Freefly Camps & Coaching
Tunnel camps and one-on-one coaching with the World's best.
Airchix mixed FS and Freefly Camp
18-22 
September
For the ladies with coaching by the ladies at the very highest level for individual FS skills, 4-way, freefly and freestyle.
See details here.
camps to order
You don't have to wait till we bring in an outside coach. At Airkix we have some of the best freefly (and flat fly) flyers & coaches who are expert at both flying and tunnel coaching. This means we can build a camp for you and your friends which is completely tailored to your own ambitions. See details below.
Contact us now, call 0845 331 6549 or 01908 247770 or email skydive@airkix.com for further details
Fabian Raidel
July 15-17th
There’s not a huge amount we can say about this guy that you probably don’t already know, but let us assure you that he probably knows more about freeflying and coaching in wind tunnels than Michael Schumacher knows about winning F1 races.
2006 & 2008 World-Challenge Gold Medalist.
30 minutes time with coaching - £385
60 minutes time with coaching - £735
Call 0845 331 6549 or 01908 247770 or email skydive@airkix.com for further details and bookings
Volairkix
New dates coming soon
Beginner to top flyer, this camp is aimed at improving your flying skills whatever your level or discipline. Over the two days you can choose to fly 30 minutes or more.
The camp includes;
- all pre-flight briefs
- coached flying time with the Volairkix team
- debriefs utilising video of your flying
Volairkix members are highly experienced tunnel and in-air coaches and are the UK's current National Champions. Contact the team for more information.
Adam Mattacola
British National freestyle champion, Bodyflight World Challenge silver medal winner, European record holder, British record holder, BPA/USPA freefly/WARP coach, AFF instructor, IBA tunnel instructor. Adam has over 1,000 skydives and is a full time coach.
Andy Newell
Andy has thousands of jumps and is both a professional load organiser and freefly coach based at the Airkix wind tunnel (Milton Keynes). Andy is the current British National freefly champion for 2007/08 and is an IBA tunnel instructor.
Mike Carpenter
Mike has over 5,000 skydives and has represented Great Britain six times at international competition and world & European records. Mike trains full time for competitions and is also a BPA freefly coach.
30 minutes time with coaching - £360
Each ten minutes extra, add - £120
For more information contact the team at info@volareproflight.com or +44 (0) 7989 076571
Airkix Instructors
Our guys are amongst the finest in the World with more experience than most people can get in a lifetime, why not ask an Airkix Instructor to take time out and coach you individually or as a small group.
Call us on 01908 247772 /3 for details or email skydive@airkix.com
Yoko Okazaki
Available for private coaching anytime
Come fly with a coach that is 
both fun and highly experienced.
Yoko has an extensive coaching background in Gymnastics and has a passion to improve a flyer's ability at all skill levels.
She has been competing at World level since 2000 and has always been on the podium with 3 gold medals. A top freeflyer with lots of load-organising experience and a main organiser of the first 'Head Up Challenge' in 2006 as well as a Women’s Vertical World Record holder in 2003.
She has 6,400 jumps and over 100 hours in the tunnel.
Bookings are available direct through Yoko at £370 for 30 minutes or £700 for 60 minutes. Prices include comprehensive coaching and tunnel time.
Book now by contacting Yoko: yoko@axis21.tv
Please keep in mind that we follow a freefly progression, where certain skills have to be demonstrated before moving on to the next levels.
Briefly described they are: belly-fly, back-fly, walking, sit-fly, transitions and finally head-down.
If you are ready to start flying on your head and you have progressed through all the other levels, please let us know when you book your flights so we will have a qualified safety instructor available for you.
Book now. Call 0845 331 6549 or 01908 247770 or email skydive@airkix.com for further details.
Avalore
Avalore now use Airkix to conduct their tunnel camps on a regular basis.
Check details of their tunnel coaching programme here.
For further details call 0845 331 6549 or 01908 247770 or email skydive@airkix.com for further details.
