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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: IBA

  • To Go (Unbelievably) Fast, Slow Down

    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…

  • AXIS Decennial at Skydive AZ!

    November 2020 marks AXIS Flight School‘s 10 year anniversary at Skydive Arizona! In celebration of our ‘tin anniversary‘, we reflect on some of our favorite highlights and exploits over the past decade and give thanks to our Students, Sponsors, Team Mates, and Skydive Arizona. Without you, we would not be living the dream. We also want…

  • 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…

  • AZ X-Force takes 3rd at 2019 USIS Nationals!

    The 2019 US Indoor Skydiving Open National Championships were held at iFly Virginia Beach on January 11th – 13th. Arizona X-Force attended its first indoor competition with its current line up established early last year. Some of the same teams competed at last year’s USPA Skydiving Nationals: SDC Core, Army Golden Knights, SDMW Chemtrails, and…

  • AZ X-FORCE 2018 season recap video

  • AXIS collaborates with IBA to produce new online instructional videos

    AXIS Flight School is excited to announce the release of a new line of online instructional videos. These 19 videos cover the entry levels of the International Body Flight Association‘s flight progression, which can be located on the IBA’s Skills page. Niklas Daniel and Brianne Thompson demonstrate the various body-flight maneuvers at the iFly Austin wind tunnel.…

  • The AXIS Flight School Draw Generator 3.5 is online!

    Created for competitors by competitors, the AXIS Flight School draw generator is already being utilized by the world’s top competitors and coaches. It is free to use by anyone, no sign up required, and has proven to be a great tool for competitors who wish to create a quick random draw for training purposes, or…

  • 2017 iFly Virginia Beach competition

    On April 22-23rd, iFLY Virginia Beach hosted the first meet of the 2017 IBA series. This competition acted as the US Team Qualifier for the World Championships in Montreal in October. AXIS Flight School‘s Brianne Thompson and Niklas Daniel took part in the event, competing in both the 4-way FS and 4-way VFS categories in the open class.…

  • Battle of the Blades at iFly Seattle

    On December 8-9, AXIS Flight School and Arizona X-Force attended the indoor skydiving competition “Battle of the Blades” at iFly Seattle, Washington.   This was the the 3rd and final stop of the 2016 IBA (international body flight association) competition tour. The event was streamed live online where anyone could watch the athletes compete in their…