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A Thank You to an Anonymous Supporter
On behalf of the U.S. Speed Skydiving community, we want to extend our deepest and most sincere thanks to the anonymous donor who has generously sponsored our team’s registration fees for the World Championships. This was an incredible surprise, and it is difficult to fully express what this gesture means to those of us who…
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576 km/h: A Bigger Number Than It Looks
When the conversation turns to how fast a human can fall, two names reliably come up first: Felix Baumgartner and Alan Eustace. Their high-altitude jumps became the public yardstick for what a human body can manage when it’s falling through atmosphere. Baumgartner’s 2012 Red Bull Stratos jump is the one everybody knows. He exited at…
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The AXIS B-License Weekend Intensive: an insider look
So many people ask us what happens at a USPA B-license course (probably because we’ve run the best one since forever ::dusts shoulder off::) We decided to do one better than just answer the question. We called on a filmmaker friend and put together a video sneak peek behind the scenes, answering the most common…
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PSA! Speed Skydiving World Championship – Bulletin #1
The FAI World Championships are set to take place this fall right here at Skydive Arizona. It’s time to get ready: to train, to plan—or even to sponsor and spectate! …And, if you’re a speeder, there’s even more for you. The official competitor bulletin for the 6th FAI World Skydiving Championships of Speed Skydiving is…
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Keep Those Eyes on the Prize
Just published in the June issue of Skydive the Mag: Using visual references to learn faster and fly safer. “Pretty geometry is only the outcome. Shared energy is the cause.” 🤜 . . . 🎤 Enjoy!
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Heads up! AXIS Dive Pool updates
Quick PSA for the FS community… We went through every FS dive pool image in the AXIS Draw Generator and made a round of important corrections. If you train using our draws, this one’s worth a look before your next set of rounds. You’ll find the updated images in the Draw Generator, same place they’ve…
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June Parachutist feat. AXIS Flight School 🙌
We were pretty delighted to open June’s issue of Parachutist Magazine and see AXIS all over it. ✨ In case you missed it, here’s what’s in there: a feature on our three (no-joke fantastic) new courses, Nik mugging at David Cherry’s camera over Luke AFB on a demo jump at Luke Days 2026…and. Nik’s writeup…
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Speed Nationals 2027 Has a Home—Here’s What Speeders Need to Know
The 2027 USPA National Skydiving Championships finally have a complete venue map! For speed skydivers, the news is worth circling on the calendar: WNYSkydiving in Albion, New York will host both Speed Skydiving and Wingsuit Nationals next year. The rest of the meet—formation skydiving, artistic events, accuracy, canopy formation, and canopy piloting—will go forward at…
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The May flowers April showers brought (+ Brianne)
In case you missed it last September, this feels like an apropos time to reshare the Skydive The Mag cover Nik shot: Brianne (of course), flying past a dewy dandelion at SDAZ. Also check out some of AXIS’s other contributions to that September 2025 issue of the magazine: Page 8 – ‘Speeding Towards the Future’…
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2026 ISSA Event #2, Eloy – Recap
Over the weekend of April 25-26, AXIS Flight School hosted the second 2026 ISSA Event of the year at Skydive Arizona. Competitors from three countries attended—the USA, Australia, and China. There are eight ISSA Events in total this year, and this meet brought together several world-level veterans alongside two newcomers who had never competed in…
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Freshly published: Principles of Fitness For Flying
🪂 What actually separates good bodyflight athletes from great ones? It’s not how many jumps you have. It’s not raw talent. It’s whether you understand the instrument you’re flying—your own body. How you train that body is foundational. We set out to address the best protocols to do just that, and we covered them for…
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Featured Photo: Locked In
Nik jumped with the French canopy team during their training out here at SDAZ. The result? Some none-too-shabby snaps of the Frenchmen getting seriously silly in the sky.
