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.
Australian Freefly Team Azure visited AXIS Flight School at Skydive Arizona to continue their training from six months ago. Brad and Emma are working hard to become the next National Champions back home in order to compete at the World Championships in 2014. In addition to working on their individual flying skills, the team has started to create a unique free routine, and building up their VFS skills. Here are some pictures I took during one of the tunnel sessions in the Skyventure Arizona wind tunnel.
During their stay Brad and Emma also got the chance to take part in the Arizona Arsenal World Record try-out camp. Doing well at this event is crucial in order to get an invitation to take part in the upcoming at Head Down World Record at Skydive Chicago later this summer (current record is 108-way, target for new record is at least a 120-way!).
To view Brad and Emma’s progress over the last six months, check out this previous blog post!
Starting on July 28th – August 5th 2012, Skydive Vienna will be celebrating its 40th anniversary. Plans are in the works for a Vertical Record, Freefly Tournament, Canopy Piloting Competition, and Coaching opportunities for FS, VFS, Wing-suit, and Canopy skills. To find out more, you can visit the Facebook event page.
Please visit the Skydive Vienna Boogie page to register!
PARA CLUB Wr. NEUSTADT
Flugfeldgürtel 5, 2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria
The Skydive EXPO was a 6-day multi-part event, with the purpose of showcasing equipment, offer educational seminars and do some jumping. The main focus of the Skydive Expo was the trade-show. This allowed manufacturers from all over the world to feature their gear at booths, answer questions and show off the latest and greatest. Some of them even had some gear to demo! Daily seminars were offered on a wide range of skydiving related topics by some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. Load organizers were on-hand at Skydive DeLand during the jump portion of the Expo, putting together small, low-key, pick-up-style jumps throughout the event. It was a great time for all experience levels!
For more information and to view images and videos of the event, be sure to check out the EXPO Facebook page!
AXIS Flight School attended the event to help organize (Brianne), give a seminar (Nik on Photography), and capture events footage. Here is entire list of the organizers who made this event so awesome:
Here is a slide show of my selects of the event:
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Honoring TED STRONG
Ted was one of the creators of the skydiving industry, and he strived to improve the industry that he loved without seeking fame or credit. He just wanted a safer and more inviting environment for everybody to enjoy and experience skydiving the way he did. He saw a need for education that is accessible to all sport skydivers – and what better way to do that than a jumping event where people learned about their gear. To that end, Ted helped draft the original guidelines of the Skydive Expo. We’ll honor Ted’s memory at the 2012 Skydive Expo in many ways—not least of which will be sharing safety, education, and fun with sport skydivers from around the world.
Below you will find a short video as well as some photos of the jump dedicated to Ted.
Sandy Grillet organized the jump, coming up with the dive (D-16) and inviting a lot of highly skilled flyers to execute the jump. The images I took below are free for anyone! Please feel free to share them with friends and family and post them wherever you like. They are large enough for prints if desired.
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 rounds. A sequence of compulsory moves will be drawn from the dive pool below (see link). Each round will have a different draw. You and your partner for that round gain one point each time you correctly perform a move in the order of the draw. A video pool camera flyer will record the dives. Your score for each round will be added up. The person with the highest score wins. For a list of the rules click HERE.
Here a couple of videos from the meet by Brandon Atwood and Steve Curtis:
Here are the results for all 5 rounds from all three classes:
The “Hang Ten Trophy” stays in Arizona for another year 🙂
