With the quarter-finals at the Darts World Championship and the quarter-finals at the World Masters, Nathan Aspinall already had two good results this year. The Englishman has to struggle with his dartitis again and again. In a podcast, “The Asp” now spoke in detail about his problems.
“I collapsed completely, I just couldn’t throw my darts anymore,” Nathan Aspinall recalls a Premier League game against Peter Wright. Aspinall had already led 4-0 against “Snakebite”, but lost the game 4: 6 and had to admit that he suffers from dartitis.
The 33-year-old describes the disease in the “Tops & Tales” podcast as an “extreme form of fear when throwing”: “At the moment when I have to throw, I get a panic attack. You are afraid to miss something Heart knocks like crazy and suddenly you think: ‘I can’t throw’ ‘.
Aspinall got professional help
“Imagine you suffer 20 times during a game. That means you had 20 panic attacks in 20 minutes. It is terrible. Once it started, it doesn’t stop,” the Englishman continues, ” who has been dealing openly with his problems for a long time.
In order to get the illness that a dart player can get under control in the worst case, Aspinall got professional help: “I can now deal with it much better. I work with a hypnotherapist, Chris O’Connor, and that has made an incredible difference in three months. “
Above all, recurring patterns help the two-time major winner to stay calm: “That’s why I put my foot on the edge of the oche before I bow and step forward. That gives me an additional second to calm down. I often stand Also in the back to take a few seconds to me.
Aspinall is also confident when he looks into the future: “I work very hard and I think I have almost reached this process at the end.”