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Lofty
Posts: 6
Points: 10
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 18
 |  Subject: Practice hours Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:22 pm | |
| I just want to know how many hours a day you all practice? Cheers  |
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kbthfc
Posts: 256
Points: 289
Join date: 2010-01-17
Age: 18
Location: Ireland
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:01 pm | |
| when i dont have anything on i could honestely do 5-6 hours a day but these days its very hard and i usually only get in the 2 hours but today i should get plenty more than that. |
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chrisbamb
Posts: 29
Points: 41
Join date: 2010-12-18
Age: 43
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:39 pm | |
| Mine depends on how well I'm playing.
If I'm playing well I'll practice between 4 and 8 hours.
If I'm playing bad, then I tend to walk away as I feel a bad practice won't really do anything for my game.
Touch wood, I've only had 1 of those so far and it was getting that bad I just put my darts away and left it. Next day when I went back to it I was back on form. |
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The Fenian
Posts: 38
Points: 30
Join date: 2010-01-30
Location: Ireland
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Fri Dec 31, 2010 2:50 pm | |
| 2 hours a day, 4 hours if i`m not working |
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Wazza
Posts: 1236
Points: 1863
Join date: 2009-07-23
Age: 52
Location: Wollongong, Australia
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:21 pm | |
| I personally stagger my practice throughout the day
There is no sens practicing for 2 hours straight if you fins it gets boring. Im different to alot there in the UK. If I dont feel like practicing I wont forve myself to as I know Ill be worse for it.
I have often been sitting down then got up, picked up my darts and went into the practice are and thrown for maybe 5 minutes or an hour, then put my darts down but on average I still get in the amount of time I personally need a day.
I practcie the following
BULLS
DOUBLES
COMBINATION FINISHES
& BOBS 27's |
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kbthfc
Posts: 256
Points: 289
Join date: 2010-01-17
Age: 18
Location: Ireland
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Sun Jan 02, 2011 12:33 am | |
| | Wazza wrote: | I personally stagger my practice throughout the day
There is no sens practicing for 2 hours straight if you fins it gets boring. Im different to alot there in the UK. If I dont feel like practicing I wont forve myself to as I know Ill be worse for it.
I have often been sitting down then got up, picked up my darts and went into the practice are and thrown for maybe 5 minutes or an hour, then put my darts down but on average I still get in the amount of time I personally need a day.
I practcie the following
BULLS
DOUBLES
COMBINATION FINISHES
& BOBS 27's |
Im quite similar to that I also stagger my time alot of the time for long sessions but thats mainly down to my practice enviroment i train in a very very very cold and damp garage so i have to come in and get a cup of tea or something to warm my hands otherwise id probably go 5 hours straight |
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tommy
Team UKD
Posts: 439
Points: 507
Join date: 2010-06-07
Age: 56
Location: Cumbernauld, bonnie Scotland
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Sun Jan 02, 2011 12:58 pm | |
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Nothing worse than trying to play darts with cold hands.
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Lofty
Posts: 6
Points: 10
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 18
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Sun Jan 02, 2011 4:31 pm | |
| Yep, went out and came back home tried throwing a few darts with cold hands, bad idea!  Cheers for the feedback guys |
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kbthfc
Posts: 256
Points: 289
Join date: 2010-01-17
Age: 18
Location: Ireland
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:36 pm | |
| i do blow on my hands after every throw and it helps big time you just blow warm arm on them and get the fingers grippy if you blow cold air your hands get wet and the darts go everywhere it sounds funny but its true haha |
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Geordiesteve
Posts: 1
Points: 1
Join date: 2011-01-12
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:56 am | |
| Hi all, brand spanking new to this forum - have to say really helpful people and advice on here - good work.
I currently use the Uniscore online scorer to practice 'match settings' - wondering what others think of this as a practice method?
Just starting to take darts really seriously over the last couple of months and practicing about 2-3 hours twice on a weekend, and maybe an hour every other night time permitting during the week. Hoping to get confidence and average up to join a team soon.
Out of interest, according the the uniscore my 3 dart average is around 55-58, and generally hit a treble every other 3 darts (stry to 1 and 5 a lot) and rarely need more than 3 darts to hit a double - what are peoples thoughts on this type of standard?
Steve |
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tripleruss
Posts: 83
Points: 131
Join date: 2011-02-20
Age: 29
Location: newcastle upon tyne
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Sat Apr 16, 2011 6:49 pm | |
| I practice between 1 and 3hrs a nite but sometimes with work
its more like 45 minutes because i find i get a kind of tunnel vision which aint nice
cause all but the board is fuzzy! not nice which i put down to tiredness!! |
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29DARTFINISH
Posts: 114
Points: 130
Join date: 2011-02-01
Age: 30
Location: Kent
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:58 pm | |
| Realistically i practice maybe for 6 hours spread out over a week............... |
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Ackropj
Posts: 18
Points: 19
Join date: 2011-02-15
| | Subject: Re: Practice hours Mon May 16, 2011 3:09 pm | |
| | Geordiesteve wrote: | Hi all, brand spanking new to this forum - have to say really helpful people and advice on here - good work.
I currently use the Uniscore online scorer to practice 'match settings' - wondering what others think of this as a practice method?
Just starting to take darts really seriously over the last couple of months and practicing about 2-3 hours twice on a weekend, and maybe an hour every other night time permitting during the week. Hoping to get confidence and average up to join a team soon.
Out of interest, according the the uniscore my 3 dart average is around 55-58, and generally hit a treble every other 3 darts (stry to 1 and 5 a lot) and rarely need more than 3 darts to hit a double - what are peoples thoughts on this type of standard?
Steve |
My thoughts on that standard are, why are you not playing in the local pub league ?. with that average as long as it is including your doubles is not bad for pub darts at all and will only now get better from actaully playing opponents and then joining the learning curb that is controling your nerves, emotions and arm.
Seriously practise makes perfect is the old cliche but never a true word spoken, the problem with practising on your own is that it is not pushing you enough, You need to get beaten to get better. ( and i dont mean Steve) You need to learn to cope under pressure and thats where the pub darts will get you up a notch, Once your winning regularly ( forget about average, its about hitting them doubles and getting the win ) then you should start looking at superleague and beyond, Get yourself to some opens and knockouts, all great experience and you can meet some great people and make lifetime friends from it.
Good luck with everything. |
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