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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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  • 2019 Arizona Airspeed Challenge

    This years Arizona Airspeed Challenge proved to be especially difficult as it unfortunately did not complete. The 88-way formation consisted of a combination of “donuts” and “compressed accordions”. Special thanks to Arizona Airspeed for hosting the event during the Skydive Arizona Turbine Madness Boogie.

  • Fly Smart. Train Hard.

    Fly Smart. Train Hard.

    Being competitors at heart, Niklas and Brianne do their best to improve on a daily basis. This applies not only to competitions, but also their business and life’s work – AXIS Flight School. AXIS has gone through an incredible online transformation, which could be called a “Cyber Grand Re-opening”. These changes have been taking place behind the…

  • Mixed Formation Skydiving Block Videos

    AXIS Flight School has created a YouTube playlist to help demonstrate how the new 2019 MFS blocks can be executed. This recourse is great for competitors learning the new formations, coaches who need a visual aide, and judges who can use the footage as a warm up in formation recognition. Special thanks to Nate Roth…

  • Santa is coming to town!

    David Robinson, dressed as Kris Kringle, spreading holiday cheer with his reindeer Andrew Velasquez over Skydive Arizona. Photo by NiklasDaniel.com

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight: One-armed canopy flight (aka “switch-blade”)

     

  • AZ X-FORCE 2018 season recap video

  • Skydive Radio Photo of the Week Show #233!

    I would like to thank Dave at Skydive Radio for making my image below their pic of the week! Skydive Radio is the world’s leading internet radio show dedicated to the sport of skydiving.  Weekly episodes include commentary, feature interviews with industry insiders, listener-contributed photos, and e-mails from an audience that spans the globe.

  • FOX 10 News Camera flying interview

    PICTURE PERFECT: Man takes pictures, 15,000 feet up in the air “Skydiving, as one can imagine, is dangerous enough, but try to imagine the added element of trying to capture the perfect picture, 12,000 feet up in the air. One photographer does exactly that, as a career. “As a kid, I’ve always been pretty active, always enjoyed extreme sports, whether it…

  • Using a skydiving ring-sight

    Published in Parachutist issues 686, DEC 2016

  • USPA Parachutist Cover December 2016

    EagleBear (Andre Gerner, Joseph Gerner and Nathan Roth) turn points on the way to taking the silver medal in open mixed formation skydiving at the USPA Nationals in Eloy, Arizona. Parachutist online