The standard practice throwing and receiving stations are great but are obviously lacking the table layout to line up off of. The other day at MS (missed two good friends by a day) Little Debbie was putting on a picture perfect display of what a throw should be. We all should be lucky enough to have little fingers and her grip of the dice I know Bob Convertito’s looking on her with a smile. She was killing the hardways and made a lot of numbers but her landings too often ended in the mixing bowl and that dreaded number would appear. It can be a challenge to if you’re not over 6′ tall. The answer for alignment was starring at me in our basement practice area/my workshop. Having recently checked painting the kitchen/dinning room off my "honey do" list a roll of painter’s tape was on the workbench in front of me. Our practice surface is green felt with no markings to line up off of. I took the tape and put a 4" piece above the green pyramids at the back wall just clear of the mixing bowl, then lined up on the throwing station the same distance out from the rail with a laser (a string would do). I lined up across the throwing station a line of tape, and then did the same on our receiving station running the tape to where the pass line would have been at a casino. This simple blue line has made a great improvement in my landings. For me the fact that I lacked a reference point to line up on was allowing me to develop a bad habit of failing to square my shoulders and my landings would not be consistent. Now I make sure that both my shoulders are lined up on the blue line and my dice are landing perfectly. I highly recommend this to everyone add a line of painter’s tape to your practice rig today, worst case it pulls right off.

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