Phil isn’t the only small, round and hairy prognosticator, it seems. On Tuesday, I wrote up a little blog post about growth and decline in the sport of axe throwing. Bring yourselves low and tremble, o mortals, for just the…
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Does The Growth of Axe Throwing Matter, and Should We Care?
Axe throwing is, like any other non-traditional sport, one that struggles with an even spread of players who have participated for a very long time, and brand-new players (I mean throwers, of course, but I didn’t want to mix up…
Tomorrow is my Axe Throwing League Tourney and I’m Preparing via the Transitive Property.
An odd quirk of having Meduseld Meadery as one’s axe house is how they aren’t open Monday or Tuesday. That means one can’t practice at said axe house until Wednesday (which is, you know, one of two league nights). So…
Hey Gang, I Donked This Axe League Real Bad. That’s Okay.
PERCEPTION, REALITY, AND THE FRUSTRATION OF KNOWING JUST ENOUGH. Well, dear readers, I want to admit something to you all: I kinda failed myself during the Wednesday night league (we still have the 7th week and the tourney, but I…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Flick Flick Boom
Before I start this interview in earnest, I want to say that Flick made everyone a whole lotta breakfast meats before we even started practicing in earnest (for the NYD marathon in Baltimore). It was like I was in The…
Marathon Leagues: The Best Worst Thing in the Sport of Axe Throwing
Axe Throwing marathon leagues, in spirit, are something that everyone who loves the sport should be into. They overcome some of the most annoying elements of league – I’m referring to, of course: and that makes a marathon league very…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Furiosa
Furiousa was kind enough to stand near me at Urban Axes Baltimore and give me a quick, little interview as we were just starting to wake up for the day. NOTE: this was my very first interview, at like 9-something…
Tiny Axe Thrower Interview: Ericka “Bows” Gannon.
I traveled with Otter Guy to my ancestral home of Baltimore for the New Year’s Day Marathon Tourney (more on that in a much longer, much weirder post soon to come), and as such had yet another opportunity to interview…
Selected Notes From Urban Axes Baltimore NYD Over/Under Tourney
While I’ve attempted to write a longform article about my experience at the Urban Axes Baltimore and their New Year’s Day Over/Under tourney, I find that there’s a lot to say and it might be a bit…I dunno…slow-paced for what…
5 Axe Throwing Scams That, Frankly, I’m Amazed Don’t Exist Already
Wherever you have people enjoying something, you will have other people trying to make a buck on it. And while this isn’t a blog that discusses the nature of free-reign capitalism or how all war is class war, this is…