The new Darts
So far I love these things! Martin Adams (Datadarts) 24 grams.
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
100 at 20's over 100
I completed another of my resolutions. I scored 112 at 20's in 100 darts with 17 trips. I hit a couple 7 counts and almost had a 180.
Friday, January 20, 2006
2 Bob's 29 finishes
I finished bob's 29 twice tonight. First time I finished with 96 points the second time I finished with 253! One dart resolution down 5 more to go!
I have improved more than I throught
10-12-2004 1.041
10-12-2004 1.291
10-20-2004 1.3
10-20-2004 1.18
10-20-2004 1.43
11-20-2004 0.95
11-20-2004 1.47
Those were all marks per turn in singles cricket... I remember the 1.47 game I thought that was awesome! lol... By March of 2005 I was consisntently over 1.5 and having some games over 2.0. I think I need to do some more 100 at the 20's.
10-12-2004 1.291
10-20-2004 1.3
10-20-2004 1.18
10-20-2004 1.43
11-20-2004 0.95
11-20-2004 1.47
Those were all marks per turn in singles cricket... I remember the 1.47 game I thought that was awesome! lol... By March of 2005 I was consisntently over 1.5 and having some games over 2.0. I think I need to do some more 100 at the 20's.
I have a problem
I can't stop wanting to get more darts. For some reason... eventhough I am throwing my 20 gram hammer heads fairly well I want new darts. I feel like I am fighting my darts. Well more like I lack the feel to throw them well for very long. Like it is super easy for me to completely loose my rithm. I can throw them so so if it use a very jerky throwing motion but I tend to wank to the right and loose fine control that way. I just end up spraying... so trips are luck. When I throw smooth I have a hard time keeping the feel. When I have it I am very very accurate and trips come... like if I hit just low I can put the next one right above it. Other times I am all over the place.
I got a set of 24 gram darts for Christmas but I just can't get them to go in the board at the angle I want... (slightly tail up)... I can throw really good groupings but I also have a really hard time putting a dart under a dart that is tail down. I just can't do it. I also can't stack darts when they are flying like that. But I could put 3 right next to each other. 24 grams seams to give me more feel for the release point.
I went to the dart shop today and threw some Purists 24 gram... I liked them but they went in the board like Taylor does it (Not accuracy but angle)... straight or just a bit tail down... urg... tried longer shafts and for some reason that made it worse... I went back to short and was able to throw them well enough.. but not better than my 20 gram hammer heads... so I tried out some Martin Adams 24 gram darts. They were short and have the grip I like. I really liked them. I need to keep the speed up on them or they really drop at the end for me but they fly just right for me. The go in just tail up and I love the feel I get with them. I am going to throw with them over the next couple days and see if I can achieve the same scores with them as I am accustomed to.
I really think these darts will allow me to practice throwing smoothly and thus make the breakthrough to the next level I am looking for. I want to throw 2.0-2.4 ho hum games of cricket with my good games in the 2.5-2.8 range with the once a session +3 mpt game. I want to get my x01 ave up to the mid 50's and throw some games in the 60+ mpt range at least once a session (1/5 games).
I just hope the wife doesn't get too mad I bought more darts...
I got a set of 24 gram darts for Christmas but I just can't get them to go in the board at the angle I want... (slightly tail up)... I can throw really good groupings but I also have a really hard time putting a dart under a dart that is tail down. I just can't do it. I also can't stack darts when they are flying like that. But I could put 3 right next to each other. 24 grams seams to give me more feel for the release point.
I went to the dart shop today and threw some Purists 24 gram... I liked them but they went in the board like Taylor does it (Not accuracy but angle)... straight or just a bit tail down... urg... tried longer shafts and for some reason that made it worse... I went back to short and was able to throw them well enough.. but not better than my 20 gram hammer heads... so I tried out some Martin Adams 24 gram darts. They were short and have the grip I like. I really liked them. I need to keep the speed up on them or they really drop at the end for me but they fly just right for me. The go in just tail up and I love the feel I get with them. I am going to throw with them over the next couple days and see if I can achieve the same scores with them as I am accustomed to.
I really think these darts will allow me to practice throwing smoothly and thus make the breakthrough to the next level I am looking for. I want to throw 2.0-2.4 ho hum games of cricket with my good games in the 2.5-2.8 range with the once a session +3 mpt game. I want to get my x01 ave up to the mid 50's and throw some games in the 60+ mpt range at least once a session (1/5 games).
