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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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  • XF Dive Pool and Rules Updated

    On January 4th, 2015 AXIS Flight School created an experimental dive pool for what was then referred to as XRW (Extreme Relative Work). This is a still developing discipline where canopy and wing-suit pilots build formations. In essence, an XRW skydive is a dissimilar formation flight. The first dive pool developed by AXIS was called XF. The…

  • OEW in the Eloy Enterprise

    Disabled veterans learn how to skydive By MARIA VASQUEZ, Staff Writer Feb 7, 2020   ELOY — Two paraplegic military veterans have taken up a new hobby and recently began their journey of obtaining their skydiving license. Ryan Newell and Chris Wolff traveled to SkyVenture Arizona from Kansas and Texas for their first training session…

  • OEW January Tunnel video recap

  • Behind the AXIS Skydiving APP

    Over the past three years, AXIS Flight School has been involved in a joint venture with Good Goblin Games to develop a new kind of skydiving app – AXIS Skydiving, available on Google play and on the Apple App Store. The goal was to create an educational tool/reference manual that covers body-flight and canopy-piloting concepts in a fun and…

  • OEW tunnel intensive January 2020

    Chris Wolff and Ryan Newell just completed flying with AXIS Flight School at the Skyventure AZ tunnel. Having flown 3.5 hours each over the course of four days, Chris and Ryan are part of the January 2020 Operation Enduring Warrior Skydive class. The goal of this training camp was to best prepare Chris and Ryan for…

  • 60000 and counting

    AXIS Flight School instructor Brianne Thompson is featured on the latest Performance Designs advertisement flying the PDR.  

  • AXIS Flight School launches its first App!

    Over the past 3 years, AXIS Flight School has been working with Good Goblin Games to develop a new kind of skydiving app. Featuring Woody, an animated and interactive figurine that helps demonstrate body-flight and canopy-piloting concepts. In addition, the app features many more useful tools for everyone from the casual jumper to instructors and…

  • Happy Halloween from AXIS Flight School

  • Double Bronze for Brianne Thompson

    In addition to competing in 4-way VFS with Arizona X-Force during the 22nd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving, Brianne Thompson also participated in 4-way FS female with team Phoenix XP. Having medaled in both events, Brianne is the first American and third person in skydiving history to medal in FS and VFS at the…

  • 2019 World Cup Recap

    2019 World Cup Recap

    Bronze Medal for Arizona X-Force in 4-Way VFS! The 22nd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving was held at Skydive Arizona in Eloy from October 7th to the 12th. Arizona X-Force attended after having just completed the USPA Nationals in mid September. The competition started out strong, with the top three teams being neck and…