League night is a cornerstone of axe throwing. It’s where you develop as a thrower, where you meet new friends, and where you find your excuse for drinking. But it can get repetitive. The same throwers, the same matches. The…
Author: Badger
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Big Vic Energy
Big Vic Energy, despite being incredibly busy at the Urban Open, took a minute to talk to me about axe throwing and where the sport is going. Here is an abridged transcription of our tiny axe throwing interview! What have…
Urban Rules: A path forward, or a bumbling step sideways?
For a moment, let’s suspend the first rule of axe throwing (throw better) and instead imagine, if we can, that the sport has room to grow. More specifically, that the IATF has room to make the game more compelling, more…
Tiny axe thrower interview: Lightning McQueen
Lightning McQueen was kind enough to…well I guess stand up and not sit down, for a quick, tiny axe throwing interview after she absolutely crushed a match. I had never met Lightning before the interview, and have absolutely no idea…
2 kinda woo woo ways to improve your axe throw without throwing
Having time to practice axe throwing can be difficult. Some of us (I reckon most of us) don’t have access to a 24/7 target to throw at. And even so, jobs and family and a nagging sense that all of…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Jean Claude Vin Damme
Vin is kind of a…well I don’t wanna say legend, really…but he’s formative in my understanding of the sport and its direction. I first met him at a fundraising tourney thrown at Meduseld Meadery (my home axe house) and he…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Sex Metal Barbie
I had the great fortune of bumping into my very best friend in the world Melissa Crist, aka Sex Metal Barbie, at the 2023 Urban Open. She was kind enough to take a minute to answer my very abbreviated interview…
Urban Open 2023: Thoughts and Feelings
This past Sunday I travelled with Chapman to our ancestral home state’s capital for the Urban Open 2023. Now, I wasn’t going to compete at all, but Chapman was, having lucked into a waitlist opportunity. For my part, I was…
Rulesets: How much is too much?
The recent proposed WATL ruleset change has got a’plenty of feathers ruffled and jimmies rustled, and plenty of the uproar looks pretty justified. Whether it’s current throwers who are frustrated by the different rulesets for pro/amateur or the addition of…
Throw Better: What to do when you’re in a slump.
It happens to all of us: You’re starting to get good at the sport. You don’t outright drop every axe you throw, and can actually appear, at first blush, like you know what you’re doing. Hell, the axe house you throw at even wants to use your likeness in their advertising!