~ free until 1st November
A darts practice plan you write yourself
Every structured plan you can buy has the same problem. It was written for a player who is not you. It does not know which double you dread, what your average actually is this month, or that your scoring is fine and your finishing is quietly costing you four legs a week.
Build Your Own Practice Plan fixes that by handing you the frame and leaving the content blank. You get the same four week structure, the same benchmark test and the same logging and review pages used in Break Forty, with the session tables empty. You profile your game, score it against a repeatable benchmark, and then write the sessions that your two biggest weaknesses actually call for.
It is built to be printed, kept by the board and written on by hand, and it is designed to be reprinted every four weeks, so one purchase gives you a training system rather than a single block.
What is inside
Twenty two A4 pages, print ready:
My Details and Setup. Your darts, weight, stems, flights, board, oche, lighting and where you are today, all recorded before you start, so in four weeks you know exactly what changed.
The Benchmark Assessment. 117 darts, around 30 minutes, testing singles, power scoring, doubles and leaving a finish. Two scorecards, one for before week one and one for the end of week four, under identical conditions.
Your Player Profile. A blank profiling wheel where you score eight qualities out of ten as you are now and as you want to be, and let the gaps choose the training.
My Game, Stats and Goals. Baseline numbers, three focus areas and one measurable goal, written before you throw a dart.
A drill library. Fifteen drills with codes and targets calibrated for a player averaging 30 to 40, plus blank tables for the drills you or your coach already use.
Plan Your Four Weeks. Five decisions that turn your profile and your benchmark into an actual block, with three tests for any drill you write in.
Four blank week pages and four review pages. Session, focus, what you do, time and what to log, all empty, with a coach's note and the research behind it printed on every week.
Outcomes and Reflections, and Next Steps. The retest, what moved, what did not, and how to build block two.
Who it is for
Any player with a board at home, around four spare hours a week, and enough honesty to write a number down even when it is not the number they wanted. It works whatever your average, because you set the targets, although the drill targets printed in the library are calibrated for a player averaging 30 to 40.
It is particularly useful if you have already worked through a written plan and want to aim the next four weeks at your own game, or if you have had a coaching session and want somewhere proper to put what came out of it.
Who it is not for
If you want to be told exactly what to throw on each of sixteen sessions, buy Break Forty instead. This one assumes you are willing to spend twenty minutes with a pen before you start.
Test, target, train, retest
The reason a blank plan works is that the measurement around it does not move. You take the same benchmark under the same conditions before week one and at the end of week four, so whatever you chose to put in the middle, the comparison at the end is honest. Repeat that across a year and the small gains compound into a level of improvement that is very hard to reach by throwing without a plan.
The player profile page
The page most players find the most uncomfortable and the most useful. Performance profiling was built for Olympic boxers, and it does something simple: you list the qualities that make a good player, rate yourself on each, mark where you want to be, and work on the two biggest gaps rather than the two lowest scores. A six that needs to be a nine matters more than a four you can live with.
It is one of the frameworks from Little Mental Frameworks for Better Darts, and it is in here because the benchmark tells you what your arm did while the profile tells you what you believe. Where the two agree, you have found what the next four weeks are for.
What you need
A board at regulation height and a marked oche, a scoring app, a bot or an online platform for the competing sessions, a printer, and a pen that works.
