Darts is Awesome

Yes I know the title is somewhat disquieting, shocking even, it wasn't deliberate, its just an honest opinion and of course I shall explain why.

Sport can be exciting at times, exhilarating even, but this is often not the norm, often it is tedious, boring and a grind. Of course a perfectly formed athlete can be marvelled for their own sake, the honed body of a physical specimen, a freak of genetics put through a lifetime of training. Darts is a little different.

There is still likely to be a lifetime of training, countless hours of steely eyed concentration, a piston armed technique honed through focussed repetition and the traversal of countless miles of beer soaked carpet. In a way it sounds like a lifetime down the pub and although for some it certainly is, a select chosen few ascend from the inebriated drudgery and find themselves considered exciting and exhilarating and likely to attract the adored rapt attention of millions of envious eyes.

I am one of those envious eyes, or two to be precise. Both have been keenly fixed for hours on a cork target trying to perfect the easy tungsten flinging that I regularly see so perfectly demonstrated on TV.

So why is darts awesome? it's the maths, its the hypnotic thud thud thud that mesmerically draws you in, its the drunk hysterical crowd, and above all its the drama, the gut wrenching, the butt clenching, the relentless unremitting drama!