should do that... after league I hit a bunch of trips in pickup games with Jason... all those "just missed tripples" started dropping in. I think it was because I was playing singles games... it is hard for me to get in a rithm in those team/doulbes games...
BTW Zeeple I love my new darts but wish they were fixed point... movable point is great but when it jiggles around it bugs me... put a rubber washer on the point so it stays tight and doesn't loosen up perhaps that will fix it from comming loose...
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Darts: managing the elbow
Ok its going well... have learned the difference between OK pain and bad pain with my elbow... ok poping and bad poping... so I am managing it ok... did some practice this week and didn't blow league by having elbow problems... although I did have to take 800mg of moltrin to get the inflamation down so it would stop poping... (the poping is my ulnar nerve prolapsing over the bone of the elbow and it feals like you hit your funny bone... and makes my ring and pinky finger go numb if it happens to much... )...
So I beat Ryan at cricket in a warmup game... must have averaged over 3 darts per turn in that game... Had a couple 5 dart turns... (19's, 17's) had a 6 dart turn (single 16, trip 16 (to close)... and trip 15)... then double bull on first turn... then double dull on next turn... also 3 fat one's the 20's and 18's... there was also some scoring back and forth between my 19's and 17's vs his 20's and 18's... either way I rarely beat him and finally I did so by throwing a good game vs his good game.
I threw well durring league... we got another 2 write-ups... Ryan and I threw a 36 dart 501 dido... not that great but it is a write-up in our league... ??? we also thew a 37 dart 601 DIDO team game (4 of us)... not quite as good as our 28 darter last week but solid. I think we would win every game if we got under 40 darts...
After leage I played Steve who I have been tutoring. He is making progress and as he says... He likes to test himself against his teacher... The first game was almost close and then I blanked 3 turns on bulls and he closed bulls in one turn and scored 25 on them... and we were in a 1-to-1 bull race... I then hit... Next game I closed everything and even hit a hat trick to end the game. When it was over he only had 18's closed, 1 19, and 1 20. All the tripples and 3 fatties freaked him out.
Next week we play Junior's Darters... and they are the team that got under my skin... I am going to throw mad darts against them... we will win!
I wish I could practice every day... I want to throw tonight... as I am off tomorrow but I might just take the nite off and watch ER with my wife and then go to a tourney tomorrow.
So I beat Ryan at cricket in a warmup game... must have averaged over 3 darts per turn in that game... Had a couple 5 dart turns... (19's, 17's) had a 6 dart turn (single 16, trip 16 (to close)... and trip 15)... then double bull on first turn... then double dull on next turn... also 3 fat one's the 20's and 18's... there was also some scoring back and forth between my 19's and 17's vs his 20's and 18's... either way I rarely beat him and finally I did so by throwing a good game vs his good game.
I threw well durring league... we got another 2 write-ups... Ryan and I threw a 36 dart 501 dido... not that great but it is a write-up in our league... ??? we also thew a 37 dart 601 DIDO team game (4 of us)... not quite as good as our 28 darter last week but solid. I think we would win every game if we got under 40 darts...
After leage I played Steve who I have been tutoring. He is making progress and as he says... He likes to test himself against his teacher... The first game was almost close and then I blanked 3 turns on bulls and he closed bulls in one turn and scored 25 on them... and we were in a 1-to-1 bull race... I then hit... Next game I closed everything and even hit a hat trick to end the game. When it was over he only had 18's closed, 1 19, and 1 20. All the tripples and 3 fatties freaked him out.
Next week we play Junior's Darters... and they are the team that got under my skin... I am going to throw mad darts against them... we will win!
I wish I could practice every day... I want to throw tonight... as I am off tomorrow but I might just take the nite off and watch ER with my wife and then go to a tourney tomorrow.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
two 140's
Ok I hit 2 140's today in practice... one in a single cricket game one in a shootout game... ok posted the following single cricket aves:
happy with my throw... also posted a 55.55 ave in 20 turns at shootout... and hit a 140... hit a 86 also... trip 20, & 2 trip 1's lol
also just missed a hat trick 2nd dart deflected out... but I thought it was in...
- 1.29 ouch.. couldn't bull
- 2.62 had the 140 and two double bulls to close
- 1.73 solid
- 2.89 if I would have stopped after closing bulls my second turn after it it would have been a +3 game...
happy with my throw... also posted a 55.55 ave in 20 turns at shootout... and hit a 140... hit a 86 also... trip 20, & 2 trip 1's lol
also just missed a hat trick 2nd dart deflected out... but I thought it was in...
Thursday, November 03, 2005
New Grip stinks
ok I gave up on the new grip... I can't use it.. I can group darts just not where I am aiming... alot of good that is... not enough feel... I went back to my old grip and found that my elbow was sticking out to the side when I throw... when I pull it in I am speratic on high and low and sometimes go way left... if I don't pull it in I miss high left or low right... so I noticed that sometimes I walk up and my elbows is perfectly under my wrist and on those turns good things usually happen... so I started moving on the line... and I found that as I move left and right my elbow chages position relative to my wrist (for one aiming point like trip 20)... I know I could turn my body but it is still requires me to move my feet to turn as I would just rotate my trunk as I would be in a non-relaxed position. So paying attention to that really helped last nite... and strangely enough when I fixed the elbow thing... my darts flew straight... no wobble... The darts still point a bit to the right... but not much at all.
On a funny note one of the guys was talking about this guy who threw is darts backwards... durring the tues league... (flight first)... and they flip over... so I tried it and hit a tun... everyone thought is was funny so I tried it again and hit 85... tried to throw at bulls but missed... how long it takes your dart to flip over is very random... lol...
On a funny note one of the guys was talking about this guy who threw is darts backwards... durring the tues league... (flight first)... and they flip over... so I tried it and hit a tun... everyone thought is was funny so I tried it again and hit 85... tried to throw at bulls but missed... how long it takes your dart to flip over is very random... lol...
