That might be your nightmare vision when you learn about Social Axe Throwing, Salt Lake City’s contribution to a rapidly growing trend in indoor group recreation. But its founders — who already have a location in Ogden — swear that no one has lost any blood.
Otherwise, it’s just like it sounds — a bunch of people get together in a room and toss sharp axes at wooden targets for the sheer thrill of it. Kind of like bowling, only with potentially deadly airborne objects.
“Because axes are awesome,” Floyd says. “It’s like darts on steroids. There’s no way to explain how cool it is to take a footlong ax and stick it in a bull’s-eye.