I've seen elsewhere that people have suggested that the boards used for PL have larger trebles and doubles than the boards released for the general public. I for one have always thought this to be a bunch of bs..... BUT last night I said to myself more then once.. "man, that treble segment looks huge!!!" The 1st time I said it was when Gary Anderson filled up the 60 bit on a trip to the oche. I'll find a video of said visit in a bit, but I swear it looked bigger than normal. Might of been the camera angle, etc... not sure.
We've all heard the debate about PDC boards vs BDO boards. "Toy" boards, etc...

Personally, I would LOVE to see someone (Getagrip) do a review of segment size between the 2 boards with a nice set of calipers.


What do YOU guys think?????

interesting, look forward to the video to check it out

LOL that is so funny you say that, because I said the same thing to my Dad, must be just the cameras though surely?

LOL I already did one on the Eclipse HD, and the segments on the HD were a touch smaller I think.

I think with the strong lighting and the camera close ups there may be some distortion when watching on TV, I could be wrong though???

USMC80 wrote:

interesting, look forward to the video to check it out

Doing a quick edit now over on jtv. Have the link up in a bit.

Here's a quick little vid. Granted, I doubt the human eye can detect a mm worth of difference but they do seem a bit big. The darts that RvB and Ando are using are in the 23-24 gram range yet take up VERY little room in the treble.

http://www.justin.tv/tungstentv/b/365318915

Hasn't Taylor signed and handed the board out after winning it on a couple of occasions. I wouldn't of thought that they would be too keen to let them be handed out if it was basically a rigged set up

They do look bigger, don't they? If they were like that on my board, I'd still miss though

I changed the title and added an "S" to the end of theory. Figured I'd add this while i'm at it.

Does Sky sports know something we don't??? This is a link to their odds on betting page. Have a look and tell me if we are in for a surprise..

https://www.skybet.com/darts/pdc-world-championships/event/14749267

You mean Waites and Kist?

They look right to me I think it is because they are so well lit it becomes deceptive to the eye.

i think this is a test for the hd as the board to me in that clip seems to have no veins.

TrollTheLocalPatriot wrote:

You mean Waites and Kist?

And Bunting. Maybe Sky knows something we don't?

it's just the odds the books are offering . they always chuck stuff like this in . waites just won the bdo punters will see the odds and fancy a punt on him . and the bookies will probably keep their money as he isn't playing in the pdc and probably wont be.

everything looks bigger on TV maybe thats why it looks bigger..

JD, I watched a video on FB you postedon the dartsnutz page:

https://www.facebook.com/dart.snutz.9?ref=ts&fref=ts

The segments look big here too. Hmmm, maybe that's why you hit so many big scores.

Nucky wrote:

JD, I watched a video on FB you postedon the dartsnutz page:

https://www.facebook.com/dart.snutz.9?ref=ts&fref=ts

The segments look big here too. Hmmm, maybe that's why you hit so many big scores.

Yes. That's a special board I bought from Winmau. Segments are 12mm wide instead of the regulation 10mm.

Shhhh.

its JD's cheat board, it is the opposite of a trainer board, instead of the segments been half size they are double size of a normal board/

Got to get me one of those too!

here you go grip !
http://www.vegadarts.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=72_73&products_id=1222

just need a winmau sticker and yer go to go lol

haha thats cool, might start hitting 180's again with that