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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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  • Niklas Daniel wins the 10th Annual Freefly Money Meet 2012

    Skydive Arizona‘s Freefly Money Meet is an annual competition that has been organized by Amy Chmelecki for the past 10 years! How it works: In each of five rounds you will be randomly matched with a different partner of similar flying ability. Your partner in each round will be competing against you on other teams during the other…

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight – Sit-Fly Exits

    Please click here to view this article on the USPA’s Parachutist website.

  • Just another day at the office

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight – Kiting

  • True Grit

    Inspired by the “True Grit” movie poster, the new Skydive Arizona Easter Boogie ad features Brianne Thompson, Nick Grillet, and myself. All Photos by Craig “9-Toes” Amrine.  

  • Right This Minute Valentines Skydiving Skype Interview

    Valentine’s Day rolls around each year and that means it’s time for the annual Valentine’s Skydiving Meet over Eloy, Arizona. RTM interviewed me over Skype to find out more about the event. To check it out, please follow this link: Right This Minute Valentines Meet Coverage  “Right This Minute (RTM) is a daily, news and information program…

  • Testing New Canon Lenses

    Thanks to Cameron, one of my skydiving students, I was able to make some test jumps on a couple of new Canon lenses that he let me borrow: Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye and Canon Super Wide Angle EF 14mm f/2.8L. Let me just start by saying that both of these lenses are fantastic. Even though they…

  • NEW UPT AD!

    Check out the awesome upcoming UPT ad. I captured this shot of Alex Bittner and his girlfriend Jessica Spreng (Team Carolina Ragamuffins) during the 2011 USPA Nationals in Eloy, Arizona. Thanks for the great edit Seth!

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight – 2-way Verticals

    Welcome to February’s installment of AXIS Flight School‘s Foundations of Flight! This month we will be discussing how to do a two-way vertical transition while belly flying. A new feature we will be providing in future FOF editions, is the addition of a QR code. This square barcode can be photographed with any smart phone, thus allowing…

  • 1st SIS event held at Skydive Arizona Jan 27th-29th 2012

    Sisters in Skydiving is the U.S. Parachute Association‘s female mentorship program. SIS invites experienced women skydivers to sign up to act as mentors to student and novice female jumpers. By giving new women jumpers experienced female role models to help guide and support them, SIS is be able to increase retention of female students, adding depth and…