Throw axes

“As we step inside, we hear cheers celebrating bulls-eyes, yelps of disappointment, and, of course, the sound of metal axes clunking against the wooden targets and hitting the metal ground. It’s like the clang of your dad dropping a wrench in the garage as he tries to fix something, before he swears at himself and goes inside to call a professional. A 1.5 pound ax feels a lot heavier in your hand than you’d expect, thanks to the leverage of having its metal slab at the end of a wooden pole. Ideally, your ax will rotate forward one full, 360-degree spin, the sharp, top corner of its blade landing straight into the wood slab’s bullseye. I can throw a baseball. A tennis ball to my brother’s dog in the backyard. An ax is a new one for me. My first throw hits the wood and clangs to the ground, a sad reject. But on the second and third, I successfully stick my ax in the wooden target. I begin to envision myself in ax-throwing competitions, a seasoned professional.”

“I now know that tossing a sharpened chunk of metal so that it will stick into a piece of wood takes a lot more skill than it sounds, especially when you throw alcohol into the mix. A group of Emma’s co-workers planned the Sunday axe throwing event and invited us along (who wouldn’t want to randomly go BYOB axe throwing). I had never been to an official axe throwing establishment so I had no idea what to expect. Honestly it blew me away. Axe throwing is a lot more complicated than just chucking an axe at wood as hard as you can. Since it was late Sunday night, our booking was the only one, we basically had the whole space to ourselves to jam tunes, have fun and throw axes. We started the night out with the mandatory accident waiver and a brief introduction about Bad Axe Throwing. After we signed our life away and grabbed another beer our teacher showed us the proper axe throwing forms. The teacher was engaging while he explained the correct way to handle and throw each type of axe.”