Listen. I know you forgot to pick up a card for your lovahhhh and that’s okay. Heck, maybe you even forgot to pick up a Valentine’s day card for your axe coach or your doubles partner. We at The Axe…
Author: Badger
Rejected IATF App questions
Tomorrow (Feb 12) at 5pm est, Commissioner Wilson is hosting a Q&A about the new IATF app: https://www.facebook.com/share/18mXm9rQF1/ Throwers were encouraged to send questions to ol’ Comish Wilson, and I jumped at the opportunity. Unfortunately, I apparently misunderstood what kind…
Lesser-known axe throwing hand signals.
We know the basics. Showing points. Indicating if you’re going up or staying down, all that jazz. But there are a whole bevvy of axe throwing hand signals you’re likely not using at all, and we here at The Axe…
Axe throwing isn’t dying, so stop thinking it is.
Every few months I come across a fellow thrower or a post on faceflop about how axe throwing is taking its last, desperate puffs of a vape pen. And surely, on the surface, it makes sense to believe so; axe…
I messed up by thinking too much: a guide.
Yesterday was the fourth week of our Wednesday league. A day, dear reader, that I normally feel is a little special. A little treat during the week where I get to do something I’m fairly good at, enjoy the company…
Axe care tips for people who don’t know a damn thing about axe care.
The love that axe throwers have for their axes (and, subsequently, the hatred axe throwers can feel for an axe that doesn’t “work” for them) is inescapable. We give them names, we talk to them between throws – hell, sometimes…
IATF Announces new pay-per-month premium app. I have feelings.
The IATF announced today the upcoming retirement of AxeScores (bye, bud. Thanks for my unhealthy obsession with ya), and the upcoming release of the IATF App: “The IATF is excited to introduce our new IATF App, set to replace the…
Naming your axes: a guide.
In the past, I’ve given ultra-helpful, totally serious guidance to folks who needed help with their axe-throwing nicknames. You’re welcome. But it occurred to me that, out of the two, naming your axes is far more difficult, and I guess…
Great Axpectations: Set goals, but don’t depend on ’em.
First, let me apologize for abandoning you last week. You see, I had the Norovirus, and I was only capable of sleeping and cosplaying as a gargoyle, so I didn’t have much drive or desire to write pithy things about…
Tips for carpooling to tourneys with axe throwers
Well, it was bound to happen. I’ve written about so many things on this blog that I’m left with the most loosely-associated topics to yap about. And with that glowing introduction, let’s talk about a wildly under-discussed element of our…