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"Official" Throwing Distance?

  • 12-01-2011 09:51AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭


    One of the lads brought a dartboard into work (stricltly for use during lunch-time, of course!) but before even a dart was thrown a row broke out about where the oche should be placed on the floor.
    One school of thought sugests 6' 7" but another theory is that it should be 7' 9"...so who's right? Or are both wrong?

    Thanks in advance to whoever provides the answer...


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Roadend


    7' 9''


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    Just to be pedantic, it's actually 7' 9 1/4" (7 foot 9 and a quarter inches)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Lemegeton


    Roadend wrote: »
    7' 9''

    its actually 7' 9 and a quarter inches. so 237cm to be exact. that is the official distance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    and the bullseye should be at 5' 8".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Roadend


    Lemegeton wrote: »
    its actually 7' 9 and a quarter inches. so 237cm to be exact. that is the official distance.

    Ya but I always sneak my toe over the line ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭CUCINA


    Thanks, all, for the replies...we got the height of the board right anyway.

    Actully looking forward to having a go at this. I used to play many moons ago, had an average of 55, practicing regularly, then when I went on holidays for two weeks one year, came back and couldn't get my rhythm back at all. It was like as if I'd never played before, so my star waned after that, never to return!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Jake The Fat Ma


    If you have it fixed correct. then the distance from the bullseye to the oche should be 115 and a half inches.


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