Winmau Blade III Dart Board
Established for over 55 years, Winmau (pronounced 'Win More') is the world's leading manufacturer of quality bristle dartboards, darts and dart accessories. Winmau features at the biggest tournaments such as the Winmau World Masters and Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships as televised in the UK and Holland.
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Blade 3 is the Professional level Dart Board from Winmau. The créme-de-la-créme of dart boards used in the big tournaments by the top professional players.
- Long Life as standard - Built from millions of East African super dense sisal fibres to withstand very heavy play
- Dynamic Blade Wiring System - Designed to move and not trap any of the sisal fibre in the doubles and trebles for greatly increased playability
- Entirely angled wiring with no overlaps - unsurpassed technology for minimising dart bounce-outs.
- Craft Assurance - From the moment you take the Blade III out of the box, you can tell it is a quality product made with care and precision
- Unique - Each Blade III has a tracking code on the back, so you know that your Blade III is manufactured to the highest possible standard by our skilled technicians
- Pro tested and tested again - Your Blade III dartboard underwent extensive testing from Winmau's 11 times World Champion players. The unique Blade III formula is the most technologically advanced dartboard in the world
- Endorsed - Exclusively endorsed by the British Darts Organisation. The Blade III is the most televised dartboard in the World.
Additional features with this board:
- A white-coated, anti-glare number ring
- A free game of darts booklet
- A free checkout table giving you the easiest way to break down your score in the last 180
- Enhanced dartboard graphics
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History of Darts
There seems to have been a weapon called a dart in existence for many hundreds of years as various mostly obscure literary references to the term affirm. However, the existence of a dart is not the same as the existence of the Game of Darts. The first clear references to any game like darts first appear as a nineteenth century parlour game. The first such game was called Puff and Dart which used a blowpipe to fire a dart at the target. It is said that in 1844, during a game of Puff and Dart at a London pub, a player made the unfortunate mistake of sucking rather than blowing. The dart disappeared into his digestive system whereupon the poor chap died a few days later. The other game was Dart and Target which is similar but without the blow-pipe i.e. the darts are thrown. Best guess for date of appearance of this is late 1870s.
Early forms of Darts started to grown in popularity in the 19th Century but it didn't become a serious pub game until the 20th century when it was still known as Dart and Target according to 'Lawful Games on Licensed Premises', 1904. Dart and Target was played on a board of numbered coloured circles, on which doubles and trebles did not feature, the highest score being the bullseye and lowest at the edge. Brewers started to organise leagues from around 1925. . Like other games, Darts suffered from laws prohibiting it in places such as Liverpool and Glasgow.
Although the standard or trebles or "London" board pictured is the primary darts board in use today, many different designs have existed over the years and non-London variants are still around. Still known to be used are the Yorkshire board, the Lancashire or Manchester board, the Staffordshire Board and East End Darts is also still popular being played on a boards with segments scoring multiples of five. The London board's segmented numbering scheme is inherited from the old Yorkshire, Burton, Irish and Lincoln boards which have a similar arrangement. The only picture that exists of any dartboard prior to 1920 is a picture of the weird-looking Grimsby board from around 1890.
Today, Darts is played by 6 million people regularly and features on Satellite TV. Visit The Online Guide to Traditional Games to find out more about the history of Darts, .