Any footage with the dear, late Crafty Cockney in it is to be cherished. Here, he proves that form may be temporary, but class is permanent. Eric Bristow made darts what it is today, and it was a terrible shame that dartitis robbed him of the opportunity to shine in the PDC. What a great human being he was.
John Lowe gave me my first set of darts when I was 4 years old. I still play every day thanks to this man. Eric was a legend in his own right but John Lowe is my hero in darts and always will be.
John Lowe is last man standing, RIP to Bruce Spendley, Dave Lanning, Eric Bristow and Sid Waddell, and John can still do the business - a real living legend
@@kingjewles6481 There is, but in this video Sid and Dave are commentating, Bruce is the scorer and Eric is playing, only one left now is John Lowe. Hopefully JL and the other old school players you mention are around for a good while yet….
John was playing way faster than usual and it affected him, never seen him so erratic. As for Brissy he played well (for his standard then, as this was actully 18 years since dartitis kicked in). You can see here he had the onset of that weird flick. He always closed his hand before release, however his drawback from about here (04) onwards got shorter and shorter till the flick was immediate. Cost him 95% of his accuracy
I don't know anything about darts but I picked up on that. Seemed rushed and tense compared to Eric. Don't know how often he plays, maybe its age or just something in his life stressing him out at the time. Who knows. Absolute beast for his age here though. Eagle eyes and surgeon steady hands.
Basically, Lowe had lost that slight pause he used to have when sighting the target after bringing the dart back to his chin. He was bringing his arm back and letting it go straight away, that's why he lost his accuracy.
Interesting to see this. At that time, Eric appears to have been in control of his dartitis and was throwing quite well whereas John has lost that slight pause he had after bringing the dart back to his chin, and that ruined his accuracy. Later on, Eric's dartitis would return so badly that he completely changed the way he threw his darts - he was awful after that. He got so bad that Lowe mostly beat him in veteran's tournaments and exhibitions thereafter.
He did when it was working. Here it's pretty much okay but when he had dartitis, the famous pause he took before releasing the dart became a huge issue.
That's a silly statement. Bristow was no angel on the stage in his heyday. He was horrible to play against. That's no way a criticism of Sir Eric but your comment is pure and utter tosh.
John was always my favourite but Eric was the pantomime villain you still liked as helped make the game what it is today. Doesn’t seem to be the same characters they had in the 80’s that made you want to watch darts
In their primes they would definitely be competitive with the best PDC has to offer. Bristow averaged regularly over 90 points per round in the 80's with boards that had thick round wires (thus smaller trebles/doubles) and caused lots of bounce outs. Bristow even had a 103 avg. against Jocky Wilson in the 1983 WDF World Cup final. And John Lowe was playing high quality darts well into the 2000's. Almost managed to beat Phil Taylor in the 2002 World Matchplay semifinals by losing only 17-15.
hessunator people forget that modern boards have roughly 14% larger scoring area than the boards back in the 80’s. A 90 average on those boards would be much higher on today’s boards.
Your not wrong Rick & I was thinking same thing recently. I came up with this though darts were more exciting back then, player could go up score a 120, next throw 57 it was all nail bite stuff. A 180 brought the house down and a high check out was amazing. Players now methodical and its not same, though admire there skill but from a viewer stand point you wont get that excitement back.
Don't talk out of your backside!! They weren't playing on boards with cheese wire back then, the doubles and trebles were smaller, the thicker wire gave more bounce outs. So shut up.
