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AXIS Flight School launches its first App!
Over the past 3 years, AXIS Flight School has been working with Good Goblin Games to develop a new kind of skydiving app. Featuring Woody, an animated and interactive figurine that helps demonstrate body-flight and canopy-piloting concepts. In addition, the app features many more useful tools for everyone from the casual jumper to instructors and competitors.
AXIS Skydiving
Skydiving Tutorials and Tools.
A great compendium of exercises, knowledge, visualizations, and tools for skydivers and tunnel flyers.
Meet Woody! Your interactive wooden dummy guide with comprehensive information using amazing skydiving and canopy animations for a broad spectrum of experience and skill levels. Great for novice jumpers who wish to learn more, and a fantastic tool for coaches who need visuals for their students.
Available in the iTunes App Store, and Google Play.
Features
● Education:
-Hi-res animations and photos of each exercise
-Easy-to-understand detailed descriptions
-Search by body-flight orientation or canopy piloting skills
● Calculators:
-Exit separation,
-Reserve Repack Cycle,
-Wing Loading,
-Canopy Size Orientation Guide
● Competition tools:
-Adjustable count down timer with audio cue,
-Pace, score and bust tracker
-Draw generator
-Performance analyzer
-Dive pools
If you are looking for more in depth knowledge, consider supporting us with an annual subscription. We regularly update adding new skydive content and features.
Tailors of Training – AXIS interview
AXIS Flight School would like to thank Annette O’Neil for writing the following article about the new AXIS Merits System.
Photo by Samantha Schwann
AXIS provides bespoke education for Smart Skydivers: Now with (Gorgeous) Merits!
Ask anyone who’s been in the sport for more than a couple of seasons: the times, they are a changin’. For the first 15 to 20 years of sport skydiving’s popular heyday, there wasn’t any doubt that the party lay at the heart of the matter. In the not-too-long-ago bad old days, your standard sport skydiver would go about chasing boogies all season long — and chase the sun to find even more skydiving parties when her/his own season ran out. Beer, tent cities and magic-carpet exits ruled the day
In recent years — as you may have noticed — the sport is sobering up. Today’s skydiver has a different goal to chase: skill development. Suddenly, it’s not enough to simply jump out of an airplane with your buddies; now, you’d better be using that jump to get — well — better. This is the age of the skills camp; of the training trip; of one-on-one coaching. People just want more. And can you blame ‘em?
Enter AXIS — one of skydiving education’s indisputably premium brands. Brianne Thompson and Niklas Daniel, AXIS’s owners and instructors, are a pair of highly decorated skydivers who founded AXIS as a boutique instruction operation. The intentionally-small operation has been based at Skydive Arizona since 2010. In that time, Nik and Brianne have managed to actually revolutionize how skydiving is coached.
How’d they do that? In essence, by… Continue reading on SkydiveMag.com
AXIS Foundations of Flight: Head Position
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Skydive Radio Photo of the Week Show #243!
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.
AXIS Foundations of Flight: Belly to Head-up transition
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AXIS Foundations of Flight: Exiting a 2-way Vertical Compressed
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