Okay, listen. I love this sport. I love how quirky a lot of it is, I like that it’s not perfect, and I like that we still have lots of room to figure it out/change it/experiment. But as I nestle…
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The One, Under-discussed Skill Every Axe Thrower Eventually Needs to Learn
Gather ’round, dear readers, and let me tell you one of the great secrets of our sport (and, really I suppose, all sports). It took me a long time to learn this skill in general, but I figured it out…
Did the IATF Even CONSIDER the Impact of their New Rules? Because I Have.
The newest packet of rules updates may seem fairly straight forward on casual glance: a new touch clutch for Premier, clarifications on rules around big axe clutch attempts and how qualifying works. But on a deeper read, there is a…
The Axe Venue is Dead. Long Live The Axe Venue!
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…
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…
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…
Axe-olutions 2024
Topical! I do a lot of thinking about axe throwing in general, it being a way for me to turn off my brain from that icky thinking that comes with existing in this dumpster-fire world. But I honestly don’t do…
Is The IATF Code of Conduct Enough?
When you really like something, you become more and more willing to ignore when things about it aren’t quite right. Axe throwing is, for me at least, a way of stepping out of my day-to-day and do something that is…
Let’s Talk Budget: Axe Throwing Gets Pricey, And Will Get Pricier.
Axe throwing started out like so many fringe sports: low point of entry on cost, “whatever works” mentality and, of course, drinking. But it’s graduated from those waddling baby steps into an activity that can cost a-plenty of hard earned…