Archive for November, 2010

About how this works

A conversation with a Flight Schooler included this.

When you work with Flight School drills you will by necessity correct any flaws in your stroke simply by having to do that in order to finish the drills. If you are twisting your wrist enough to affect the flight path of the dart you will stop the twisting without paying much attention to the effort. This is how FS drills work. You correct flaws in order to finish the drill and you make the corrections without over analyzing everything. Over time your stroke becomes perfected without paying very much attention to the minutia involved. 

 

I think you may be getting the gist of what I suggest by this time. You have apparently been focusing on all the things which are distractions instead of the goal of your practice which is to finish the drill by sticking the darts in the targets. Just let yourself be yourself. There is no right way; there is no wrong way, only the way you do it. Read the basics part of A02 introduction again.
Same goes for how you grip the dart.  Don’t make the mistake of making this more difficult than it has to be. The best foundation is how you do it without thinking about it. Just “shoot the dart.”

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A major tilt

RNLarry wrote:

George, Thanks sooo much with Flight School! Last night our team won the county champion ship. I give credit to FS , you and hard practice. I won all my matches including the last (deciding game against #1 ranked player) with a 140 check out! And I ened up ranked 3rd in the county btw. FS works if ya work it guys. All the Best, Larry PS I’m 65 years old and my first year playing steel
GeorgeSilberzah wrote:
What a nice thing to start my day – week – rest of my life with.
jakesy wrote:
Sounds like a tilt is in order my friend
Good job Larry. I remember it was not too long ago we you asked for advice and FS was recommended. Things like these are not only a feather in George’s cap but in all of ours that believe in the system and promote the system. George created a wonderful Epiphany and it has since grown legs and keeps walking on it’s own merits effecting more and more darters every day. George, your legacy is assured. Thank you.
GeorgeSilberzah wrote:
Yes, Yes – a tilt for Larry, from all nearly 600 of we Flight Schoolers, and, if he’s allowed to participate at his advanced age, Larry too. And then one more tilt for Flight School itself which, as Jakesy observes, appears to be helping raise the level of darts players we may not even know of. I was checking the clock but decided it’s too impressive an occasion to wait until official cocktail hour so had a salutary tilt of Graham’s 20 port with lunch. Every one hear the resounding ‘clink?’

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A list with no order

>People with opposite dominate eye, if not told about it, just go about playing the game and don’t even know it.

 

>Competition ‘good’ is limited without practice ‘good.’

 

>The first two steps to becoming as good as can be are to perfect your stroke and know into which hole you want the dart to stick.

 

>Your body takes time to make changes and that goes for dart training also.

 

>Physical practice is where you perfect your ability to ‘put this dart – in that hole’ and competition is where you learn that you can do it against people: gain confidence. 

 

>Practicing with team mates is not something which improves your ability to put the dart in the hole but does improve your ability to do it against people after you’ve learned to do it in the first place.

 

>A belief of Flight School: Everything good comes from the forward stroke, everything prior to that has very little to do with accuracy.

 

>How your arm, hand and wrist go about getting the dart into the hole is none of your business.

 

>Just let yourself be yourself. There is no right way; there is no wrong way, only the way you do it.

 

>Don’t make the mistake of making this more difficult than it has to be.

 

>The best foundation is how you do it without thinking about it.

 

>Just “shoot the dart.”

 

>When your focus is on the hole it should be easier to be your self.

 

>Getting tangled up in mind games over minutia which really does nothing to help improve your game is one of the slipperiest slopes in darts and starting down this slope of distraction kind of sneaks up on you.

 

>The job of ironing out the infinite dance of coordinating muscles is assigned to your subconscious.

 

You can never really know how well the next dart will be shot.

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