Following suit from the US and Canada, the sport of Axe Throwing is rapidly spreading across the UK with venues opening up in cities and towns across the country. One of which is Valhalla North Axe Throwing in County Durham who opened their doors in November 2019.
Kat & Carl opened the venue in 2019 running general sessions open to the public. Valhalla North now also has an established mixed league with 24 members who compete in regular in-house competitons.
Kat recently joined a group of women in the US called ‘AXEGIRLS’, led by Axel (Annelise Townsend) from the Agawam Axe House in Massachusetts, who feature on a weekly YouTube TV series. Axel says “I created AXEGIRLS as a way of promoting Women in the sport of Axe Throwing. I wanted the world to see these amazing women. There is no representation of JUST women in this sport, and I wanted to change that. I wanted to show women that there are women in this sport, that the women are amazing, and I wanted to encourage everyone to give it a try – through entertainment. Not just how great they are at axe throwing, but meeting them, learning about their lives, struggles, goals, etc.” The AXEGIRLS is now in season 3 and has women from the US, Canada and Kat in the UK.
At the start of August, Kat launched a women’s only league night (Valhalla North Valkyries). Within less than 24 hours, there were 15 women from ages 16-50 registered. The girls are currently practising for what will be the first official women only axe throwing league in the UK, with their first league season starting in October.
On 3rd October 2021 the Valkyries, plus women from across the country, will be competing in the ‘Burn Battle’ charity tournament. The event is sponsored by AXEGIRLS and is being run at multiple venues across the world including Canada & the US. It also falls on Mean Girls Day and has received support from Damien Franzese (Damian in Mean Girls).
Players are raising money via sponsorship and all proceeds from the day will be donated to Valhalla North’s chosen charity ‘Mind’.
Valhalla North are also looking for any businesses who would like to support via sharing the event, sponsoring or donating prizes.
This women only charity axe throwing tournament will be the first of its kind in the UK and Kat and the team are extremely excited to see it come to life and raise some money for such an amazing charity.