I got the chance to speak with Ms. Marvel a day before we got to throw against each other in the Swiss Over tourney (a bracket I had absolutely no business being in) at Urban Open 2025. I learned a…
Author: Badger
An announcement from Don and Chopper’s Hatchet House
Last night, Don (the recently-minted owner of Choppers Hatchet House) reached out to me over messenger. We don’t interact much, really, and I kinda suspected the reason he’d be sending me a message on a Monday evening. For the sake…
An exit interview.
I’m uncomfortable at Urban Open. Exhausted, really, even though it’s only the first day. A mix of trying to photograph everything (while not being a photographer) and working up the nerve to ask people to talk with me for blog…
Tiny axe thrower interview: Huckabear
This was my very first interview at Urban Open this year – one that I tried to secure during IATC but, alas, I ran out of time. HuckABear is well known in the sport and, by all accounts, a slayer.…
400 and 69 pictures from Urban Open 2025
Urban Open 2025 and come and gone, and I spent the greater majority of my time in those hallowed halls snapping away pictures. I think, in total, I had about 4k of them to go through. I managed to snickersnack…
Throwing Axe Review: True Temper Dynamic
Every so often I come across something where I’m surprised by both how uncommon it is, and by function. Like when I found a perineum glosser at a local antique store, or a pair of 32-waist pants in my closet.…
No Sleeves. No Mercy. Get your axe throwing battle vest gang patch!
One of the best things to come out of axe throwing – outside of the deep sense of connection, achievement, and goofiness, is the axe throwing battle vest. It makes people outside of axe throwing think oh, geez, we got…
Tuesday Tip: Staying still and movement.
Nobody really taught me how to throw. At least, not actively. Not when I was first starting out. I’ve had just oodles of teachers. People I’ve looked up to. People I’ve mimicked and asked questions to and, for 30 minutes…
12 Bowling-esque animations to add some excitement to axe throwing
AxeScores is…well…it’s fine. And I’m sure the new app has a bunch of improvements. I’d guess about $2.99 a month’s worth of improvements. But, for my part, I think one BIG improvement we can implement now as a community is…
Stop the stat-stare: learning to enjoy the sport and not the metrics.
We’ve got a lot of delicious markers in axe throwing. An average patch. An 81 coin. Another 81 coin. Another one after that. Prolly another that I don’t even know about. We’ve got AxeScores (sometimes) and can see (for now)…