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This term or phrase or whatever it may actually be is to express a type of focus, i.e., a centering, the heart of, the focus of, an emphasis and balance on being centered. Being centered is another way of saying you have balance in life but herein I mean to say that one must achieve a complete and total “focus” on darts.
Datsu-chushin is about darts focus. It is about applying a type of immovable mind where distractions are not possible or at least pushed out of the conscious mind while performing datsu-no-kata in a game of darts.
To center oneself not just in the tanden, the belly or center of our bodies, but to center one’s mind on one distinct thought, visualization and act. The act of throwing the perfect dart that hits the target consistently and achieve the darters goals, to throw a perfect dart game.
I am talking about such a focus that you are actually putting on blinders, symbolically, on your eyes and ears so that you cannot be disturbed while throwing/tossing darts at the dart board. This is another reason why I suggested a refocus, a paradigm shift, away from the classic goals and mind-set of winning and winning money. That is, as stated in another article, merely a benefit of having a perfect game plan and implementing it with a focus not on the adversary or his throws or his scores or his lead in the game but on you, yourself, your darts, your kata throws, etc., and your dart board while everyone and all else falls out of focus and becomes just a dim disturbance of your environment, a non-distraction environmental condition you play around.
Bibliography:
Chaplin, Patrick, PhD. “The Official Bar Guide to Darts.” Sterling Publishing. New York. 2010.
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