Darts World Cup in full swing - arrow sport makes the cash register ring in Maisach
Created: 12/27/2022, 1:19 p.m
By: Peter Loder
Thomas Puhl is a die-hard darts fan.
Especially in the winter months, he and his friends often reach for their arrows.
The man from Mammendorf has now turned his passion into a career – and opened a shop in Maisach.
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When arrows are flying in London, business is booming in Maisach.
In Thomas Puhl's Dream Darts shop, the door never stands still.
At the beginning of November, the 52-year-old opened a shop - and thus filled a gap in the market just in time for the World Cup.
Maisach
– British pub sport has also become socially acceptable in this country at the latest since the darts world championship taking place in the venerable Ally Pally was broadcast live on German TV.
Darts, also known as cheating in Bavaria, is on the way to becoming an electrifying mass movement.
At least in the winter months, as Thomas Puhl says.
Neither can he explain this seasonal phenomenon exactly, nor can Benjamin Strehler, one of his many regular customers.
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Darts fever rises in December
Benjamin Strehler is one of his regular customers.
Like many other enthusiastic darts players, he is rooting for the World Cup currently taking place in London.
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When it's cold outside, people regularly play in the garage at home, says the Mammendorfer.
"In the summer we wouldn't even think of it, we play table tennis." But by November at the latest, the darts will be aimed at the round disc attached to the wall.
As the annual World Cup approaches in December, "a switch is flipped for customers," says Puhl, who has all the equipment for the precision game.
Newcomers have to reckon with 150 to 200 euros for the basic equipment including target and arrows.
If the darts fever has really grabbed, go into detail.
Illuminated discs, mats or bags then belong on the wish list.
The flights, the wings at the end of the arrows, are of great importance.
They essentially determine its flight characteristics.
That's why they also aroused the interest of Benjamin Strehler, who asked Thomas Puhl about the intricacies of this small but fine detail.
The Maisach entrepreneur, who comes from the IT industry, started his darts business with an online shop in the basement of his apartment.
Because the rush in the private rooms was increasing and the customers also want to touch or test the goods delivered directly from the manufacturers in England and the Netherlands, the vacant shop on the main street came at just the right time.
Now the DreamDarts shop is the only specialty shop of this kind west of Munich after a competitor based in Moorenweis died and the shop there has been closed since October.
Darts has long since said goodbye to the beery pub image and has become socially acceptable.
Although the fans at Ally Pally are said to be keen drinkers, the sport of skill can only be mastered when you are wide awake.
Business sponsors darts pro
While a club has established itself in Emmerings Alter Wirt in the official league game operations, "darts are more likely to take place here in the underground", as Puhl describes the private environment of tournaments.
In Olching, for example, a championship round that was founded three years ago is held at a weekly changing venue with one of the now around 40 players.
The grand finale is in February.
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By then, the Ally Pally World Championships are long history, but will be vividly remembered again at the beginning of the year in Maisach.
On January 15, Thomas Puhl welcomes one of the German heroes of London to his shop: Florian Hempel may have been eliminated shortly before Christmas, but after only two World Cup appearances he is already in the top 50 in the world.
Because Hempel, who lives in Cologne by choice, and Puhl, who lives in Maisacher by choice, not only share the same passion, but also have common roots in Dessau, the shop owner is one of the main sponsors of the darts professional.
You can find more current news from the district of Fürstenfeldbruck at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.