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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.

Category: Swooping / Canopy Piloting

  • AXIS Flight School on Jeopardy!

    On May 21st, 2014 the game show Jeopardy! added the category “Skydiving” to their board. The contestants start addressing the topic around seven and a half minutes into the show. Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins on the May 21, 2014 episode of Jeopardy! 05/21/2014 All content © 2014 Jeopardy Productions, Inc, © 2014 Sony Pictures Digital…

  • AXIS Foundations of Flight – The Accuracy Trick

  • XRW Night Jumps at Skydive Arizona

    “This photo is a bit cryptic, but when you are flying a tiny little high performance canopy right along a really-damn-big wingsuit, in the dark, a few thousand feet above a bunch of thorny, prickly things, your attention might not be completely on the camera work. Nik Daniel (canopy pilot) and Alex Swindle (wingsuiter) completed the…

  • Blue Skies Magazine Cover – December 2013!

    I would like to thank Blue Skies Magazine for utilizing one of my XRW photographs for the December 2013 cover spot. It depicts local Eloy wing-suiter Alex Swindle and myself completing a surf dock over Skydive Arizona. The photo was taken with a GoPro Hero 3 mounted to an extension pole set on time lapse mode (One photo per second).

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  • AXIS Foundations of Flight – Properly Applying Front-riser Input

     

  • 90Percent Cover – November 2013!

    I would like to thank 90Percent (Italian Skydiving Magazine) for utilizing one of my XRW photographs for the November WebNews 2013 cover spot. It depicts local Eloy wing-suiter Alex Swindle and myself completing a surf dock over Skydive Arizona. The photo was taken with a GoPro Hero 3 mounted to an extension pole set on time lapse mode (One photo per second).

  • Belgian oldest TV show iComme : Skydive Arizona special edition

    Watch the Belgian TV show iComme about the Eloy crew. Reached 27% of the belgian homes that day. Best results ever. Special thanks to Georges Reuter!

  • Skydive Radio Photo of the Week Show #192!

    I would like to thank Dave at Skydive Radio for making my image below their pic of the week! Skydive Radio is the world’s leading internet radio show dedicated to the sport of skydiving.  Weekly episodes include commentary, feature interviews with industry insiders, listener-contributed photos, and e-mails from an audience that spans the globe.

  • Jumping with Rickster

    Anyone who has been in the sport for more than ten minutes knows or recognizes the name Rickster Powell. Rickster is a professional test jumper for Performance Designs and has logged more than 20,000 jumps! In addition to being an amazing canopy pilot, he is also a highly accomplished photographer with many national and international competitions under his…