Feelslikefar
Senior Member
- Location
- Nashville, TN
Back in the late 70's, I got the Dart bug, joining a rookie team on a Dart leaque.
Pacticed hours and hours, learning my 'outs' (how to finish).
Along with the Dart skills needed to hit where you aim, you MUST KNOW how to do the 'math'
on the Fly. ( no machines doing the math for you, just a chalk board and your math skill )
Of course, I followed the great dart players in England and heard that my favorite player
had just thrown the perfect game ( 9-Darts ) live on TV for the first time.
Lucky enough to finally get stationed on a small RAF base in East Anglia, UK.
Televised Darts was a mainstay in our house and I got to see the greats play each other live.
Along with John Lowe, some of the best at that time were Jocky Wilson and 'The Crafty Cockney'
Eric Bristow.
I enjoyed playing in leaques and tournaments till around 2004, when my nerve entrapment stopped
me.
Here's a video of the first perfect '9-dart' game ever on live TV, John Lowe, 1984.
( he pocketed 102,000 pounds for this feat )
Pacticed hours and hours, learning my 'outs' (how to finish).
Along with the Dart skills needed to hit where you aim, you MUST KNOW how to do the 'math'
on the Fly. ( no machines doing the math for you, just a chalk board and your math skill )
Of course, I followed the great dart players in England and heard that my favorite player
had just thrown the perfect game ( 9-Darts ) live on TV for the first time.
Lucky enough to finally get stationed on a small RAF base in East Anglia, UK.
Televised Darts was a mainstay in our house and I got to see the greats play each other live.
Along with John Lowe, some of the best at that time were Jocky Wilson and 'The Crafty Cockney'
Eric Bristow.
I enjoyed playing in leaques and tournaments till around 2004, when my nerve entrapment stopped
me.
Here's a video of the first perfect '9-dart' game ever on live TV, John Lowe, 1984.
( he pocketed 102,000 pounds for this feat )