In a startling about face, the IATF has recently announced the debate about Premier vs. Touch Clutch vs. Standard is over: every goddamn thing counts as points. Appearing on a front porch (not hers) and wearing a bath robe from…
Author: Badger
What’s Your Axe Throwing Nickname?
There is nothing more difficult, nothing more EMBARASSING than not having a nickname as an axe thrower. Pivotal, missed clutches. Accidentally throwing with your axe cover still on your axe. Messing up in Axescores. ALL OF THEM MOMENTARY, COMPARED TO…
New Throwing Axe Review: A Custom Flying Fox by Garrett Stidham
Friends, there comes a time in every young axe-throwers life when they find the purchase of off-the-shelf axes to be…unsatisfying. Sure, the type of axe you throw has some impact on your throwing, but really it’s the skill, dedication, and…
The Mental Game, Or: How I am learning to get out of my own way.
Axe throwing is a lot of things. It’s finding the right axe for you, it’s learning how to throw well (consistently). It’s getting your first axe name and figuring out where your line happens to be between drinking and still…
Did the IATF Even CONSIDER the Impact of their New Rules? Because I Have.
The newest packet of rules updates may seem fairly straight forward on casual glance: a new touch clutch for Premier, clarifications on rules around big axe clutch attempts and how qualifying works. But on a deeper read, there is a…
New IATF Rules, Who Dis?
That’s right, dear reader – your friend Badger has all the hot takes on the newest rules the IATF presented to us yesterday here. Let’s see what’s on the menu, hmm? BIG AXE CLUTCH ATTEMPTS In the before times, looooong…
The Axe Venue is Dead. Long Live The Axe Venue!
Phil isn’t the only small, round and hairy prognosticator, it seems. On Tuesday, I wrote up a little blog post about growth and decline in the sport of axe throwing. Bring yourselves low and tremble, o mortals, for just the…
Does The Growth of Axe Throwing Matter, and Should We Care?
Axe throwing is, like any other non-traditional sport, one that struggles with an even spread of players who have participated for a very long time, and brand-new players (I mean throwers, of course, but I didn’t want to mix up…
Tomorrow is my Axe Throwing League Tourney and I’m Preparing via the Transitive Property.
An odd quirk of having Meduseld Meadery as one’s axe house is how they aren’t open Monday or Tuesday. That means one can’t practice at said axe house until Wednesday (which is, you know, one of two league nights). So…
Hey Gang, I Donked This Axe League Real Bad. That’s Okay.
PERCEPTION, REALITY, AND THE FRUSTRATION OF KNOWING JUST ENOUGH. Well, dear readers, I want to admit something to you all: I kinda failed myself during the Wednesday night league (we still have the 7th week and the tourney, but I…