I just hope the wife doesn't get too mad I bought more darts...
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Faux Deadeye
I hit a Faux Deadeye (Zeeple coined the term) today. I hit the first two then a junk dart that almost hit the tripple ring... so I rethrew it... Not quite a Faux Deadeye as the term Zeeple and I have come up with is for the one you know you hit but you got a bounce out... either way... its a cool picture
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3mpt
ok I did it today I played a singles cricket game and finished with 3 mpt. On the nose. I was at 4.10 going into bulls in a game earlier in the day and the phone rang... got me mad and then I finished with 1.89 urg... I got flustered and threw a 1.5 and then a 1.17 just short of my worst recorded game ever of 1.14mpt. So the next game I started off with a 5 mark and hit a 7 mark on 18's later. I finished bulls in 2 turns and finished right on the 3.0 mpt.
My ho hum games are moving to 1.8 where my ho hum games were 1.5. I am sure it is my ability to hit more than one bull a turn now. I am edging up. My month ave is sitting at 2.02 mpt. My best ever recorded month ave was 1.90 in Nov. I have played more games this month also. Before today I was at 2.04 so that 3.0 game didn't throw off the ave....
My ho hum games are moving to 1.8 where my ho hum games were 1.5. I am sure it is my ability to hit more than one bull a turn now. I am edging up. My month ave is sitting at 2.02 mpt. My best ever recorded month ave was 1.90 in Nov. I have played more games this month also. Before today I was at 2.04 so that 3.0 game didn't throw off the ave....
criticism
I wrote this to a collegue of mine after he apologized just in case his comments on a document I wrote were to anoying. I quickly proofed it before sending it and I was impressed by what I wrote... I liked it so much I decided I would save it here to make sure I never forget the idea behind what I wrote
Ah… criticism is to be accepted and rejected. Those who are annoyed by it will never learn. Accepting the possibility of one’s own fallibility is the first step in true learning.
So… I never tread lightly when offering criticism. If you are not open to hearing you might have been wrong, then a softly worded critique will go away with stern disdain. But I digress… In our culture criticism is seen as rude… I therefore believe it is actually a sign of trust and friendship (professional or otherwise)… because criticism is seen as rude, one offering it must feel close enough to the receiver to be so intimate. Yet there are others who are just so rude and forward, as to offer unsolicited critique. In this case I asked so no apology necessary… on the contrary… THANK YOU. And never hesitate to offer me suggestions for improvement or condemnation for my wrong doings.
Ah… criticism is to be accepted and rejected. Those who are annoyed by it will never learn. Accepting the possibility of one’s own fallibility is the first step in true learning.
So… I never tread lightly when offering criticism. If you are not open to hearing you might have been wrong, then a softly worded critique will go away with stern disdain. But I digress… In our culture criticism is seen as rude… I therefore believe it is actually a sign of trust and friendship (professional or otherwise)… because criticism is seen as rude, one offering it must feel close enough to the receiver to be so intimate. Yet there are others who are just so rude and forward, as to offer unsolicited critique. In this case I asked so no apology necessary… on the contrary… THANK YOU. And never hesitate to offer me suggestions for improvement or condemnation for my wrong doings.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
practice
I threw some games of 501 on dartpro. My running 3 dart ave is just under 43. I threw 4 games and 3 were over my ave and 1 under. I also thew 3 games of singles cricket and had a 1.5 mpt, 1.78 mpt, and a 2.04 mpt game. Not great. The 1.78 game I didn't hit a single treble?
I noticed I was a bit jerky in my throw. I was trying to remember what it felt like when I hit my 180 and my 154 (3 trip 18's)... I remember it feeling smooth and not jerky. So I started trying to throw smooth... I noticed I was off initially but after I warmed up throwing that way I got much more accurate with much fewer wanks to the right...
I am in the middle of a slump. I need to work through it and get back to the days when I was throwing high 50, 3 dart aves and consistently over 2mpt cricket. I also noticed my Bob's 29 is no longer as good. I am checking out around 10 now and I was consistently making it to 12-16 before. I need to practice throwing smooth again.
