Category Archives: iFLY

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

Posted on by
Reply

imagehandlerwithresize.ashximg_5880The 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 Collective Pitch.

team at vb

Arizona X-Force by Ray Kubiak.

 

Arizona X-Force had a strong showing with two new personal bests: Highest indoor average of 26.1 points over 10 rounds, and single highest scoring round of 46 points in 35 seconds. Please click here to view the competition videos.

 

scores

Results by intimescoring

statistics

Statistics by intimescoring

The team’s next major competitions will be the USPA Skydiving Nationals in Reaford, NC at the end of September, immediately followed by the FAI Skydiving World Cup in Eloy, AZ in early October, which the team qualified for at last year’s nationals.

The USIS draws were powered by the AXIS Flight School Draw Generator, which was used for all disciplines (Vertical Formation Skydiving and Dynamic).

draw powered by axis

USIS 4-way VFS Open draw powered by AXIS Flight School Draw Generator

Day 2 Live feed recording / rounds 1-8 (VFS starting at 11:00:00)

Day 3 Live feed recording / rounds 9 and 10 (VFS starting at 2:50:00)

AXIS collaborates with IBA to produce new online instructional videos

Posted on by
Reply

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.

 

2017 iFly Virginia Beach competition

Posted on by
Reply

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.

4-way FS: Competing under the name “X-Defy”, which is a combination of two team names: X-Force and Defiance, Nik and Brianne competed with local Arizona skydivers Cris and Joe Howard.

18118963_1368762189860138_35918305711444487_n.jpg     17990821_1368102203259470_3354309909127132643_n.jpg

With only 3 hours of tunnel training over the past few weeks, the team finishing the meet with a 18.3 average over 10 rounds, placing 3rd.

18118855_1522910857751007_8328705440599972510_n.jpg

iFLY VB 2017 4-way FS open podium

4-way FS open scores:

VB Belly scores.png

17990906_1367386066664417_6862929016996842220_n.jpg4-way VFS: Arizona X-FORCE managed to increase its competition average considerably since the XP Championships, just two month earlier – jumping from 21.3 to 23.7.

Unfortunately the team took a severe blow in round 3, loosing its 2nd place standing and dropping to 4th, which it could not recover from. In the end, Arizona X-FORCE lost the podium by 1 point to team Arsenal.

18057027_1368813059855051_6534761563739751006_n.jpg    18057167_1368926566510367_2564016461362102434_n.jpg

4-way VFS open scores:

VB VFS scores.png

VFS Rounds 1 and 2

FS rounds 5 -10, VFS round 3 starts at 1:14:55

 

 

Awards

Congratulations to all the teams that took part in this awesome event, and thanks to all of our sponsors for their continued support! Our next two major competitions will be the Skydiving World Cup (7-13 Aug) in Saarlouis Germany, followed by the USPA Nationals (20-23 Sep) at Skydive Perris California.