#throwing axes

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was throwing axes in a bowling alley parking lot and Danny DeVito kept throwing eggs at me telling me if I didn't pick up the pace I would join him as a trash man in the trash man empire.

[wholesaleblades]

[swan2swan]

I have never played TLOU in my life why am I having dreams about it

[chaotic-pythoness]

No one ever said I was good and backwards axe throwing!

[richard1647]

THROWING AXES | Log Jammers

[trashcanniballecter]

Ya know I have surprisingly good aim for someone who can't see clearly past a foot and a half

[inasoutherlydirection]

When you’re going axe throwing so you try to take a picture that makes you look like a badass and you just end up looking constipated... SO much fun at lumberjaxe today. I’m lucky enough that my team said they wanted to do this as a team outing and y’all, we had so much fun!

[howtofightwrite]

Something I've always wondered: how practical are throwing knives/axes in a fight? What's to prevent them from spinning too fast/too slow and hitting with the non-bladed end?

Throwing axes are fairly practical. At least, they saw a fair amount of use historically. They’re light weight, and easy enough to train on, but still retain enough mass to do considerable damage on impact.

Throwing knives are more of a novelty trick. They lack the mass of an axe, and are a lot more finicky to connect with. You can throw them, but it’s not a great option.

Spin speed is controlled by the thrower. Really, this one is that simple. It’s a skill they need to practice. As I said earlier, knife throwing is trickier. It’s very easy to screw that up and accidentally connect with the hilt, if you don’t know what you’re doing. In contrast, axe throwing is fairly easy. On contact, the mass of the head will do most of the work for you, so even botching a throw so the haft connects first will usually result in a hit (somewhere). Ideally, with an axe, you want the weapon to make one complete rotation in air, and connect head first.

-Starke

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