I noticed I was a bit jerky in my throw. I was trying to remember what it felt like when I hit my 180 and my 154 (3 trip 18's)... I remember it feeling smooth and not jerky. So I started trying to throw smooth... I noticed I was off initially but after I warmed up throwing that way I got much more accurate with much fewer wanks to the right...
I am in the middle of a slump. I need to work through it and get back to the days when I was throwing high 50, 3 dart aves and consistently over 2mpt cricket. I also noticed my Bob's 29 is no longer as good. I am checking out around 10 now and I was consistently making it to 12-16 before. I need to practice throwing smooth again.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
133 x2
I threw ok at league yesterday. I corked for my team 4 times and hit 3 bulls with one double. In my first game (doubles 501) I corked and hit one. Then followed that up with a 133. We ended up with a 28 dart game. Not supurb but solid for our league. I then drew the other teams best player in my singles cricket. It was a battle. The score was in the 500's but I lost. I probably should have broke from theory and killed the 17's because they couldn't miss the trip 17.
I drew him again in my singles 501 and thew a bunch of 41's and lost. He hit 2 100's and a 140 against me.
I stunk it up in my doubles cricket but my partnet couldn't hit anything. We both had good groupings but an example was I hit 3 trip 3's when aimin at 19, two of which were wire 19's... Rob hit 2 trip 10's and a single 15 in one turn all three touching the trip 15 wire... oh well.
We won 8-5 and I went 1 win 3 losses. I just haven't had a nite yet were I was on, start to finish. I have however played the other teams #1 player in my singles games two weeks in a row.
I did play Pitts after league. He currenlty is undefeated yet against some fluff competition. We played the tourney format from out here 301(dido), cricket, 501 fido (sido). I won the 301 dido. Then won the cricket. Then decided to pay the 501 anyways. I hit a 133 in the game and then took out 60. My friend (team captain) was joking that the prefered out was 10 double bull. I was up by over 140 and my last two turns I was ON... so I through the 10... then wack double bull! I then appologized to Pitts for taking it out that way (arogantly). OH... we corked in this game to go first and I hit 1/2 (I let him go first in the last game).
I think my elbow is ok and I am going to try to practice a bit this week. Oh I also hit a 140 in warm up.
I drew him again in my singles 501 and thew a bunch of 41's and lost. He hit 2 100's and a 140 against me.
I stunk it up in my doubles cricket but my partnet couldn't hit anything. We both had good groupings but an example was I hit 3 trip 3's when aimin at 19, two of which were wire 19's... Rob hit 2 trip 10's and a single 15 in one turn all three touching the trip 15 wire... oh well.
We won 8-5 and I went 1 win 3 losses. I just haven't had a nite yet were I was on, start to finish. I have however played the other teams #1 player in my singles games two weeks in a row.
I did play Pitts after league. He currenlty is undefeated yet against some fluff competition. We played the tourney format from out here 301(dido), cricket, 501 fido (sido). I won the 301 dido. Then won the cricket. Then decided to pay the 501 anyways. I hit a 133 in the game and then took out 60. My friend (team captain) was joking that the prefered out was 10 double bull. I was up by over 140 and my last two turns I was ON... so I through the 10... then wack double bull! I then appologized to Pitts for taking it out that way (arogantly). OH... we corked in this game to go first and I hit 1/2 (I let him go first in the last game).
I think my elbow is ok and I am going to try to practice a bit this week. Oh I also hit a 140 in warm up.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Numb fingers
urggg... elbow hurts... arm hurts... fingers going numb... can't practice darts... MAD!!!! So agrivated!!!!!!! Hate my ulnar nerve...
Reading Artemis Fowl... the 4rth book and one of the characters has a pet peave about sentences like "Hate my ulnar nerve."... since it isn't a complete sentence... lol...
Arm dead from first league nite... did a bunch of practicing the 2 days leading up to it.. my arm was popping all day before league and my fingers (ring and pinky) went numb a couple times during the day... So I took a bunch of Ibuprophen and went to league... I was ok at the beginning and hit my double to win our doubles 501... but then threw so/so the rest of the nite... My arm is killing me now.
I bought a new Dual Shock ps2 controller. One of the same ones that come with the ps2... and broke out Fight Nite Round 2 yesterday. I really like that game! I also had to break out my right handed golf glove... My thumb is still a bit sore... I pretty much stink at the game. I am good at defense but can't really throw the big hay makers. Perhaps the next version of the game (I preordered yesterday) will make it a bit more interesting.
