Player interview - 侯可旋 Hou Ke Shiuan
◆Basic Information◆
1.Name
HOU KE SHIUAN 侯可旋
2.Country
Taiwan
3.Card Rating
16.55(DARTSLIVE2)
4.The highest rating ever
16.78(2015-9) (DARTSLIVE2)
5.Sponsor
L-style 花鳥風月
6.Settings of darts that you are currently using
Barrel： GREEN ROOM GALAXY3 2BA
Shaft： L-Shaft Lock Straight 260
Flight： Champagne Flight x Team BULL
Tip： Lippoint 2BA white
Other： Doron recovery arm UNISEX M
※Why do you use darts with these settings?
Barrel: I like short barrel. The size is also nice and the grip is also a strong point. The feeling of it flying even though I throw it lightly is nice.
Shaft: After a lot of testing, the most appropriate length of the shaft that fit my throwing style is 260 or 300. 260 fits more so I am using 260.
Flight: In order to maintain the balance I am using flight with wide surface area.
7.Darts experience
3 years
[His rating history]
1 month… Rating 9
2 months…Rating 11
3 months…Rating 12
6 months…Rating 13 (Stopped)
1 year 10 months…Rating 16
8.Amount of training
When I just started in darts, I train about 7-8 hours per days which improved my darts skill in a short period. Recently, it depends on whether there’s time or not. If I have time I will be doing self-training for about 2 hours. The others time I spent it playing with other players.
9. Favorite game for you
Cricket
10.Favorite number for you
Bull
◆Throwing movie vol.1◆
◆About his darts career◆
1.Why you started to play darts?
One day I was invited by friend to have some drinks in a bar. There are some darts machine in the bar so all of us started to play it with drinks as the gamble chips. That’s the first time I come in contact with darts. Since then, whenever I have time I will go to bar to play darts. After I played it for some times, I was being asked to join into darts team. Hence, the me now.
2.What is the best part of playing darts
The best part of playing darts for me will be the chances that let me to get to know a lot of friend. Be it from my own country or foreign country. Through darts, I get to know a lot of new friends and moreover the relation between myself and friends that I have known through it is getting better and better. Just like that of getting to know everyone is what make playing darts fun.
3.The most impressive thing in your darts career
In a big competition, there is a partner who I always practiced with that get into the best 8 catego-ry with me. That time, I was feeling sad since it was not possible for both of us to go into best 4 category together. It was a tough match that both of us cannot give way to each other. In the end it was my loss but it was such an exciting match that I still can’t forget it even till now. It was also the first time I lost in a match but still feeling happy.
4. What is the biggest difficulty you faced ever and how you overcame that difficulty?
The biggest hurdle will be mentality. Actually, there are times that I feel down or have a short pe-riod of slump. It makes me loss self-confidence and can’t pull out my true strength in training or matches. The best way to cope with this will be trying to be as usual as possible and adjust my own mentality slowly. If you worry too much, you will only feel more and more frustrated in the end. You won’t be able to adjust your mentality if you are not calm. It will also affect your self-confidence and performance.
5.Your future goal of darts
Get great achievement or results in the darts world to show my value. So that I can get the recog-nition of sponsors and be able to sign contract with them. It won’t be easy but I will keep it up!