2 Day Tunnel Camps to order
We hold two day Tunnel Camps and shorter sessions of skills training to order and can call upon a wide range of top class, UK based coaches who excel in the tunnel and at coaching.
what to expect
Please be aware that tunnel flying is different to skydiving and whilst that may seem obvious it does have greater ramifications for Freeflyers than Flat flyers.
Firstly, we move around more in early freefly and this can be difficult to control as new positions and manoeuvres are tried in a tunnel.
Secondly, back-flying is required as standard position from which many transitions are made to and from. This will need learning and it is important to note that having no rig makes a significant difference.
So, please do not expect to simply translate skydives to minutes and expect to be carving around your buddies in no time at all. New skills take time and it will significantly improve the preciseness of your three dimensional flying on future skydives.
The coaches
At Airkix we will regularly call upon names such as Rusty Lewis, who is arguably the UK’s best known tunnel flyer. He
has worked in SkyVenture tunnels for several years and is a top IBA Instructor & trainer. He is also a stunning flyer in every discipline from flat flying to head-down.
Alec Cotten is another regular, a past member of Euphoria and an Airkix instructor & coach.
Other available coaches include Andy Lovemore and Andy Ford as well as many of our own Instructors who are always available for specialist coaching.
Who’s it for?
Here’s the good news. Either the Tunnel Camps or the one-on-one coaching is for anyone and everyone from novice flyer to experienced head-down star. Because the tunnel time and coaching is in such small groups, we can personalise it to your experience level.
Introduction
The first step toward the goal of total freedom in the air is intensive
coaching. Our coaches can help you with training concepts that come
from years of teaching and flying experience. Regardless of your flying
abilities, working individually with a coach creates a learning environment
in which you can be safely challenged to push your limits and raise
your awareness. All positions of free flight can be worked on in the
tunnel, from belly flying, to head up and head down. This training
will advance every flyer to the next level.
The freefly camps are spread over 2 full days, with the student-to-coach ratio held at 3 to 1. Experience has shown that a low student-to-coach ratio is the most effective form of tuition available, enabling you to develop new skills and enhance existing ones in a fraction of the time normally required.
Each student will get 60 minutes of flying time, which you will spend in the tunnel working one-on-one with your coach who will provide instant feedback for rapid learning. The beauty of learning in the tunnel is that it allows you to focus on building a basic relationship with the air, free of normal skydive distractions, ‘looking bad’, not being there, break off, deployment, canopy flying, landing, etc.
Your tunnel time will be videoed throughout the whole camp (included in the price). Working inside the tunnel gives you a true understanding of vertical and horizontal movement and being able to critique your position and movements enables you to accelerate your learning, and helps you to understand the art of free flying.
In the event you want to fly and receive more coaching, extra blocks of 15 minutes will be available.
Curriculum
The camps are designed to take a novice freeflyer from the very basic steps of body flight all the way through to advanced flying techniques following a carefully designed program. This progression is used not only to introduce you to the mechanics of total body flight in multiple orientations but also for safety.
The free fly progression is as follows:
- Belly Flying
- Back Flying
- Vertical flying (stand/walking and sit-flying)
- Transitions
- Head down
At each level of progression you will work on:
- Body position
- Fall-rate control
- Forwards and backwards movement
- Turns
- Side-sliding
- Grips
- Super positioning
Summary
- 2 day tunnel camp to order
- 60 minutes one-on-one tunnel time
- Extensive ground training and video debriefing
- DVD included
- Light snacks included
- Student-to-coach ratio of 3:1
- Suit skydivers of any experience level – tailored to your needs
Price
£745 for the 2 day camp
£185 for extra blocks of 15 minutes, available for booking now
or during the course
Call to reserve your place on 0845 331 6549 or 01908 247772 or email skydive@airkix.com
One-on-one Coaching
If you can’t afford the time or cost of the 2 Day Camp right now, why not slot in some evening or weekend coaching with one of our coaches.
The tuition will be tailored to your requirements which you 
decide
with the coach.
We include a DVD to cover the session and intensive briefing and debriefing.
Evening sessions: £225
Weekend sessions: £245
Let us know when you want to fly and we’ll schedule you in!
Call to reserve your place on 0845 331 6549 or 01908 247772 or email skydive@airkix.com