Description of Shaft & Flight of Dart

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Rich Buccola here in Astoria Queens at the world's famous Doyle's Corner and, on behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to show you how to throw some darts. Alright, continuing with the dart. So we talked about the actual dart. Let's talk about the back piece of the dart, which is actually two pieces. A dart consists of three different pieces; the shaft and the flight. So, coming back with you, there are different types of shafts. There are cheaper ones that are plastic and as you go up in price value and when I say cheap, you know you can get three plastic ones for fifty cents sometimes, they're that cheap. Then you have composite, which of course are a little bit more. Then you have solid aluminum, which is even more. And then you have something like what I have, where it allows the flight to spin. Some people say it doesn't really help with the actual flight of the dart because of how far it is. Geometrics says it doesn't help, or aerodynamics says it doesn't help. I think it looks kind of cool, so that's why I get them. You know, it looks kind of fancy. And then we have to talk about the flight. The flight, there's hard flights, there's nylon flights, they're the most durable, by the way. There's dimplexity riblex, which have texture, it stiffens the flight. And then you have the soft flights. What's great about flights, though, or I think, is that you could pretty much have any kind of logo or, if you're favorite baseball team is the Mets or the Yankees here in New York City, of course you could have that. Or you could be from Boston, and have that too."