Darts Measurements

If you practice regularly on a board which is too high or low, or the throwing line (known as the oche) is too near or to far, it will be self-defeating. The purpose of practising is to increase your accuracy and consistency. If you are practising on a board not set up properly, when you do come to play a match in a club you will be hitting to high or low in the 20 segment. You will become frustrated and all your hard work will have gone to waste. You have got to make sure your board is set up correctly.

The dartboard must be hung with the centre of the bullseye 1.73m (5ft 8in) above a point on the floor that MUST be level with the area on which the you stand while playing. In other words the floor needs to be level.

When marking out your throwing line, you MUST take your measurement from the face of the dartboard and not the wall or cabinet behind it. The face of the board should be 2.37m (7ft 9.25in), thats seven feet nine and a quarter inches from the back of the oche (throwing line). The oche itself should be 2ft (610mm) wide and ideally 1.5in 38mm high if using a raised oche. All darts tournaments adopt a raised oche as this makes throwing illegally from a nearer point impossible and will ensure you will always throw from the same distance. You are not restricted to always throwing directly behind the oche. There may be times when you need to stand wide because your view of a double or treble bed may be blocked. At these times you should always be careful to not throw from to near, try to imagine a line running parallel with the end of the oche and stay behind it.

You are now all set to play some darts. Enjoy!

Chris Waddington is the publisher of the Dart Masters Coaching Course Ebook. This course is not just about how to play darts, it contains serious methods of learning designed to improve your game beyond your optimum level in around six weeks. For more details on the course and the opportunity to receive free snippets from the course visit playgreatdarts.co.uk

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