Who’d Have Thought Axe Throwing Would Be So Much Fun?!

Carolyn Cordon
2 min readOct 13, 2024

Not me, but even though I was the absolute worst at it, I enjoyed myself immensely!

Photo by Jason Abdilla on Unsplash
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash

Last night is when this xe wielding adventure happened, as a celebration in honour of our son’s 31st birthday, with him and his wife and their friends there as well, all ready to enjoy ourselves (and throw axes too)!

I’d never done anything with axes before really, and boy did it show! My upper body strength is quite lacking as well, and while I did throw axes when it was my turn at the beginning of the axecitement of the evening, one of the people there took pity on my, and took me off for some one on one training.

I was glad for the tuition and while it didn’t actually result in any great throws, I did manage to actually hit the target with the pointy end of the axe! The throw wasn’t with sufficient strength to actually dig in deep enough to stay there, but so be it, with some building up of my strength, and training in throwing an axe and hitting the target, I’m going to make a far better show of it next time!

For this purpose, I’ve located a tool similarly shaped to an axe, but lighter to practice with, and with the…

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Carolyn Cordon
Carolyn Cordon

Written by Carolyn Cordon

Writer & Presenter — Poetry, prose, blogging, editor Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. Words are my tools, I use them well!

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