There are not many guys that throw 50 punches a round with 25 super hard swings in there... and keep it up for 8-10 rounds. I guy might throw hard in spurts... so perhaps they will reduce the emphasis on the haymaker. Also I hope they change it so that a hook haymaker doesn't have the same reach as a jab... and I right cross... or straight right can be more powerfull than a hook or uppercut. Take Klitcho(either one)... his straight right is just as powerfull as his hook...
Well I am ready for another seaon of friday nite fights on espn. Just can't wait! Also looking forward to the Lacy fight coming up in a couple weeks... I could care less about the Hopkins-Jones Jr. fight... and the Castillo-Corrales fight will be dissapointing again I am sure. I think Corrales's chin is shot. I would love to see Mayweather vs Hatton... but I don't think I ever will...
I may start a new blog just for my ranting about boxing. I wish I knew somebody who liked boxing. I love to discuss fights... before and after and nobody I know really gets into boxing. My one friend does a bit... but if you ask him about various fighters he only knows about a dozen guys by name.. (Gatti, Ward, Mayweather, Jones Jr., James Toney, Byrd, Ruiz, Rahman, Kitcho's, Hopkins, Taylor.. and maybee a guy or two more like DeLaHoya & winky)... Bring out a name like Tzsu, Pacquiao,Mosley, Vernon Forrest,Vargas... and no clue.
I guess about 3 years ago I was the same. After a bit you learn the weight classes and learn who is who a bit.
Reading Artemis Fowl... the 4rth book and one of the characters has a pet peave about sentences like "Hate my ulnar nerve."... since it isn't a complete sentence... lol...
Arm dead from first league nite... did a bunch of practicing the 2 days leading up to it.. my arm was popping all day before league and my fingers (ring and pinky) went numb a couple times during the day... So I took a bunch of Ibuprophen and went to league... I was ok at the beginning and hit my double to win our doubles 501... but then threw so/so the rest of the nite... My arm is killing me now.
I bought a new Dual Shock ps2 controller. One of the same ones that come with the ps2... and broke out Fight Nite Round 2 yesterday. I really like that game! I also had to break out my right handed golf glove... My thumb is still a bit sore... I pretty much stink at the game. I am good at defense but can't really throw the big hay makers. Perhaps the next version of the game (I preordered yesterday) will make it a bit more interesting.
There are not many guys that throw 50 punches a round with 25 super hard swings in there... and keep it up for 8-10 rounds. I guy might throw hard in spurts... so perhaps they will reduce the emphasis on the haymaker. Also I hope they change it so that a hook haymaker doesn't have the same reach as a jab... and I right cross... or straight right can be more powerfull than a hook or uppercut. Take Klitcho(either one)... his straight right is just as powerfull as his hook...
Well I am ready for another seaon of friday nite fights on espn. Just can't wait! Also looking forward to the Lacy fight coming up in a couple weeks... I could care less about the Hopkins-Jones Jr. fight... and the Castillo-Corrales fight will be dissapointing again I am sure. I think Corrales's chin is shot. I would love to see Mayweather vs Hatton... but I don't think I ever will...
I may start a new blog just for my ranting about boxing. I wish I knew somebody who liked boxing. I love to discuss fights... before and after and nobody I know really gets into boxing. My one friend does a bit... but if you ask him about various fighters he only knows about a dozen guys by name.. (Gatti, Ward, Mayweather, Jones Jr., James Toney, Byrd, Ruiz, Rahman, Kitcho's, Hopkins, Taylor.. and maybee a guy or two more like DeLaHoya & winky)... Bring out a name like Tzsu, Pacquiao,Mosley, Vernon Forrest,Vargas... and no clue.
I guess about 3 years ago I was the same. After a bit you learn the weight classes and learn who is who a bit.
Monday, January 02, 2006
162 baby!
I was playing singles cricket and hit a 162... Not a 180 but just as good... a 9 count! My second lifetime 9 count...
I don't practice with DartPro often enough... usually I get practicing and I practice a few days in a row and my elbow flares up. We will see.... Maybee tomorrow I will not be sore?
Here is my practice log...
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I don't practice with DartPro often enough... usually I get practicing and I practice a few days in a row and my elbow flares up. We will see.... Maybee tomorrow I will not be sore?
Here is my practice log...
