Times like this, I hate that I envision everything as I read it. 
Envision better, and you'll realise that with a long handle, and not too long arms, I'll never be able to do what I described.
It will be an ultimate failure, and I will fall down next to the swung heavy axe, in one piece, only taken down by weight and swinging speed, and maybe one scratch from falling on the floor.
Nothing else would happen than some dramatic show-off ending in harmless failure.
(Unless bystanders stood too close, of course)
