Nice axes are nice. We all know that pull when coming across a truly beautiful axe and feeling our hands, unwittingly, reaching for our Venmo accounts. James Coverdale’s work is exactly that: I almost immediately abandoned my “no new axes”…
Author: Badger
Fighting Against Stormtrooper Syndrome
A quick note: if you haven’t already, check out the most recent episode of “Not Axe Murderers” where I’m the guest! You can watch/listen to it right here. Chances are high, if you throw axes that is, you’ve experienced a…
Spice up your boring ass league-night streams.
We live in a fascinating, modern time. We got hot pockets. We got tiny gramaphones in our pockets that play almost all the music ever made in the last 1,000 years. We got pet videos like, whenever we want. But,…
Profit vs purpose: Are axe venues a business, or a community hub?
There is a perennial issue with axe throwing which, truthfully, we as a community really don’t have a handle on. Axe throwing is fun, sure, but turning fun into a self-sustaining sport is tricky. So tricky, in fact, we’ve seen…
The Name Game: A few axe throwing nickname suggestions
Hello friends, your least favourite superhero, C-man here. On this cold winter night of November the spooky season is over but I’m here to bring the scream one more time. At least to your venue owners, today I’m pitching some…
The joy of being a mid-level boss fight in axe throwing.
We all have roles in this little funtime sport of ours. Some of us are champions – collecting podium finishes, big checks, and plaques – like an overweight pigeon in a park near a retirement home. Others of us are…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Stephen Haldis aka Heavin’ Stephen
Stephen is a longtime friend of this blog. He sent me a few messages here and there when I first started the thing, and I had the good fortune of meeting him at IATC last year while I was freaked…
What to do when your axe venue is burning.
At some point in your axe throwing life, it’ll happen. Probably multiple times, really: your axe venue will start burning down. And while it’s important to allow yourself the grief and frustration of having your axe venue ignite, especially after…
Axe Thrower (Slash Photographer) Interview: Matt Traino
For this interview, I wanted to get a perspective I hadn’t yet encountered: the photographer. Now, obviously chances are fairly high that any photographer hired for an axe throwing tourney (in this case, Choptober) would have some background in axe…
Getting Better at Axe Throwing Means Creating More Space Between Failure.
It’s election day across the states, and while I have big thoughts and fee fees about that business, I ALSO really enjoy not thinking about any of it, and since I am the only person with login access to this…