The first time I saw an axe throwing establishment for myself was on Agricola Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. While it seemed fitting enough for Canada—plaid shirts, lumberjack beards, toques, and all that—I wondered if indoor lobster fishing might be a more suitable corporate bonding activity for the east coast.
Not long before that, it was actually a friend who initially mentioned the nascent sport forming in Estonia. Axtonia is Estonia's first, and so far only, place where you can go for a drink (certainly not more than two) and throw axes (kirveviskamise). Might we call Axtonia a type of kirvesaal (“hall of axes”)?
(Read more: Estonian Life No. 40 2020 paber- and PDF/digi)
Written by Vincent Teetsov, Toronto