The Drop

News and Resources from AXIS Flight School

recent posts

about

AXIS Flight School offers structured, progressive training designed to help sport skydivers of all levels achieve their personal and competitive goals. Whether you’re looking to improve your canopy skills, master new freefall techniques in the tunnel and sky, or prepare for competition, our world-class coaches will guide you every step of the way.

Category: Articles

AXIS Foundations of Flight – 2-way Verticals

February 1, 2012

Welcome to February’s installment of AXIS Flight School‘s Foundations of Flight! This month we will be discussing how to do a two-way vertical transition while belly flying. A new feature we will be providing in future FOF editions, is the addition of a QR code. This square barcode can be photographed with any smart phone, thus allowing…
AXIS Foundations of Flight – Exiting a 2-way Compressed Accordion

January 5, 2012

Foundations of Flight has been moved outside of its own “department” and into Safety & Training! Check out the January 2012 edition of Parachutist.
AXIS Foundations of Flight – Toggle Stalls

December 10, 2011
AXIS Foundations of Flight – Level Changes While Belly Flying

December 10, 2011
AXIS Foundations of Flight – Belly Side Slide

December 10, 2011
AXIS Foundations of Flight – Barrel Roll

December 10, 2011
AXIS Foundations of Flight – Sole to Sole

December 8, 2011
2011 USPA Nationals Scores

December 7, 2011

Here are all the scores from the USPA Nationals, courtesy of 90Percent! (WebNews Wednesday, 30 November 2011 – Pages 19 – 39)
AXIS Foundations of Flight – Double Spock

October 30, 2011
Indian Military Update

October 9, 2011

“While other women break the glass ceiling, they smashed through it – dropping from a height of 8,000ft. Meet the first all-women team of skydivers of the Indian Air Force (IAF), which will make its official debut on Air Force Day on October 8 by jumping from an An-32 transport aircraft at the Hindon airbase…