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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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  • AXIS summer fun

    AXIS Flight School instructors Brianne and Nik cooling off in style at Skydive Arizona.

  • Arizona X-FORCE on local newspaper cover

    The Eloy Enterprise – words by Tanner Clinch, photo courtesy of Kevin Mitchell 4-way VFS Team Arizona X-Force exits the Dentri (formation M of the IPC dive pool) over Skydive Arizona.    As the clock struck noon on a recent Sunday, the four-man vertical formation skydiving team at Skydive Arizona was 10 minutes from taking off…

  • VectorCamps: Premier Skills Camps in the U.S.

    Sign up here! Building on the success of the famous Vector Festival event in Europe, UPT has spearheaded a group of manufacturers, coming together to deliver a skills camp experience like no other. The goal is to work with top coaches and provide camp participants with a safe and personalized way to further their skills. Number of slots available per…

  • Luke & Greg

    Luke and Greg visited AXIS Flight School at the end of March 2016. The purpose of their visit was to be introduced to 2-way MFS (mixed formation skydiving) in a formally coached setting. During their week and a half long stay, the duo performed 28 training jumps and 10 hours of coached tunnel time, which…

  • Playing with Fire: Valkyrie Photoshoot with Brianne Thompson

    Originally posted by Performance Designs on May 3rd, 2016 “For the one year anniversary of launching the Valkyrie, we wanted to create a continuation of the original Valkyrie Ad (see below) first released early last year. Sticking with the same theme, we aimed to showcase a strong female figure as the personification of the Valkyrie. Brianne Thompson of AXIS Flight…

  • The greatest and best camera helmet in the world

    Recently I put together a series of articles that cover many different aspects of camera flying that were published by Blue Skies Magazine. After several inquires, I wanted to follow up with what my current camera helmet actually looks like. Over the past decade I have experimented with many different helmets, cameras, mounts, and accessories. Given that…

  • The Power of Mentorship—Operation Enduring Warrior Skydive Continues Its Mission

    Posted on 03. May, 2016 by Parachutist online. Words by MURV, Photos by NiklasDaniel.com. The Operation Enduring Warrior Skydive program began in 2013 (it was then called Operation X-Wing) to facilitate initial skydiving training for combat-wounded veterans. Since then, nine students have earned their A licenses through the program. But just like other recently A-licensed…

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight: Climbing onto the camera step

     

  • SDAZ 2016 Wingsuit Rally

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  • Camera-flying Essentials

    I would like to thank Blue Skies Magazine for including some articles I wrote about camera flying in their “Get Current” column. This is the magazine’s annual spring refresher series, with the idea of addressing safety concerns so jumpers can come back from winter hibernation safely. I have created links to the three part series below which…