This is exactly what you can expect about darts training!

You need to put in the hours regularly, practising focused and with intention to see any results over time. It is much better to practise 1 hour per day 5 days per week, than for 5 hours 1 day per week.
If you’re not practising fully focused, it is also so easy to get stuck in the rut of just throwing the darts without 100% meaning, which will lead to bad habits. Instead, we all should work on adding good habits to our daily routines (read article here) and do them with our full intention.

It is probably in the human nature to try to take short-cuts. To be honest, I do it myself regularly…
But when it comes to the things you really care about and want to achieve, there are no magic shortcuts.

Luckily, there are things that makes things easier for darts players nowadays, call it shortcuts if you want.

Most of the games and training concepts on GoDartsPro are fun to play, and inspiring to try to master. We’ve added many gamification features to make you feel “Just one more time and I will do better”.

By making darts training fun to do every day, it is easier to do these important training routines time and time again, and making them your good habits. Make sure to tryout most of the games on GoDartsPro. There are more than 100 games available so not every game will be fun or suitable for your current level.

On the GAME ON page where you’ll find all the games, just click the small square in top right of a game image (see image above) to mark it as a favourite and you will easily find it next time. The small square will change to a red heart showing it is one of your favourites. Then you can easily show all your favourite games by clicking the round heart in the top right of the header of the website. You can also make playlist of your favourite games to play, and maybe different playlists to use different days.

As mentioned before, If you’re open minded to improve in different ways, I recommend you to read the “Slight Edge” book, if not only for your darts training, read it for positive thinking in your life and other reasons. The book explains that consistent daily habits, even if they appear to have minimal impact in the short-term, compound over time and can lead to significant positive outcomes.

Here are a few tools on GoDartsPro you can use on a regular basis to make your darts training more engaging, more focused and more fun:
1) Practise with the Virtual Coach
2) Play a game you haven’t tried yet
3) Use the monthly challenges to try to better your positions in the leaderboard
4) Premium League is a very inspiring and smart way to practise
5) Create your own playlists and create different playlists for different days or types of sessions
6) Try public playlists by other members
7) Use the MasterClass concept and finish game by game
8) Plan your training with the training log
9) Invite friends to GoDartsPro and use your own challenges to inspire you to practise
10) Play the FUN GAMES against your friends and family to enjoy your darts

Another thing I hear many times from the members on GoDartsPro or darts players I meet at tournaments or different events, is that they have a hard time to keep their focus during their training sessions. They say that they start out the training session really focused after a good warm-up, but only after 10 minutes or so, their focus drop and they start to think about other things in life. The school, work, next game, girlfriend/boyfriend, bills etc.

That’s very common and that’s also why many games on GoDartsPro are short but highly effective games. But that’s also something to be aware of when you’re playing longer games, to notice when the focus drops to take a short break for 5 minutes.

Are you usually having a hard time focusing? It is probably because you never trained your brain to focus.
Your daily life is also probably full of distractions. If you’re always distracted and occupied by your phone, social media and playing games, starting to meditate or use visualization for example, will make it easier for you to get into the zone with 100% focus.

Actually, a large study 2005 of 4,715 adults suggests that by spending 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, on brain training activities will improve concentration.

By using brain training games, you can develop a better short-term memory, and problem-solving skills.
You can use games like sudoku or different word puzzles to practise problem-solving and learn how to focus on different tasks. You can also use different darts maths tools to learn the checkouts or practise pure darts maths.

– Jeff Olson