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The Champions Choice Dartboard by Winmau/Nodor - Brand New Bristle board with smaller doubles and trebles and Mini Bull- Our price is £26.99, P+P £1.00 for mainland UK. (Please see postage section).
Champions Choice Board - "The Practice Board"
The way to win a darts match is to hit the double
before your opponent does! This is of course why it is vital your finishing
skills are at the highest level possible. The "Champions Choice"
dartboard can help you. The board has been made with half size doubles, trebles
and the bull-so it can help with your power scoring too. Here are our thoughts on this piece of kit:
Training Aids
Training aids
are a valuable asset for players and coaches. In football there is the “ mannequin wall” on a trolley so free kicks can be practised without having five or six
team mates standing redundant in the line of fire whilst footballs whistle over
their head or worse! In rugby there is the contraption that allows two men to
replicate the weight of a whole scrum. Darts has the board with half size
doubles and trebles.
How can it Help?
Practice
The
most obvious area is of course as part of your practice regime. The board can
be used to hone your technique and accuracy on the trebles and doubles. We
advise players to totally focus in on the target they are going for whatever
size board they are on. We advise that this should not even be as vague as say just
the 60 bed, but maybe a hole left by a previous dart or perhaps a tiny chalk
mark in the sixty bed.
The
practice board will certainly help in building up the level of focus and
concentration needed providing you take it with you when you go back to a full
size board (more of that later).
Adapt Your Sessions
The Darts Performance Centre truly believes that practice with a partner and with
a competitive edge can be as beneficial as solitary deliberate practice.
But what if you practise against a player or a group of players with varying
degrees of skill? Adapting your sessions is the answer.
During
a session we were involved in we put the two best players on the "practice board" and the rest of the squad on full size boards. This put pressure on the “better
players” because they still wanted the kudos of wining despite the disadvantage
they had .The remaining players also had the real pressure of thinking they
should really win but... It made for a fun and exciting session.This session was very quiet, to me this means focus and concentration and just as importantly players engaging with the practice session.
Pre-Match Build Up
We
have one player who always tries to have a short session on the practice board
before any of his competitive games. He says it gives him the confidence to go
on a full size board and the doubles and trebles seem massive. This was exactly
the reaction we had from the first person to try out the practice board at The
Darts Experiment – Kevin(see the video below) -he should work for the shopping channel!
Confidence
Players
did report feeling more confident after using the practice board, a bit too
confident. In some cases, they scored better on the smaller board! Why? Was it
complacency maybe, having the desired level of focus on the mini board but then
not transferring that intensity to the full size board? However, what if you could
train yourself to replicate that intensity? You would definitely start to play
better darts if you did!
Please see below for our analysis report:
Video 1 - An Introduction to "The Practice Board"
Video 2 - One Player Gives His First Impression Of "The Practice Board"
Video 3 - Team Kasbah Give Their Views Of "The Practice Board"
Darts Product Investigation – Nodor Champions
Choice Board - Darts Performance Centre .com
The Darts Performance Centre investigates the benefits to
a dart player of using a dart board with half size trebles and doubles. Can it
drive you to success or will it drive you mad?
Training
Aids
Analysis: Training
aids are a valuable asset for players and coaches. In football there is the “mannequin
wall” on a trolley so free kicks can be practised without having five or six
team mates standing redundant in the line of fire whilst footballs whistle over
their head or worse! In rugby there is the contraption that allows two men to
replicate the weight of a whole scrum.
The
Product: Champions Choice Practice Board
Analysis:
Adarts training aid, Champions Choice
is a dart board which has half size doubles and trebles. It is made to a high
standard and is robust. If it is used “sparingly” as part of a practice regime
it will assist in developing a variety of fundamental skills needed to win
darts matches.
How
will it help?
Analysis:
It
will help with your aim, accuracy, concentration, confidence, pre-match
preparation and help you beat the best player in your team!
Area
1 - Aim
Analysis:
The board can be used to hone your technique and accuracy on the trebles and
doubles. Our advice to any player when aiming their dart at their target is
that they should not be as vague as simply aiming for the sixty bed for example,
you should aim for a hole left by a previous dart or perhaps a tiny chalk mark
in the sixty bed, Champions Choice WILL help
with your aim and assist in the tiny adjustments needed to get the treble or
double required even via a partly blocked bed.
Area
2
- Concentration
Analysis: The
practice board will help in building the level of focus and concentration that
is needed to consistently hit what you are aiming for. You MUST take the focus you use on the Champions Choice
board it with you when you go back to a full size board. See our video
feedback!
Area
3 – Practice matches
Analysis: Practising with a
partner and practice with a competitive edge can be as beneficial as solitary
deliberate practice. But what if you practise against a player or a group of
players with varying degrees of skill? During a session we were involved in we
put the two best players on the Champions Choice board and the rest of the
squad on full size boards. This put pressure on the “better players” because
they still wanted the kudos of wining despite the disadvantage they had. The
remaining players also had the real pressure of thinking they should really win
but... It made for a FUN and EXCITING session.
Area
4
- Pre-Match Build Up
Analysis: Have a short
session on the practice board before competitive games. When you then go on a
full size board, the doubles and trebles seem MASSIVE.
This was exactly the reaction we had from the first person to try out the
practice board at our Champions Choice experiment.
Area
5 - Confidence
Analysis: Players did report
feeling more confident after using the practice board. However, you must train
yourself to replicate the same intensity you experience from using the
Champions Choice board on a “normal” board; if you achieve that you will definitely
start to PLAY BETTER DARTS!
Report by Paul Gillings MSc
- The Performance Analysis of Sport – The Darts Performance Centre.com
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