Darts star Dimitri van den Bergh has opened up on a small trick he uses to deal with players tooting the oche. Van den Bergh was the latest tungsten thrower to speak about “fartgate” – when James Wade let rip at the oche , leaving both his opponent Peter Wright and referee Owen Binks in shock. The incident was so potent that Snakebite made to step away from the oche as he laughed uncomfortably. As Wade went to collect his darts from the board, he quipped: “It slipped out. Give it a second.” The Belgian star believes the best thing to do is to try to ignore it and “breathe quicker”. He told talkSPORT : “I hate that. I make sure whatever I could do, it happened already at the toilet. “Sometimes you’ve just got to accept it, at the end of the day, it’s only a smell. Breathe quicker and it’s gone.” Van den Bergh has spent time away from the oche in recent months – and he’s opened up on the benefits of slowing down: “Fantastic, because I was feeling really bad with myself, with my body, my mental health. “(For) ten years I have done all the tournaments that I possibly could and I just kept pushing. I kept going forward. In these ten years a lot of things have happened. I’m going to be a dad in July, my second little girl is going to come to the world. “I’m already a dad from another kid who’s three-and-a-half-years-old now. All of that just gives you a different perspective to life and my dreams have always been to do what I love most, which is play darts and be successful at it. “But I also wanted to have my own family and build a future, build a legacy. So these things were very important to me and I just tried to keep playing well but for some reason I was just tiptoeing at the same place. “So I said, ‘I’ll take a step back, come back stronger’ and that’s still my goal. That’s still my mission. “I know whatever I’m doing at home with eating healthy, going to the gym, taking care of myself, practicing a lot, it’s working for me. Plus, I’ve got extra time with the family.”