Skydive Arizona News

AXIS — one of skydiving education’s indisputably premium brands. Brianne Thompson and Niklas Daniel, AXIS’s owners and instructors, are a pair of highly decorated skydivers who founded AXIS as a boutique instruction operation. The intentionally-small operation has been based at Skydive Arizona since 2010. In that time, Nik and Brianne have managed to actually revolutionize how skydiving is coached.

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

An Arizona woman crossed a big item off her bucket list Friday when she jumped out of a plane on her 100th birthday with her daughter and granddaughter at Skydive Arizona in Eloy.

Miles Daisher plans a surprise visit to be a part of Amy Chmelecki's attempt to break the world record for a Head-Up formation with a huge group of 72 skydivers. The pressure is on, but Amy has the drive to make it happen......

Morgan Low from AZ Family Channel 5, came out to Skydive Arizona to take a closer look at the sport of Wing-suiting......

“We get awesome feedback from the ladies, saying ‘I never would have known how to do this out of a plane,’ or ‘I never thought I could fly without weights.’ A lot of them have to jump with heavy guys, so they come to this event and can jump with people like-sized and take pointers and accomplish things.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, skydivers from all over the country traveled to Skydive Arizona to participate in a Head-Up Formation Camp organized by some of the most experienced skydivers in the industry; Sara Curtis, Steve Curtis, Amy Chmelecki and Mikey Carpenter. The purpose of the camp: to train participants in preparation for the Upright World Record 100 Way Attempts at Skydive Chicago taking place July, 2019. Over the course of the weekend, the group made 14 jumps from 16,000ft.

Skydive Arizona AXIS and X-Force's Niklas Daniel featured on Fox 10 Phoenix news cast.

Meet a girl who grew up on the drop zone & has worked almost every aspect of the business. Meet, Windee Hill!

He began his piloting career before becoming a jumper in North Dakota. He now is one of Skydive AZ's pilots and local jumpers. Meet, Jason Hanson!

Today we meet an eccentric fella who has lived several different lifestyles before he discovered skydiving and makes wickedly hilarious skydiving films. Meet the one and only, Dave Arnett!

This guy made a static line jump in 1997 and now competes on a 4-way FS team and is a load organizer at Skydive Arizona. Meet, Jason Jones!

Today we meet someone who always knew she wanted to fly and is incredibly ambitious with awesome goals to progress in the sport. She earned her A-license here just last year - meet, Amanda Santiago!

I’m a child welfare social worker. I spend my time saving children and keeping families together. As much as I love it, it’s incredibly stressful and skydiving allows me to just worry about myself, relax, and have fun. For 60 seconds I can fly. Lots of things matter, but the small insignificant problems fade away and you can live in the moment