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Dart resolutions
- hit more 180's than last year (1 last year)
- hit another dead eye (1 last year)
- hit over 100 20's in 100 darts
- Complete Bob's 29 (Did 1 time last year)
- hit more hat tricks in league than last year (last year 2)
- Advance past the 2nd round in a singles tourney without bye
5 140's and a kinda 180
Ok I threw 4 games of singles cricket with my new darts and didn't average over 2 MPT. I was disgusted. I even had a game going with a 2.89 going into the bulls and ended up averaging something like 1.2 mpt... So I got out the old darts and thew 2/3 games over 2 MPT and had no problems bulling. The one game I had a 1.8 MPT average I just couldn't hit a trip... and took 3 turns to bull hitting one each turn.
My groupings are better with my new darts but I hit exactly what I am aiming for more often with the old ones... and the old ones are trained to hit the bull... lol...
I then threw some 501 fido games... 27,29,27,34,44,45,36 darts to finish... during which I took out 68 twice and 93. 93 is my best in my db. My best 501 game is still 24 darts which I played dido... I thew a 140 in the 34 dart game and a 121 in the final 36 dart game. I took out 68 with 20 D16 D8 and the other time I took it out 16,20,D16... the first time I was aiming trip 20...
Some stats from my 501 fido log...
3 dart Ave = 40.84
Darts per game = 36.8
Turns to close = 3.2
this is my own stat... how many turns after you reach 40 or lower.. I count anything higher as a 0. 6/20 were 0... 12/20 in 3 turns or less.
I then decided to throw shootout sinced I haven't done it in a bit. I thew a 48.65 3 dart ave in the first game (20 turns)... The second game I thew 3 140's and averaged 61.35. I had a 3 and a 7... the 7 was 2 trip 1's and another one... I really thought I almost had a 180 on the one but I hit the top of the one dart and it bounced just out. I know more 180's are coming
Ok the kinda 180 was with the new darts. I thew the first 2 in then the thrid one when in really pointing up and fell out of the board. I picked it up and went back to the line and put it right back in there. Not a true 180 but I'll remember it for confidence.
The new darts... I just can't tune them... I am going back to the old darts. The good thing that came out of this is that I found a grip that gets rid of the left to right wobble I had... and my darts don't stick in the board pointing a bit right anymore. I'll kinda pinch the dart with the thumb and index finger then put my middle finger where the point meets the barrel. I seem to have more feel now too. I like those darts and I thought longer shafts would do the trick... nothing seamed to work when I took them to the dart store and tried a bunch of different shafts and flights...
My groupings are better with my new darts but I hit exactly what I am aiming for more often with the old ones... and the old ones are trained to hit the bull... lol...
I then threw some 501 fido games... 27,29,27,34,44,45,36 darts to finish... during which I took out 68 twice and 93. 93 is my best in my db. My best 501 game is still 24 darts which I played dido... I thew a 140 in the 34 dart game and a 121 in the final 36 dart game. I took out 68 with 20 D16 D8 and the other time I took it out 16,20,D16... the first time I was aiming trip 20...
Some stats from my 501 fido log...
3 dart Ave = 40.84
Darts per game = 36.8
Turns to close = 3.2
this is my own stat... how many turns after you reach 40 or lower.. I count anything higher as a 0. 6/20 were 0... 12/20 in 3 turns or less.
I then decided to throw shootout sinced I haven't done it in a bit. I thew a 48.65 3 dart ave in the first game (20 turns)... The second game I thew 3 140's and averaged 61.35. I had a 3 and a 7... the 7 was 2 trip 1's and another one... I really thought I almost had a 180 on the one but I hit the top of the one dart and it bounced just out. I know more 180's are coming
Ok the kinda 180 was with the new darts. I thew the first 2 in then the thrid one when in really pointing up and fell out of the board. I picked it up and went back to the line and put it right back in there. Not a true 180 but I'll remember it for confidence.
The new darts... I just can't tune them... I am going back to the old darts. The good thing that came out of this is that I found a grip that gets rid of the left to right wobble I had... and my darts don't stick in the board pointing a bit right anymore. I'll kinda pinch the dart with the thumb and index finger then put my middle finger where the point meets the barrel. I seem to have more feel now too. I like those darts and I thought longer shafts would do the trick... nothing seamed to work when I took them to the dart store and tried a bunch of different shafts and flights...
