Technique??

Is there a technique?  well there certailly are things you can do to improve your accuracey, but even the best have really differnt styles.

Darts from the heartSaturday January 14, 2006The GuardianBreathless, slightly sweaty and with a suggestion of dry roasted peanuts in its beard, the darts season reaches its climax this weekend. And what a feast we've had. Two world championships in a month! Get in there my son! Take that, snooker! Against all expectations, in the last week darts has turned out to be one of those activities - like drinking lager or smoking fags - that improve the more deeply engrossed in them you get.Article continuesThis might come as a surprise. If darts has a problem it's likely to be something to do with the unremitting monotony of it all. Thunk. Treble 20. Thunk. Tops. The basic ingredients are laughably simple. Hence the disproportionate focus on the darts player's image - the jewellery, the nicknames, the rippling acres of polyester. Throwing style is irrelevant. Technique? There isn't any. To the outsider at the BDO Championship the seed and the qualifier are pretty much identical. Ted "The Count" Hankey, a former champion who actually looks more like a furtive under-footman, throws a dart like a man tossing a chocolate wrapper out of his car window. Tony West looks like he's hurling a grenade. Alberto Essers, a surprise early success, has a lunatic twitch, like a man jiggling his key in a sticky lock.

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