After owning a set of throwing knives for, like, a year and a half, I finally got the chance to use them in a league. After a very open, loosey-goosey sort of invitation, I gathered up my road dawg OtterGuy…
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Tuesday talk: the ambiguous IATF step rule, and a few suggestions
Earlier today, I published a post about the value in pausing before your throw (to get an actual read on your position, making for a more accurate throw). I knew that pausing for too long (or, maybe at all?) was…
AALOTO Broken Calculators
Life is full of assumptions; it needs to be for us to function. Assumptions are just things we believe without having vetted them thoroughly. If we had to check, judge, verify, and evaluate every piece of information coming at us every day,…
A (great) update on the future of Chopper’s
As of yesterday morning, Don Caro, third of his name, became the newest tenant of a previously-used axe house in south Philly. Don has high hopes that the new location will be operational very soon. Sure, there’s some setup and…
Join the 2025 Clutch-A-Thon!
Dear reader, sometimes a great plan just comes together. What makes a great plan? Well, bud, that’s when doing something good is both easy to accomplish and fun. That’s the recipe. And it seems like Ericka (Throwing Bows) has gone…
Tiny axe thrower interview: Native
Dear reader: maybe a year ago, I interviewed Native. But, me being me, I actually recorded nothing at all. It’s a shame, as the entire interview happened in a rain storm, and it was very romantic/dramatic. But I had the…
Chopper’s rejected all my tee shirt designs
The last Choptober (at Cherry Hill) is coming up, and as part of that bittersweet event, the axe house is running a little contest: a “Choptober Challenge” tee shirt design contest, to be exact about it. Well, you know full…
The freedom of just donking an axe throwing season.
Well, I won’t say I planned it this way, but here we are. Last week was the first of the newest Wednesday league at Meduseld Meadery. A time of possibility. Of renewed opportunity and, perhaps even, a chance to have…
The Axe Thrower’s Perfected Diet: The Jester and the Banana.
When humankind looks back at its greatest leaps forward, certain names shine bright: Edison giving us the lightbulb, Curie unlocking the secrets of radiation, the Wright brothers teaching us to fly. And then, in the humid, high-pressure crucible of the…
Axe Couples Counseling
If you could wager on “most common responses to a question posed to a community,” I’d put the house on knowing the axe community’s most common answer to: “What’s your favourite thing about Axe Throwing?” “The people, the community, the friends I’ve made.” …