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Foundations of Flight: Approach With Confidence – Part 6, Final Approach and Landing
In this installment, we help you to stay calm, navigate a couple of tricky cognitive traps, and—quite literally—use your head. Enjoy! To view past issues of the series, click on the links below: Part 1: Beyond Imprinting Part 2: Holding Area Part 3: Landing Pattern Part 4: Pattern Transformations Part 5: Pattern Adjustments
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…aaaand we’re on IG now.
We launched our Instagram account this month—yes! one of those! We’ve held off on spinning one up for a long time, as you know. Why? Well: we’re busy competing, instructing and coaching, and we’ve chosen to spend lots of time and effort making the longer-form content on your YouTube channel amazing. With that said: it’s…
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Foundations of Flight: Approaching With Confidence – Part 5, Pattern Adjustments
In this installment, we help you to develop your gut instincts to the point you can trust them. Enjoy! To view past issues of the series, click on the links below: Part 1: Beyond Imprinting Part 2: Holding Area Part 3: Landing Pattern Part 4: Pattern Transformations
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Five-Minute Call: High-Noon Shadow
True story: One of the best perks of this work is the opportunity to create the conditions for this kind of grin. Advait, we’re cheering for you!
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Throwback: The Day We Dropped a Bowling Ball Out of a Plane Over Moab
We’ve had a pretty big YouTube channel for a pretty long time, but there are certain videos that never stop finding new eyeballs. This is one of ’em. If your own eyeballs haven’t found it yet, we hope you like it. Right?! Here’s the the full backstory. The Setup It’s 2011. Prince William marries Kate…
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Go Time!
Is a helicopter jump on your bucket list? Check out the Skydive Arizona events page for the next available Huey jumps.
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Foundations of Flight: Approaching With Confidence – Part 4, Pattern Transformations
In this installment, we help you use the precision landing protocols shared in the previous installments even when the world is not cooperating with your plans. Enjoy! Editors Note (illustration clarification): In the second image above (Medium/Strong Winds), the final leg should be shorter and the base leg closer to the target than the No/Light…
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Foundations of Flight: Approaching With Confidence – Part 3, Landing Pattern
If you missed (or want to refresh yourself on) the previous chapter (part 2), click here.
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Slowing It Down With Skydive the Mag
Our friends in Ol’ Blighty invited us to share our work on slow flight (previously published by Parachutist on this side of the pond), and we were glad to oblige. We’re pretty pleased with how it came out! Any questions about the content? Hit us up.
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Foundations of Flight: Approaching With Confidence
The December 2025 Issue of Parachutist is hitting mailboxes. 💌 As promised, in it is the next installment of Foundations of Flight: Approaching with Confidence. Enjoy! And remember that we’re always here to answer your questions. If you missed (or want to refresh yourself on) the previous chapter, click here.
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The Wrap Up:
Concluding the 2025 ISSA World Cup Series The ISSA World Cup Series 2025 brought together over 61 competitors from 12 countries facing off across three continents in eight high-speed events to determine the world’s top speed skydivers. The ISSA World Series 2025 consisted of 8 separate meets, with the season culminating in Eloy, Arizona, with…
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ISSA World Cup Series Final 2025
The AXIS Flight School hosted the ISSA World Cup Series Event of 2025 at Skydive Arizona has wrapped, following a full-throttle weekend of Speed Skydiving on December 13–14, 2025. Over the weekend, 14 competitors gave it everything they had, chasing one simple goal: fly as fast as humanly possible. 👉 Competitor Snapshot 👈11x male |…
