I’ll say this about BOOM 🧨 BOOM: they are one of the most prepared interviewees I’ve encountered. Given they have a background in sports-related interviews, I felt entirely like I was a rookie reporter for a middle school newspaper trying…
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Axe Thrower Interview: Maydayy Maydayy!
This was the very first axe thrower interview I did at IATC 2026, and it shows: I didn’t really ask many follow up questions, stuck to what I wrote down (frantically) on the trip to Port Lands, and (in listening…
IATC 2026 Photos: Under 60, under 70, CBNC and Slayer
As many of you know, this year I was lucky/fortunate/blessed enough to have my partner, Mollie, come along for a full week of IATC 2026 shenanigans. But not just to eat a bunch of food and drink a lot and…
IATC 2026: The Good, The Bad, The Poutine.
Dear reader, where to even start. IATC 2026 was, for me, the largest series of axe throwing days I’ve experienced. I flew up on Tuesday and started watching/talking/covering/not sleeping in earnest on Wednesday. Meaning I experienced the glory of our…
My Big IATC Plans and Schemes
With IATC 2026 a mere month away, I’ve decided to really buckle down and prepare for my third trip to Hogtown. You may be thinking I’m in the same boat, Badger! I’ve been practicing my big axe and my Premier…
About the IATC Jersey Thing
Update: After this post published, the IATF reversed the decision to require jerseys this year. You can read their statement here. I kinda waffled on writing anything about this IATC jersey topic. For one, the way it blew up on…
IATC Round 1: Consequences, Accountability and the cost of progress
If you’re even a little active on axe throwing social media (first, God help you), you’re aware at this point of the fall out from the IATF’s decision to disqualify throwers from BATL and Celtic Axe due to throwing outside…
IATC Interview: Dannie
During one of my famous “there are too many people here and they are looking at me, probably” moments during IATC, Dannie, the contracted social media agent for the IATF, passed by and told me something kind and nice. Naturally,…
IATC 2025 in about 120 pictures
IATC 2025 happened this past weekend, and I’ve finally managed to dig out from all the sleepiness and content gathering to present to you, dear reader, the ~120 pictures that weren’t absolute garbage (out of the ~2000 pictures I took.…
Post tourney blues – dealing with the drop.
It can strike almost instantly – in fact, it hit me just as we were crossing the border between New York and Pennsylvania (on the way back from Toronto) – the “drop.” Having post-tourney-morbs is well documented in axe throwing.…