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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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  • PSA! Speed Skydiving World Championship – Bulletin #1

    The FAI World Championships are set to take place this fall right here at Skydive Arizona. It’s time to get ready: to train, to plan—or even to sponsor and spectate! …And, if you’re a speeder, there’s even more for you. The official competitor bulletin for the 6th FAI World Skydiving Championships of Speed Skydiving is…

  • Keep Those Eyes on the Prize

    Just published in the June issue of Skydive the Mag: Using visual references to learn faster and fly safer. “Pretty geometry is only the outcome. Shared energy is the cause.” 🤜 . . . 🎤 Enjoy!

  • Heads up! AXIS Dive Pool updates

    Quick PSA for the FS community… We went through every FS dive pool image in the AXIS Draw Generator and made a round of important corrections. If you train using our draws, this one’s worth a look before your next set of rounds. You’ll find the updated images in the Draw Generator, same place they’ve…

  • June Parachutist feat. AXIS Flight School 🙌

    We were pretty delighted to open June’s issue of Parachutist Magazine and see AXIS all over it. ✨ In case you missed it, here’s what’s in there: a feature on our three (no-joke fantastic) new courses, Nik mugging at David Cherry’s camera over Luke AFB on a demo jump at Luke Days 2026…and. Nik’s writeup…

  • Speed Nationals 2027 Has a Home—Here’s What Speeders Need to Know

    The 2027 USPA National Skydiving Championships finally have a complete venue map! For speed skydivers, the news is worth circling on the calendar: WNYSkydiving in Albion, New York will host both Speed Skydiving and Wingsuit Nationals next year. The rest of the meet—formation skydiving, artistic events, accuracy, canopy formation, and canopy piloting—will go forward at…

  • The May flowers April showers brought (+ Brianne)

    In case you missed it last September, this feels like an apropos time to reshare the Skydive The Mag cover Nik shot: Brianne (of course), flying past a dewy dandelion at SDAZ. Also check out some of AXIS’s other contributions to that September 2025 issue of the magazine: Page 8 – ‘Speeding Towards the Future’…

  • 2026 ISSA Event #2, Eloy – Recap

    Over the weekend of April 25-26, AXIS Flight School hosted the second 2026 ISSA Event of the year at Skydive Arizona. Competitors from three countries attended—the USA, Australia, and China. There are eight ISSA Events in total this year, and this meet brought together several world-level veterans alongside two newcomers who had never competed in…

  • Freshly published: Principles of Fitness For Flying

    🪂 What actually separates good bodyflight athletes from great ones? It’s not how many jumps you have. It’s not raw talent. It’s whether you understand the instrument you’re flying—your own body. How you train that body is foundational. We set out to address the best protocols to do just that, and we covered them for…

  • Featured Photo: Locked In

  • Foundations of Flight: Approach With Confidence – Part 6, Final Approach and Landing

    In this installment, we help you to stay calm, navigate a couple of tricky cognitive traps, and—quite literally—use your head. Enjoy! To view past issues of the series, click on the links below: Part 1: Beyond Imprinting Part 2: Holding Area Part 3: Landing Pattern Part 4: Pattern Transformations Part 5: Pattern Adjustments