When the IATF came out with their series of Premier-centric axes, I lept at the opportunity to get one (read: Chapman said the IATF Premier throwing axe was at worlds and asked if I wanted one, and I said yes).…
Author: Badger
Beat The IATF At Their Own Game
he IATF has worked dilligently to create a sport that is fair, balanced, and fun for everyone who hucks an axe. But you’re not here to have fair, balanced fun. You’re here to WIN and to WIN you need to…
Throw Better? No. Throw However.
If you’ve spent even one drunken hour throwing in a league, you’ve likely bumped into one of the unofficial slogans of axe throwing. No, not “Premier is dumb” and no, not necessarily “I’m getting a new axe and I swear,…
Is The IATF Code of Conduct Enough?
When you really like something, you become more and more willing to ignore when things about it aren’t quite right. Axe throwing is, for me at least, a way of stepping out of my day-to-day and do something that is…
Let’s Talk Budget: Axe Throwing Gets Pricey, And Will Get Pricier.
Axe throwing started out like so many fringe sports: low point of entry on cost, “whatever works” mentality and, of course, drinking. But it’s graduated from those waddling baby steps into an activity that can cost a-plenty of hard earned…
3 Ways to Throw Axes Real Good Like.
Hitting a plateu or hoping to level up your axe throwing? Well hell, friend, who isn’t? Here are a few ways I’ve helped boost my axe throwing accuracy and consistency. Yes, I have three ways to throw axes real good…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: The Russian Viking
During the Harry Potter Marathon, I got the chance to sit down (we were both standing, actually, at the bar in the Meadery) with The Russian Viking to chit chat. TRV has actually visited the meadery pretty often as of…
The Most Important Stat in Axe Throwing
The most important stat in axe throwing? How many axes you own, amirite? I will tell you something that I suspect many of you have already surmised about your humble narrator – I am not really all that great at…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Christina, AKA Big Axe Energy
I had the chance to interview IATF Panel of Throwers member, friendly-as-hell, throwing phenom Christina at the Harry Potter Marathon League put on by Meduseld Meadery here in Lancaster, PA. Not only did I have the great pleasure of getting…
The Nightmare After Choptober
It started like any other Halloween night. Trick-or-treaters guilting adults into giving them bigger handfuls of candy, adults without kids trying desperately to figure out how to construct a costume using a single pillow case and…what is that…a bowtie from…