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2026 ISSA Event #2, Eloy – Recap
Over the weekend of April 25-26, AXIS Flight School hosted the second 2026 ISSA Event of the year at Skydive Arizona. Competitors from three countries attended—the USA, Australia, and China. There are eight ISSA Events in total this year, and this meet brought together several world-level veterans alongside two newcomers who had never competed in…
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Freshly published: Principles of Fitness For Flying
🪂 What actually separates good bodyflight athletes from great ones? It’s not how many jumps you have. It’s not raw talent. It’s whether you understand the instrument you’re flying—your own body. How you train that body is foundational. We set out to address the best protocols to do just that, and we covered them for…
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Featured Photo: Locked In
Nik jumped with the French canopy team during their training out here at SDAZ. The result? Some none-too-shabby snaps of the Frenchmen getting seriously silly in the sky.
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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.
