Listen, I love throwing a hunk of metal into a hunk of wood as much as the next person, but the truth is this: practicing this sport can get reaaaaaaaaaaaaaal repetitive. Throw, retrieve, throw, retrieve. What am I, an adorable…
Author: Badger
How to haul your axes: a primer
Walking around town with an axe in your hands is, typically, not a very convenient move for most throwers. Unless you live in some sort of hard working, everyone-is-a-lumberjane scenario, you’ll need a way to carry your axes about in…
Want a Better Throw? Limit Yer Movement
Before some throwers blast their way into the comments section and let me know how wrong I am, let me start with a statement: If you’ve got a throw that’s already working for you, and you look like you’re performing…
Lo-Fi Axe Tourney Vibes for Axe Throwers
Want those axe tourney sounds without all the body odor and guilt? Here’s a little lo-fi recording to help you through the work day. So kick back, tune out, and get all those tourney feels without the indigestion of bar…
Spice up Axe Throwing League Night
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…
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…