Player interview - Alan Chau
◆Basic Information◆
1.Name
Alan Chau
2.Country
Singapore
3.Card Rating
16 (DARTSLIVE)
4.The highest rating ever
17 (DARTSLIVE)
5.Sponsor
TIGA, L-Style
6.Settings of darts that you are currently using
Barrel： TIGA Fusion custom
Shaft： L-SHaft carbon Lock Straight 190
Flight： L-Style Flight-L Champagne Flight Kite
Tip： Lippoint
※Why do you use darts with these settings?
I customize this setting because with this set up, the darts will fly faster and I prefer a fast landing.
7.Darts experience
8years
8.Amount of training
I seldom do training nowadays due to work commitments. I will just go to darts bar and practice and play with friends 2-3 times per week.
9. Favorite game for you
Count up. This game is a good practice for improvement.
10.Favorite number for you
Double 16
◆Throwing movie vol.1◆
◆About his darts career◆
1.Why you started to play darts?
Before I started playing darts, I was playing pool in a pub and that pub happens to put in 1 dartboard. That’s when I started touching darts. Initially I was just playing for fun with my friends. However from then onwards, I never look back.
2.What is the best part of playing darts
Friends. Making new friends and catching up with old friends (Local & overseas) during tournaments.
3.The most impressive thing in your darts career
To be able to represent my country (Singapore) in IDF. We managed to secure 1st runners up in the event.
4. What is the biggest difficulty you faced ever and how you overcame that difficulty?
The biggest difficulty is I faced is injury. Prolonged period of playing darts had caused pain in my elbow and knee. The pain had affected my throwing. I am currently on medication and trying to rest my elbow and knee as much as possible thus I have I cut down the amount of time I am playing.
5.Your future goal of darts
To be able to train up more good darters in Singapore and ultimately to see the standard of darts in Singapore improves.
