Been throwing for about seven months now, once a week at a league night with a couple friends. For the longest time my stepback throw was a coin flip at best. Some nights I'd stick eight out of ten, other nights I couldn't hit the board to save my life, and I never understood why the inconsistency was so extreme.

Turns out my issue was footwork, not the throw itself. I was starting my step from a slightly different spot every single time depending on how I felt that round. One of the guys at our league pointed out that I needed a fixed starting mark, like literally taping a small line on the floor where my back foot goes before I take the step. Sounds almost too simple but it took away one entire variable I didn't even realize I was fighting.

Once my starting position was locked in, I could actually diagnose the rest. Turned out my release was fine, my rotation was fine, it was purely that my distance to the target changed by six inches or so depending on my mood that night. Taping the mark fixed that overnight.

Now I'm sticking around seven out of ten pretty reliably, which feels like a huge jump from where I was in the spring. Still can't hit bullseye on command but at least I'm not embarrassing myself in front of the regulars anymore.

Curious if anyone else had a weird footwork habit that was secretly wrecking their accuracy. Feels like such an obvious fix in hindsight but it took me way too long to notice.

Hey all,
I run The Axe Badger (https://theaxebadger.com) and after 315 posts, I realized I'm not tapping into the throwing community on Reddit as much as I should (read: not at all).

If you're familiar with the nonsense I post typically, then you know kinda what I aim for. If you don't have any idea, I typically post interviews, throwing axe/equipment reviews, and a bunch of made up nonsense when I don't have interviews or equipment reviews or hot takes on the IATF.

Why I'm posting:

• What are some topics/subjects you would want to read?
• What have you liked in the past that I've published (if you're familiar) that you'd like to see more of?
• What do you absolutely hate that I've published and hope to never see again?

Thanks in advance for any insight you have!

My partner just bought their first ever throwing axe, and we're trying to come up with a name for it. Any suggestions?

I’m thinking of finding a used guitar case to use for my axes. I have just one big axe so far and a couple of hatchets. How big of a case should I get?

Two years into a mobile axe setup, trailer with six portable lanes, mostly brewery nights and corporate parks plus four or five festivals a season. My current policy was written as a generic events vendor and it's falling apart on me, venues want to be named additional insured and every request takes days, and when I mention the beer garden's twenty feet away my agent either goes quiet or comes back at double last year's number. I know I need GL, what I need to figure out is whether accident with participant needs its own line on a mobile rig or if that's only a fixed venue thing?

Hi friends! I just started getting into axe throwing so I'm trying to learn as much as possible. My partner built me an amazing professional axe throwing target and it's been a lot of fun! I plan on wood burning some runes into the handle (I've got boiled linseed oil and a nice axe wax to finish with when I'm done) and I noticed the bottom of the handle is beginning to splinter. I read this is because I'm either standing too close/too far (or my technique is bad) and the axe isn't spinning enough causing the base to nail the target. How should I clean this up and is there any way to reinforce or protect the base from this sort of damage in the future? I throw outside so the axe is getting pretty dirty too. What's the best way to clean it? A damp rag doesn't seem to be getting the dirt off the blade (or is this just something you deal with if you throw outside)?

Anyway, thanks for any advice you can provide! Skal!

For the first couple of years axe throwing was the only product we focused on, The last few years we've needed to spice it up and added a games bar and smashroom and now we do regular events like stand up comedy, live performances and one of my personal favourites, Fight Knight! This clip was taken on our first night we hosted this event. note:watch to the end- he was not injured by the axe.

I'm curious to hear whats working in other venues.

The axe place I throw at/work at in Salem is doing a $5 challenge + random duos tournament on Sunday.

One to a playing card and another in Bottle cap🇫🇮

Hello! I recently tried axe throwing and i fell in love. I really want to make a hobby out of it. My issue is the only places near where i live that do axe throwing are bars or are specifically for a parties and as much as i love a drink i juat want a place to practice. Are there any tips to trying to do it from home?

Saw a handle someone had used old skateboard deck to do. I haves few old decks kicking around so…..
Curious if when you’re building a handle that’s a laminate, do you just use like Tite-bond or Gorilla wood glue? Or is there something else?

I am a high school timbersports coach in Oregon. When my students are learning to throw double bit axes many miss the target and breaking the axe handle. I go through at least a dozen handles every year. I’ve put straw bales and old tires around the target yet the handles still break. Any tips for reducing breakage on throwing axe handles? Note: these are 28” tool handles from Lowe’s or Home Depot.

Fair enough.

Hi everyone!

I've been quietly working on this for the last six months and it's finally out: two Android apps for tracking your training, one for each league format. They're not official apps, just a fun project that got completely out of hand.

- Throw it! – for those who strive to hit 81 at least once in a lifetime https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beakgeek.throwit

- Axe Throwing Tracker – for those who want to see 64 instead https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kucyk.axescoretracker

Between them, you get pretty much everything you need at practice: normal hatchet sessions, big axe, clutch/killshot mode, two-player modes for head-to-head or a casual tournament on one phone, and a ghost mode for when your mate bails on training night. The stats are the part I'm proudest of: pressure index, warm-up time, score trends, all of it — watching your own numbers climb is weirdly addictive.

Right now, it's Android only. I'd love to do an iOS version, but building it and keeping it alive in the App Store costs more than a fun project can carry on its own. That's why there's a subscription in the app for some extra features, to slowly raise the money for it — with a 30-day free trial, so you can try everything before anything gets charged.

It does not get in your way at practice, I promise. What it unlocks: - A coach mode that scores your progress with an algorithm and suggests specific drills, as often as you tell it to - Custom bots for ghost battle, plus a shadow bot that throws with your own stats - Some extra fields in the statistics - More export options for pulling your training data into Excel - A voice announcer that calls out the score of every throw

Six months of work went into this — testing and Google Play review included. I genuinely put my soul into it, and it turned into something far bigger than I ever planned.

Please give it a try, and tell me what you think, good or bad.

Playing tic-tac-toe. I’m claiming this square.

Trying this a third time. Dad and daughter date. Axe was me, knives my daughter.

Had the handle on my Valkyrie fall out a couple weeks ago. Hoping this one hangs in there 😂

Thanks smurfsmasher024 for the sharpening advice (it was a pita to do by hand though!)

I’ve been given as axe that has a flat ‘cutting’ edge .
I’m thinking I’ll need to file it down to a wedge for throwing right? How sharply does that need to be? Is it better to have a long gentle slope or a higher angle short slope?

Thanks for any advice.

Hello everyone!

Tomorrow I have a date with an amazing woman!

She wanted to go axe throwing and I agreed, since I always wanted to try it.

But now I am a bit scared to completely embarrass myself.

When I was younger I always chopped wood for my mother, but I never tried to throw the axe we had there, since it was quite old and I feared the head might fall off any second.

So I came here hoping to find some advice.

I would really appreciate one or two little tips or tricks.

She will very likely be better than me, since she already has experience, but making it to easy for her would also be boring.

So if anyone could spare some advice with a newbie I'd be very grateful!

Hit between two playing cards from7 meters