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JUL 2017

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inamarcellaevents.com 32 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.17 THE BIT A BIT TO DO On my second practice throw, I hit the bull's-eye. Zack Pennington, co- founder of Flying Axes, is so impressed that he insists I take a photo with my handiwork. I chalk it up to beginner's luck because most of my throws bounce off the target and reverberate into the cage's hard oak border, coming to a stop in front of me on the rubber mat. More times than not, Pennington has to pry his axe out of the pine target, which is nicked and scraped from previous throws and will need to be replaced soon. He instructs me to hold the axe — think hatchet, not Paul Bunyan — with both hands, left over right, to bring it behind my head, parallel with my skull. The goal is to release straight in front of me, for the axe to make a single full rotation. "Whether you're holding too tall, letting it go too early or too late — all of that factors in," says Pennington, who's in his early 30s. He uses an app on his phone to keep score and input our axe-throwing nicknames (ZAX and JEN) on the scoreboard, which hangs between paired targets. (Each of the eight cages

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