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[Other Sport] Eric Bristow RIP
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Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Time to let go..........of the dart. Oops!
Dartitis destroyed his career. I never understood it. I mean snooker players used to let go of their cue. A shot was more vital than a single dart but nobody's ever had that problem in snooker.
It exists in snooker too. I've heard it referred to as cue-itis, or rest-itis when specific to using a rest. Hendry has had it. This article refers to it borrowing the golfing term 'The Yips': http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/9267691.stm
My old man suffered from dartitis after half a century of playing the game with no problem. He never really got over it properly and eventually just stopped playing. It is really frustrating to even watch someone suffering with it, because it's just so hard to compute what is going on. I know that Bristow tried everything, even playing with just the light from a single candle for some reason. It's a shame he has joined Syd in going too early. In the heyday of the BDO he was the box office draw. Early eighties TV sport: You just had to support Ovett over Coe, Higgins over Davis, and Bristow over everyone.
Eric Potts
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He checked out on Treble 20 . It's what he would have wanted.
Surely twenty, double top.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Double 5, bull. Has to be.
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Really tried not to laugh at that...but couldn't quite manage it.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
RIP Eric.Remember him and Bobby George in the pub at Camber betting £50 a point on 501.Pint in one hand,darts in the other,lit fag behind his ear,larger than life.
Knightsworld
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Other than footballers, he was my sporting hero when I was growing up. He was the reason I took up darts.
Met him a few years ago at Rileys on London Road, he was playing in a tournament including Keith Deller. I popped outside for a smoke and he was out there having one himself, he was more than happy to talk about the good old days etc.
R I P fella.
Met him a few years ago at Rileys on London Road, he was playing in a tournament including Keith Deller. I popped outside for a smoke and he was out there having one himself, he was more than happy to talk about the good old days etc.
R I P fella.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Wouldn't he have bust and thus his score re-set to 60?
maffew
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Time to let go..........of the dart. Oops!
Dartitis destroyed his career. I never understood it. I mean snooker players used to let go of their cue. A shot was more vital than a single dart but nobody's ever had that problem in snooker.
I dont think dartitis just affects a single dart, it affects their whole game then the anxiety of expecting it for the next game, irrational fear of the fear. It affects snooker players too, remember a local guy who used to play at the same club as me, I think he made the top 32 for a while but didnt come back out once on telly whilst playing against the rocket. Described it as something similar, and no amount of therapies seems to fix them, they give up their careers
maffew
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Eric thing on ITV4 right now, quite good
OzMike
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Stage fright maybe, I know a few very good Musos who get it and they never get heard, bloody shame.
Stumpy Tim
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"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … Bristow's only 27." Sid Waddell.
alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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pure brilliance