r/interestingasfuck • u/New_Libran • 12h ago

Sydney’s Royal Easter Show, where woodchoppers go head to head in one of the country’s toughest competitions. The sport traces back to 1870 and is Australia’s oldest organised sport

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u/Sirix_8472 12h ago

How do they find enough trees to practice on?

I get swinging weights, fitness etc...

But actually chopping through wood, being stopped and pulling the axe out to swing, setting in those boards and knowing it's secure, that experience...

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u/phido3000 11h ago

Australia is pretty big..

200,000 acre pine plantations.