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News and Resources from AXIS Flight School


Category: Body-flight

  • The AXIS Flight School hosted the ISSA World Cup Series Event of 2025 at Skydive Arizona has wrapped, following a full-throttle weekend of Speed Skydiving on December 13–14, 2025. Over the weekend, 14 competitors gave it everything they had, chasing one simple goal: fly as fast as humanly possible. 👉 Competitor Snapshot 👈11x male |…

  • Wind tunnel time improves balance, control, and safety for speed skydivers. Here’s why training slow helps you fly fast. Body-flight is balance in motion Body-flight, in all its forms, is a study in balance. By fine-tuning the drag forces around their centre of mass, a flyer can maintain control and maneuver efficiently through the relative…

  • Big news from France: AXIS Flight School co-founder Niklas Daniel has just published a two-page feature on Speed Skydiving in ParaMag, France’s premier skydiving magazine. This article, created in collaboration with ParaMag publisher Bruno Passe, marks a milestone. For the first time, Speed has been introduced in depth to French readers—bringing a fresh perspective on…

  • You love to play with blocks. Everybody does. And you know where to find ’em, too: the AXIS Flight School YouTube channel. Et voilá—here are more sweet, buildable blocks for you. The MFS 18-22 videos are now available for your watching (and team training) pleasure. But wait! There’s more The AXIS Draw Generator as been…

  • Who Says Solos Can’t Be Fun? The Challenge of Speed Skydiving ISSA.one

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  • The AXIS MFS dive pool images and videos have been updated. Blocks 6, 11, 14, 15, 16, and 17 have been replaced / added. Also, Random A has been updated. The new content is now availble on the AXIS Draw Generator. Videos courtesy of FliteShop / Taylor Buffington.

  • On April 20th, Brianne Thompson and Niklas Daniel of AXIS Flight School set out to break the Arizona State absolute record for greatest freefall speed (Female and General respectively). Skydive Arizona flew one of their twin otters to 17,650 ft AGL which gave the team extra working time to accelerate. The freefall performance lasted approximately…