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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.

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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…

  • 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’…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Featured Photo: Locked In

  • Foundations of Flight: Approach With Confidence – Part 6, Final Approach and Landing

    In this installment, we help you to stay calm, navigate a couple of tricky cognitive traps, and—quite literally—use your head. Enjoy! To view past issues of the series, click on the links below: Part 1: Beyond Imprinting Part 2: Holding Area Part 3: Landing Pattern Part 4: Pattern Transformations Part 5: Pattern Adjustments

  • …aaaand we’re on IG now.

    We launched our Instagram account this month—yes! one of those! We’ve held off on spinning one up for a long time, as you know. Why? Well: we’re busy competing, instructing and coaching, and we’ve chosen to spend lots of time and effort making the longer-form content on your YouTube channel amazing. With that said: it’s…

  • Foundations of Flight: Approaching With Confidence – Part 5, Pattern Adjustments

    In this installment, we help you to develop your gut instincts to the point you can trust them. Enjoy! To view past issues of the series, click on the links below: Part 1: Beyond Imprinting Part 2: Holding Area Part 3: Landing Pattern Part 4: Pattern Transformations

  • Five-Minute Call: High-Noon Shadow

    True story: One of the best perks of this work is the opportunity to create the conditions for this kind of grin. Advait, we’re cheering for you!

  • Throwback: The Day We Dropped a Bowling Ball Out of a Plane Over Moab

    We’ve had a pretty big YouTube channel for a pretty long time, but there are certain videos that never stop finding new eyeballs. This is one of ’em. If your own eyeballs haven’t found it yet, we hope you like it. Right?! Here’s the the full backstory. The Setup It’s 2011. Prince William marries Kate…