Session : Elbow + Wrist

Backward movement in the elbow and wrist is important. I aids in gaining much 

needed power to get the dart to the board. This backward movement is the 

focus of the session today and having a clean arm release and getting the elbow

and wrist levers in the correct order.

Rayment (2013) mentions in his web blog, 'Some beginners do not pull back the dart 

when throwing. This is a mistake as it makes it difficult to get enough acceleration

 from the dart to reach the board with accuracy. Also it is important to follow through. 

One way to do this is end the throw by leaving the throwing arm extended with 

the hand pointing at the target. Try to avoid the dart wobbling in flight.'

'A typical error here is not to pull back enough because control of this is 

difficult, but you will thus sacrifice a lot of acceleration space and accuracy.'

(Zochling, 2000)

As you can see it is important that there is backward movement so that the dart

can gain velocity prior to the release. If there is no movement then you lack power

and when the body tries to create power it then loses accuracy.

During the session I just worked on the pull back and release without the dart for 

the first 10 minutes and then took a dart and began working on the pull 

back and release and looking down the arm and through the hand when releasing.

References:

Karlheinz Zochling, 2000

www.dartbase.com

W. J. Rayment, 2013

www.indepthinfo.com