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Winter and the holiday season oftentimes can make emotions swing a disproportionate amount, compared to the rest of the year. Truth is, there are plenty of human brains out there affected by seasonal depression -- or just the melancholy of colder, darker months. Convincing your brain (either through therapy, or medication, or whatever works) is a tricky business -- point in fact, it's a very, very hard thing to battle it out with your own brain when you (that same brain) is t

On Sunday, I threw in a marathon big axe league. Well, "threw" is a bit of a misnomer: I was there, and I chucked axes at a target, but I don't know if you'd qualify anything I did at that marathon as axe throwing. Because I finished pretty poorly, I doubt there is anything beneficial I could share with you about the experience (save for maybe this: I deci ded to say "eff it" pretty early on, and it made the whole experience much more enjoyable for me). Instead, I thought I'd

Axe throwing is great. It’s fun. The big thing people’ve (yeah, I made a new contraction. I don’t care) said during interviews and promo videos and thank you posts is that the axe throwing  community  is the real cherry inside the sundae. And that—as far as this humble badger has seen—is absolutely true. The axe throwing community is second-to-none. We somehow lucked into having a near cult-like support network with each other, forming intense, seemingly lifelong friendships

YES! YES! GATHER ROUND DEAR THROWKIN! IT'S TIME! CLUTCHMISS IS HERE! Now, for those of you who don't pay attention to every fakakta idea I share here , Clutchmiss is a celebration for axe throwers that allows us to come together, appreciate each other, and make offerings to Clutchy for fewer missed clutches in the coming year. I think that's what I said last time? I don't really remember. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The beautiful thing about Clutchmiss is how it doesn't have a

I think the first time I met Marcus was at Clutch Shot for a marathon league. He was quiet and very, very good. But he was also hella friendly and had one of the best stickers I'd seen in the sport. I had the chance to catch up with him at Choptober this year, and the net result is this tiny axe thrower interview: Badger: How long have you been throwing? Throwdo : Just about six years now. I started at Mazhu Axes, which was in Philly, then I transitioned over to Choppers and

HOLIDAY POST - HOLIDAY POST - GATHER ROUND ALL FOR A HOLIDAY POST! In a not-at-all-surprising move, I've written a generic "get some cheap clicks" post about how you, dear reader, can bring some axe throwing fun into your awkward, overcooked, stressed-out holiday traditions! Yes, Thanksgiving has become a minefield of conversation and appreciation, with the reason for the holiday being at best confusing and at worst a hotbed for conversations with relatives who want to apolog

The Axe Badger has gone from a tiny, little pet project where I satisfy my need to write about everything I'm doing into an internationally-read (cannot believe I'm serious about that) website. And while I'm still notching a lot of readership/getting recognized when I go places/getting awkward when I go places and get recognized, I realize that I've kinda hit...well...I've kinda hit a slump. Okay, maybe not a "slump" but a predictability. Interview, sappy post, junk advice po

The last* Choptober was more than the closing of one tradition and the beginning of the next. Yes, dear reader, I maintained my own tradition of buying an axe at the event, despite my stupid, pointless belief that I wouldn’t. The axe in question was in fact by a maker I didn’t have in my stable yet: Red Beaver Custom Axes —but I couldn’t pass it up. There was just…I dunno…something about it. So, after haggling a little bit on price (because that’s part of the joy), I went hom

Babs, even before I started talking to him, struck me as the affable sort. A friendly demeanor, happy to carry a conversation on with anyone, and just generally into being a part of the tourney we were at. It was only one the second day that I realized 1. he was the rep from the southeast, and 2. he made really nice axe sheaths. I kinda fell into this axe thrower interview after talking to him for a spell about his sheath-making process, only realizing after ten minutes that