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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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  • OEW tunnel intensive January 2020

    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…

  • Photography website update

    Nik’s photography website recently got an overhaul. It now features portfolios of various topics and new content. Enjoy!

  • 60000 and counting

    AXIS Flight School instructor Brianne Thompson is featured on the latest Performance Designs advertisement flying the PDR.  

  • 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…

  • Double Bronze for Brianne Thompson

    In addition to competing in 4-way VFS with Arizona X-Force during the 22nd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving, Brianne Thompson also participated in 4-way FS female with team Phoenix XP. Having medaled in both events, Brianne is the first American and third person in skydiving history to medal in FS and VFS at the…

  • 2019 World Cup Recap

    2019 World Cup Recap

    Bronze Medal for Arizona X-Force in 4-Way VFS! The 22nd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving was held at Skydive Arizona in Eloy from October 7th to the 12th. Arizona X-Force attended after having just completed the USPA Nationals in mid September. The competition started out strong, with the top three teams being neck and…

  • 4-way VFS Block videos are online!

    AXIS Flight School has uploaded sample videos of all 22 blocks from the Vertical Formation Skydiving dive pool to its YouTube Channel. You can check out the full playlist here. Special thanks to Arizona X-Force videographer Nathan Roth for the footage.

  • 2019 USPA Nationals Recap

    Silver Medal for X-Force in 4-Way VFS Open! During the 2019 USPA National Skydiving Championships Arizona X-Force came in second in the 4-Way VFS Open event. The vertical formation skydiving event completed all 10 scheduled rounds, with four teams in each of the open and advanced divisions. One team, “Why Not”, competed in the intermediate…

  • 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. 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…

  • 4-way FS block videos updated

    Earlier this year the IPC made some changes to the 4-way FS dive pool, replacing blocks 1 and 13 with new versions. Special thanks to Arizona Airspeed‘s camera flyer David French for sharing the team’s training footage. Block 1 Block 13 If you wish to see all the blocks of the 4-way FS open dive pool, check…