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Welcome to Arizona Airspeed's home page. Arizona Airspeed began in 1994 when Jack Jefferies, Mark Kirkby, Kirk Verner, Dan BC and John Lemming (video) joined forces with Larry and Lil Hill of Skydive Arizona to start a new professional 4-way skydiving team. The team went on to dominate the 4-way event in every National and World skydiving competition for 5 years in a row.
In 1996, Airspeed teamed up with Arizona Vortex and expanded it's focus to attempt what no other team had ever accomplished; winning both the 4-way and 8-way events at a World Meet. After losing the 8-way U.S. Team slot to the Golden Knights by 2 points in 1996, only the 4-way would go on to compete and win at the 1997 World Meet. Once again Airspeed would train for both the 4-way and 8-way event in hopes of competing in both at the 1999 World Meet, this time Airspeed beat the Golden Knights by 9 points in 8-way winning both the 4-way and 8-way U.S. Team slot for the 1999 World Meet. After a long battle Airspeed won the 8-way event and took second in 4-way. The team would try again at the 2001 World Meet having won both events at the 2000 Nationals, this time winning the 4-way and taking second in 8-way.
The 8-way competition at the 2004 World Meet in Rejika, Croatia was another great battle. The meet would only go for 9 rounds due to the weather and the competition with the Russians and French was close. But the meet was called after 9 rounds and Airspeed won the 8-way event. Once again the Ottley Sword comes home! In 2006, Arizona Airspeed went to Gera, Germany to defend its 8-way title at the World Meet. The competition was plagued by weather and only 6 of the schedule 10 rounds were completed. In the end, the French edged Airspeed by 4 points to take the title.
This year, Airspeed is focusing on the 4-way event. Airspeed Odyssey consists of Craig Girard, Eliana Rodriguez, Andy Delk, Mark Kirkby and Will Pesek as video.
Eric Gin and Todd Hawkins are continuing with the project as alternates.
Also check out the Airspeed Gear Sales Page to buy containers and parachutes
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What Airspeed started in 1994 has now become an ever evolving skydiving
project, changing members from year to year but continuing the foundation
of training and competing techniques developed by the original team. Airspeed
is not only a competition team but it also works hard to share what is
learned over thousands of jumps with the rest of the skydiving community.
During the 2002 US Nationals in Ottawa, IL, Airspeed came in second in the
4-way event losing to the Golden Knights, but winning the 8-way event. This win
named Airspeed as the US 8-way team who would compete in the 2003 World Meet
in Gap, France. During this competition, Russia and the US battled through the
meet, ending up being tied after 11 rounds. In the end Russia won this meet
since they scored the most points in a single round.
