HowlingMonkey  Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:20 pm  I just wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU George!

 

I received the first set of practice routines Sunday Morning. I have basically started at ground zero as my form had taken on a wrong turn somewhere . I was not using my fingers/wrist to power the dart anymore, relying on using the draw back of the forearm to power the dart. I will not go into where/when I received that advise but suffice to say it had detrimental effects on my game.

 

So on to the progress….

 

I had the concept of the finger/wrist curl down fairly quickly, within 15 minutes it was like revisting an old friend I had not seen in a number of years. This was something I did initially the first couple of years when I started playing. All of sudden my darts had a WONDERFUL zip in them again. Alebit there was not much accuracy to speak of, I am happy to take any victory even the small ones we sometimes take for granted.

 

So I began working the grouping exercise, where ever the first dart landed I attempted to place the second and third dart as close to it as possible. My small victory in this exercise; I had to retrieve 22 flights from the floor to replace on one of the shafts, once I even had to retrieve two flights from the floor. Like I said I am happy to take small victories.

 

To Be Continued……

 

This is my first post of many to come.

Greg

 

Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:41 am    Post subject: Flight School Inspiration

Hi All

I wanted to take a few minutes to PRAISE Flight School and George. This program is a wonderful thing that George has given us and I am very thankful for his time and advise.

 

Now on to the reason for this post.

DISCLAIMER: This post is intended to hopefully inspire others to work with the program and is in no way intended as a “bragging” session. Well maybe just a little but not much .

 

Some background:

I shot league and tournaments for about 3 years in 1997-1999 then suddenly took a 7 year hiatus from the sport, yes I do consider it to be a sport.

When I began to shoot again in April of this year, my darts were “all over” the board. For instance, I would be shooting at the T20 and consistently hitting the 9 and 13, this was occurring for every number I was shooting at missing by 2 and 3 wedges. My form was absolute crap. No power, no zip, and quite obviously no accuracy.

 

I found Flight School about 3 or 4 months ago and promptly signed up and began following George’s drills and advise. When I started the accuracy drill the first night I choose 5 numbers, thought how hard could it be to hit 25 triples in an hour. Well an hour and forty-five minutes later I found out how hard it could be to hit 25 triples in an hour . However despite all the frustration I have continued to dedicate 2 hours per night to the Flight School drills.

 

The Present:

For the past week I have moved to 14 numbers in an average of one hour and 5 minutes for the accuracy drill. I am currently leading our league in MVP points, fourth in winning percentage, and ranked an “A” player, I started the current season ranked as “C” player btw.

 

One thing I did notice during the accuracy drill, I was clock watching and began to compete against the clock, this caused the frustration to begin to creep back into my practice routine. So now I remove my watch, cover all the clocks and turn the music off. I started to really get absorbed in the drill, no distractions and began to “listen” to my stroke, this was huge. I check the time before I start the accuracy drill and even look at it again until the drill is complete. This has made practice a lot more fun and interesting because it is always a pleasant surprise to see that you made or were very close to the allotted time.

 

Enough about that, lets all tilt one for George.

Wow that was longer than I intended.

Thanks

Greg

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