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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.

Category: Blue Skies Magazine

  • 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…

  • Blue Skies Magazine #94 Featured Photo

    I would like to thank Kolla, Lara & Pierre from  Blue Skies Magazine for making one of my recent images their featured photo!   BTW, if you don’t have a subscription to Blue Skies Magazine, what are you waiting for?  Click here to subscribe!

  • Choppin’ with style

    Another cutaway photo by Mark Kirschenbaum; this time as the featured photo in Blue Skies Magazine! i82: Oct 2016

  • Face Off: AXIS vs. Grillets

    Published in Blue Skies Magazine Issue #79: July 2016 To learn more about Vector Camps, and to sign up for the upcoming CSC event, please click here.

  • VectorCamps: Premier Skills Camps in the U.S.

    Sign up here! Building on the success of the famous Vector Festival event in Europe, UPT has spearheaded a group of manufacturers, coming together to deliver a skills camp experience like no other. The goal is to work with top coaches and provide camp participants with a safe and personalized way to further their skills. Number of slots available per…

  • Camera-flying Essentials

    I would like to thank Blue Skies Magazine for including some articles I wrote about camera flying in their “Get Current” column. This is the magazine’s annual spring refresher series, with the idea of addressing safety concerns so jumpers can come back from winter hibernation safely. I have created links to the three part series below which…

  • Skydive Arizona Steam Punk Ad

  • Jesse Murphree – Accelerated Freefall Training

  • Deja Vu?

    Article published in Blue Skies Magazine Issues #55 June/July 2014. See video of Joe’s progress on the Blue Skies Magazine website.

  • Jumping With Jesse

    “On a vehicle patrol in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on December 27th, 2007, SPC Jesse Murphree was ambushed in an IED attack. Jesse was part of the 173rd Airborne Combat Brigade stationed out of Vicenza, Italy. The IED attack resulted in the total destruction of the military vehicle he was traveling in. Jesse suffered severe injuries…