The Drop
News and Resources from AXIS Flight School
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Skydive Expo is a 6-day gear extravaganza of fun and education—seminars, manufacturers, world-class organizing, and jumping. The people who make your gear want to meet you and share all they know about their products. It’s a fun, informal event filled with education, skydiving, and skydivers.
Planned Events
The heart of the Skydive Expo is the expo itself; manufacturers from around the world will be here at low-pressure booths to answer your questions and show you their gear. Even better, you’ll be able to walk over to Skydive DeLand to test out what they teach you! There will be seminars on a wide range of topics such as packing, maintenance, new gear features, and more. Organizers will be here putting together low-key, small, pick-up style jumps—no high pressure dirt diving or fear of getting cut here.
Why?
Gear manufacturers love going to boogies because they’re the perfect environment to answer your questions, teach you about their products, meet jumpers, and have fun. All the manufacturers wanted to get together with that low-key vibe in one place, at a world-class drop zone where you can actually jump the products you’re learning about!
Who is doing this?
Gear manufacturers from around the world are organizing the Skydive Expo. This isn’t an event to sell you gear (no sales are allowed at the expo, so don’t worry about being pressured to buy anything); we just want you to learn all you can about your gear. Period. The Skydive Expo is all about safety and education.
Where and when?
DeLand, Florida, USA. April 3-8, 2012
For more information, please click here.
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Just got word that Brad from Australia received his Free Fly Crest! Achieving this enables the jumper to participate in jumps with more than three people. Check out the video below! -
December 24 (Saturday):
**Day one! Cheap jumps, load organizers and beer truck all begin and continue all boogie! **FREE appetizers at the Bent Prop from 6-9 PM.December 25 (Sunday): **Christmas day with your Arizona Family! **Yummy holiday dinner special at the Bent Prop.
December 26 (Monday): **Load Organizing (Airspeed, Arsenal, AXIS) **Canopy safety seminar relating to canopy flight at Skydive Arizona during the boogie in the main hangar at 6:00pm
December 27 (Tuesday): **Load Organizing (Airspeed, Arsenal, AXIS) **Arizona Women’s FS State Record Warm ups
December 28 (Wednesday): **Load Organizing (Airspeed, Arsenal, AXIS) **Arizona Women’s FS State Record Attempts **Giant Bonfire in the Desert: Hotdog roast included!
December 29 (Thursday): **Load Organizing 4 way FS and VFS competitions (Belly flyers will compete against hoedown flyers using a special dive pool) **Talent show! Got talent? Bring it!!! Very silly things will happen—–be afraid
December 30 (Friday): **Load Organizing (Airspeed, AXIS) **Arsenal Vertical Squentials
January 31 (Saturday): **8 way speed competition (belly and head down teams can play and compete against each other) **New Year’s party in the Bent Prop, live band outside, DJ inside—–OH, IT’S ON! **New Year’s midnight jump and Champaign ride in the DC3 **Balloon drop at midnight in the Bent Prop under the circus tent
January 1 (Sunday): **The awesomeness will kick off at 10:00am with load one (we can all have a sleep-in) **Random fun organizing
For more information, please visit the Skydive AZ website.
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Here are all the scores from the USPA Nationals, courtesy of 90Percent!
(WebNews Wednesday, 30 November 2011 – Pages 19 – 39)
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The United States Parachute Association (USPA) held its National Skydiving Championships at Skydive Arizona in late October and early November 2011. Competitors enjoyed near-perfect weather throughout and performed many complex maneuvers in a range of categories, including 4-way, 8-way, 10-way, and 16-way formation skydiving; vertical formation skydiving; canopy formation; freefall style & accuracy landing; and the artistic events of freeflying and freestyle. USPA Director of Competition Jim Hayhurst said, “It was a stellar competition; 576 competitors made over 14,000 jumps in 10 action-filled days. USPA awarded 109 gold medals to our 2011 national champions and selected 57 skydivers to our 2012 United States Parachute Team. Deserving special mention was the participation of a young man named Jarrett Martin, a paraplegic who took part in the style and accuracy events and whose courage and competitive spirit inspired us all.” Many of the championship activities can be seen at Skydive-TV.com. In addition to the National Championships, Skydive Arizona also hosted the annual Halloween Boogie at the same time! Here are some of my selects from the Nationals as well as the costume party: -
Australian jumpers Brad and Emma spent five weeks at Skydive Arizona to train in the sky and tunnel to improve on their overall body-flight. During their stay they completed 100 jumps and 16 hours of tunnel! Here are some of the highlights:
Thanks for visiting us. It was great flying with you guys. Can’t wait to do it again.
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Dean Perrine is officially a frequent flyer here at AXIS Flight School. Check out his last two tunnel sessions at Skyventure AZ!
