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Learn Axe Throwing Safety!
8/31/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
While it may not be an Olympic sport...
While it may not be an Olympic sport, axe throwing is a growing activity for social gatherings and at breweries! Learn some safety tips from Ray at Blacklist Brewing Co.!
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The Slice is a local public television program presented by PBS North
The Slice
Learn Axe Throwing Safety!
8/31/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
While it may not be an Olympic sport, axe throwing is a growing activity for social gatherings and at breweries! Learn some safety tips from Ray at Blacklist Brewing Co.!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAs you get used to throwing.
Obviously not every single one is going to stick so some tumble.
They fall, they roll.
That's how we have woodchips.
The base, the target that does help dead in the fall, the ax.
This is not a game of strength.
How hard can I throw?
How fast can I go?
The harder you throw, the less it rotates is just going to get frustrating.
So if you do that, a lot of times will either over rotator, under rotate guys might hit the head and might hit the handle.
It'll tumble and fall and roll.
In the four years that I've been managing this, I've not had a head or a handle on past this line.
So all I ask is that you don't enter the lane until the act is done moving.
Don't try to stop with your feet.
Don't catch it with your hands.
Don't lay down in front of it.
Don't put your mouth.
You're going to start with your left foot forward.
The reason you start with your left foot forward, it's going to keep your shoulders squared.
The target is going to allow you to follow through.
Follow through is the number one tip I will give everybody for strength.
Actually be nice and low in your right hand or dominant hand.
Either way, nice and holding the handle.
Usually like I'm right about here.
Here's the second tip I'll give.
Everybody is making sure you use your entire armpits or the ax.
So another common mistake that I see is that people tend to want to just push it with their wrists and their elbow.
That's just going to rotate the ax too much and you're going to hit in the head or it's not going to stick at all.
So from here, you're going to go all the way back from here are going to go straight over, top, reach, follow all the way through.
I like almost like jazz hands.
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