The Drop
News and Resources from AXIS Flight School
Category: Skydiving
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“The U.S. Team has a long, proud tradition of representing the United States in international parachuting competitions dating back to the 1950s. This year is especially exciting, as the team will compete in the 2012 FAI Mondial (all events) Championships at the magnificent skydiving venue in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. While making the U.S. Team…
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“Skydiving team Dallas Storm traveled to Eloy Arizona to train at Skydive Arizona. The team made a dozen jumps with coaching from Thomas Hughes (of Arizona Airspeed), and also completed 2.5 hours of wind tunnel training. Outside/Outside footage by Niklas Daniel”
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On May 6th, AXIS Flight School hosted a Canopy Flocking event and free seminars dedicated to educating jumpers on canopy flight at Skydive Arizona. The goal of the course was to expand on the awareness of each individual’s canopy knowledge, as well as canopy separation while in the pattern. The course welcomed jumpers from all skill and…
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After the picture was digitally altered by Para-Mag, the image below ended up on the cover of the 300th edition! Please click here to view the digital version. If you missed my previous CYPRES 2 Peace of Mind post, here is the video of the cover shot moment – Enjoy 🙂
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At AXIS Flight School we meet jumpers from all walks of life. Be it a Student who just received their A-License, the Weekend Warrior, and the Hard-Core Competitors. No matter what your experience level, each license has strict rules regarding proficiency and currency. Since we encounter question about retrains all the time, I thought it…
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“Arizona Arsenal has been a competitive 4-way Verical Formation Skydiving Team since the first test USPA Nationals in 2006 when we won the gold medal by 1 point! At this time VFS was called VRW, Vertical Relative Work. Since then Arsenal has maintained its status as a top tier medalling competitor winning gold and silver…
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Recently I was contacted by cheri sundae productions, who expressed interest in airing some of my canopy footage on the Travel Channel‘s “When Vacations Attack“. Even though the shot was my idea, I have to give credit to Brianne Thompson of AXIS Flight School for making it happen 🙂 Recorded by two back-to-back GoPro‘s (see right), the individual footage was…
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I received a little love from iLoveSkydiving.org, who reposted a malfunction video I posted on YouTube last year. Thanks guys and keep up the good work!!! “This has to be one of the longest parachute malfunctions I’ve ever seen. In fact, I made a sandwich halfway through it. Long story short, Niklas Daniel of AXIS Flight…
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