After a few months off my writing duties, during which I have relocated and settled into a new area of the country, and recalibrated life in general, it’s nice to be back sharing some darts thoughts from the tungsten coalface.
Some lessons are easier noticed than learned and that can be the case regardless of how long you have been on this earth!
Despite years of rebuilding a brand new throwing actions and adding new equipment and set ups over time it’s still incredibly tempting to fiddle and look for the easy solution.
Needless to say that my return to a previously preferred flight style went exactly as they are named – pear shaped!
Like anything else an increased focus and a determination to succeed means that initially it seems to be a winning combination until they were more severely tested and simply exaggerated a couple of existing frailties. Typically this was shown up when I had a couple of opportunities to play the Pro Tour again during the recent German weekends.
The other lesson to re learn over again is not to try too hard when an opportunity crops up. Except that you have earned it through dedication and effort and by doing what you are doing. Trying to do more will not suddenly change anything.
Having once again learned these painful lessons, I re affixed my Wizard 2.0 set up and set off for a couple of these ADC Vault events, they were very local to me and proved enjoyable. A couple of decent performances and an event win tend to help!
The reset at least partially worked for the next Challenge Tour weekend as well. Back to playing some decent stuff overall although still being caught out with the odd stinker. Two last 16 runs were not a terrible end to the tour season. Plenty to play for.
This year sees the return of a World Championship qualifier for me and I shall also be returning to Killarney for the classic. I loved playing the events there years ago and Ireland has always been good to me. Different code but same atmosphere I am sure!
Then we shall escape for some Winter sun on The ‘Reef’ before the whole thing begins again with Q School!
Catch The Wizard at The MODUS Super Series
Colin Osbourn is a multiple PDC title winner including at the Premier Event level with The Championship League of darts in 2010. He is also a longstanding DartsWorld Ambassador.
He is regularly to be seen competing at the MODUS Super Series play is streamed on Pluto TV with highlights and other coverage on the MODUS Super Series YouTube channel, or via various bookmaker’ websites worldwide.
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Image: PDC Lawrence Lustig
Graphic: Colin Osborne
