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Category: Skydive Arizona

  • The goal of any warm up is to prepare ourselves physically and mentally for our upcoming activities. Therefore, we need activity-specific functional stretching exercises that utilize sport specific movements. To implement these, get to the DZ early so you have enough time to warm up. After getting settled and checking all your equipment, we recommend…

  • A potent combination of yummy material and fresh art work. These super-thin, soft, long-sleeve tri-blend shirts are available now at Square2. Snag yours now while supplies last! Color choices include: – True royal tri-blend with black ink, – Solid black tri-blend with silver ink, – Grey tri-blend with black ink, and – Charcoal tri-blend with silver ink.  

  • 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.

  • Brianne Thompson discusses cloud clearance regulations for skydiving operations.

  • Location: Skyventure Arizona

  • On January 4th, 2015 AXIS Flight School created an experimental dive pool for what was then referred to as XRW (Extreme Relative Work). This is a still developing discipline where canopy and wing-suit pilots build formations. In essence, an XRW skydive is a dissimilar formation flight. The first dive pool developed by AXIS was called XF. The…

  • Disabled veterans learn how to skydive By MARIA VASQUEZ, Staff Writer Feb 7, 2020   ELOY — Two paraplegic military veterans have taken up a new hobby and recently began their journey of obtaining their skydiving license. Ryan Newell and Chris Wolff traveled to SkyVenture Arizona from Kansas and Texas for their first training session…

  • Chris Wolff and Ryan Newell just completed flying with AXIS Flight School at the Skyventure AZ tunnel. Having flown 3.5 hours each over the course of four days, Chris and Ryan are part of the January 2020 Operation Enduring Warrior Skydive class. The goal of this training camp was to best prepare Chris and Ryan for…