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Hi, my name is Jesse Rood and I have the world record for the farthest distance axe throw
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The first time I threw an axe was at the Lutheran Valley retreat camp
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I found that I was pretty good at throwing the axe and it was very repeatable for me
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When I was back in Nebraska college, I worked at an axe bar and really developed a skill for trick
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shots and accuracy and knew at that point that I could undertake this record attempt
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So for this attempt, I knew I was going to be going for a lot further than my original record of 90 feet
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This time I was able to do it with less people watching, which took a lot of the nerves and pressure
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out of it. We started by warming up from about 20 feet. And then when it came time to try from 143 feet
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I threw a few axes and missed and then stuck the final axe at 143 feet
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And my favorite thing about ax-starring is getting outside into the fresh air
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And nothing feels better than warming up and throwing a lot of axes and then finally sticking from
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a pretty far distance. I feel accomplished to have hit my personal record of 143 feet
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And I hope someone else challenges me in the future so that I can continue to push myself
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when it comes to distance for accident
