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John's Signature Series of darts, and Fit Flights will be available on the Cosmo Darts website soon.

For now, here is a preview from the BCA show recently held in Las Vegas.

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These images were taken from the video for the 1981 North American Open. The shot is the winning dart at double 14 for defeating Eric Bristow and claiming the NAODT Singles Title.

Photo courtesy of L. David Irete. Thank you David, for sharing memories with the darting world.

For viewing the video clip, look for my page on FaceBook.

The images below are from BullsEye News

January/February 1986 issue March 2001 issue

Want to read the entire interview with John published in BEN for the Jan/Feb 1986 issue seen above?

FaceBook members can access it by clicking HERE

Check out some historic North American Open Dart Tournament images!

The image on the left was from the 1981 North American Open where JK defeated Eric Bristow in the final and is being congratulated by the late Tom Fleetwood.

The image on the right was from the 1999 North American Open where JK defeated Roger Carter in the final. He is joined onstage by Winnie Outcalt of the Southern California Darts Association and David Kurtz from Accudart.

Wanna see what it's like to be a World Cup gold and silver medalist?

Images are from the 1985 World Cup event in Brisbane, Australia where the American team did the unthinkable and defeated the England team 9-0 in the semi-finals and went on to beat the Australian team in the final to claim the gold medal in the team event.

Pictured below with JK are fellow team members Rick Ney, Tony Payne, the late Danny Valletto and team captain, Glenn Remick.

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Some prior history of John's finishes throughout his darting career

John Kramer

December 15, 1956

Camp LeJeune, North Carolina

Hometown: Laguna Niguel, CA

Nickname: “JK”

John Kramer started playing darts in 1974 in the weight room at his high school while recovering from a knee injury sustained during a high school football game. John quickly discovered he had a knack for the game and played his first professional tournament in Ventura, California the weekend after graduation in 1975.

John enjoyed much success during his playing days from 1975 through 1987, including his first North American Open singles title, where he defeated world #3 ranked player, Jocky Wilson in the semi-final and the #1 player in the world at that time, Eric Bristow in the final.

In 1982 he competed in the 1982 World Darts Championship, but was defeated by English darts player Tony Brown in the first round.

His national ranking in 1985 earned him a spot on the US World Cup team to compete in Brisbane, Australia. The US won the team gold medal at World Cup V, which saw them defeat the English team 9-0, before going on to defeat the Australian team to win the gold medal. The US team also brought home the Silver medal for their 2nd place finish overall.

1985 also brought John to the US#1 ranking and his first Bulls-Eye News magazine cover.

1987 was when he first retired from the game due to personal reasons and John enjoyed his spare time playing tournament and league softball.

1999 saw a resurgence of John’s darting career after a 12-year absence, where he enjoyed many successes, including a second North American Open singles title (defeating US player Roger Carter), being part of the rare accomplishment of winning both Open Doubles events at the Las Vegas Open (with Chris White) in 2001, and a second Bulls-Eye News magazine cover.

2002 brought on a second retirement from darts and his venture into tournament paintball.

2006 has brought on another resurgence into darts. Enjoying more success at events such as the Wild West Shootout and the San Francisco Open with Open Cricket singles titles for both.

2007 added some semi-final and finals, but the quest for the perfect dart showed in the finishes. 2008 saw an Open Singles Championship for the San Diego Memorial Open.

2009 was a pretty quiet year with limited travel to national tournaments.

In 2010, John experienced some health related issues that limited his travel and competition, however, he did manage two top 4 finishes of the open doubles at the 2010 San Francisco Open.

2011 saw some finals appearances for the Gold Coast Shootout and San Diego Memorial Open.

2012 is looking to be a new year with many new and exciting things going on, as we have relocated to New York and already have plans to attend multiple major tournaments. John is in his second year with Cosmo Darts out of Japan for his sponsorship deal, and his signature darts and Fit Flights are now available!

Stay tuned for more updates on John's plans for travel for 2012 and his sponsorship with Cosmo Darts, as products become available.

Article courtesy of

Let's Talk Darts

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San Francisco Darts Association

SF Open 2006

Write up & Results

"Par Riihonen decided to come from Sweden as his aunt lives here. He's one whale of a player! In Friday's blind draw doubles I saw him put up 3 180's in two legs of a best of three. I expect him to be in the hunt today as I believe his doubles partner is a local named Don Campos who's at #102 in the current ADO ranking.

John Kramer is the husband of Anne Kramer (sleepykramer). I'm certain he has ice water in his veins. One cool character and as funny as they come! I defer to sleepykramer on this character as there is so much to him you'd need a book to get it all in! Though I must add that he's one lucky guy, as Anne is about as wonderful as they come! Surprisingly her Sewa-darts.com avatar really does represent who she is as a person. Happy, confident, fun and engaging!

Curiously enough, kids are drawn to powerful people as adults are and mine was just mesmerized by John during the cricket finals. Afterwards, we walked over to him and congratulated him on his win, and he offered my boy a set of his darts. Pure old school class is the only way to describe John Kramer.

John Denich is SEWA's own ochekid, and he's the other half of that 11 dart wonder yesterday. He's drinking the same 'kool aid' as John Kramer. Bring your poker face and prozac if you're gonna go up against this guy. Lights out Darts, that sums up his game! Wish you well in Colorado next weekend John!

What I didn't know about ochekid is that he's Canadian by birth and so shares darting roots with Chris White (CW). For most of us in the Bay Area CW is THE local icon of the game, but ochekid showed his prowess against CW yesterday in an awesome way. The final member in the Canadian triumvirate here is David Fatum, who's living in Arizona these days. David is currently ranked at #29 in the ADO rankings and has one of the smoothest easiest strokes I've seen. Makes we want to video tape it, and keep it for reference.

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