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Hooked by the Axe Factor
Football may be Singapore's No. 1 sport but there are other sporting love affairs around the island. The Straits Times seeks out less popular games and discovers that a country's passion for sport, even in this time of Covid-19, burns brightly. This fortnightly series will take a break and resume in September.
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Axe Factor founder Samuel Tey with the tools of the sport, which involves participants hurling axes at a target board some 4m away.
ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
When he came across a video of Aquaman star Jason Momoa swigging beer and hurling an axe at a target board in late 2017, a light bulb went off in Samuel Tey's head.
Within 12 months, he had founded Axe Factor, Singapore's first and only axe-throwing range.
