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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: Videos

  • Bitchin Betty

    Here are a couple of more time lapse tests from around the Skydive Arizona Drop Zone.

  • Monsoon season is here!

    I was making a time lapse video of a growing storm cloud, when a wall of dust started to form on the horizon. The first 11 seconds of the video are a time laps of the haboob moving in, the rest is regular video footage.

  • iPhone 4 Test

    For those of you who watched my time lapse experiments and wondered how I did it, here are some things I learned so far that I would like to share with you. First you will need to get comfortable shooting images in “M” or manual mode. If you allow the camera to make any auto…

  • Experimenting with Time Lapse

    About ten years ago I watched the movie Baraka by Ron Fricke. It came out in 1992 and was inspired by the movie Koyaanisqatsi (1982) by Godfrey Reggio. The movie has no conventional plot, merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what is there.”  I was…

  • XRW Training Camp

    On March 25th, Barry Holubeck and Will Kitto came to visit me at Skydive Arizona for another XRW training camp. Skydive Arizona was a new location for us, as well as an unfamiliar discipline to the local staff. Over the weekend, we completed 8 jumps. We would like to thank Skydive Arizona and its staff…