The Axe Badger Blog

Every few months I come across a fellow thrower or a post on faceflop about how axe throwing is taking its last, desperate puffs of a...

Yesterday was the fourth week of our Wednesday league. A day, dear reader, that I normally feel is a little special. A little treat...

First, let me apologize for abandoning you last week. You see, I had the Norovirus, and I was only capable of sleeping and cosplaying as...

I did a lot of unnecessary work to get three "P" words in a line there that made even a little bit of sense, so be patient with me as I...

All good things come to an end, and time continues its ever-shuffle toward eventual entropy, now is the time that we reflect on what...

Pebbles sent in another banger of a post, and I just couldn't find a reason to wait on publishing it. So put on your tin foil hat and get...

Today is the very first day I felt anywhere close to my typical, gregarious self. For the past...hell...12 days (!) I've been very, very...

There is a perennial issue with axe throwing which, truthfully, we as a community really don’t have a handle on. Axe throwing is fun,...

At some point in your axe throwing life, it’ll happen. Probably multiple times, really: your axe venue will start burning down. And while...

It's here: the one night every ~2 months that feels like a high school dance. Where the performance of the past 7 weeks disappears and I...

You know what? I'm tired of pretending like I care about this sport. Giving helpful advice, meeting people - helping this community grow...

I've noticed something, dear reader. As I shuffle around on this mortal coil and begin to get familiar with axe throwing in particular, I...

It was the beginning of September. Still very hot, still very much summer here in Lancaster, PA. I was dillying. Dallying. Then I got an...

Dear reader, we all wanna win a bit. Maybe you haven't a single competitive bone in yer body, but there is at least a part of you - maybe...

I know we're pretty lovey-dovey, everything is fun and great and everyone is fun and great and whatEVER here at Axe Badger headquarters,...

Some of us have tee shirts. Others wear jerseys like we're part of a bowling alley league. Honestly, I think these are both fantastic...

Now, I could start this post by going into a whole discussion about the concept of tribalism and how it is thought that humanity, due to...

This was my first year competing in the Urban Open, having gone as a spectator last year to support fellow leaguers and to get sweet,...

The Urban Open was the very first bigtime tournament I went to. Granted, I didn't compete that first time (I didn't yet understand the...

PERCEPTION, REALITY, AND THE FRUSTRATION OF KNOWING JUST ENOUGH. Well, dear readers, I want to admit something to you all: I kinda failed...