Where to Find Skydiving Competitions and Events on Skydive the Mag

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Skydive the Mag covers the UK skydiving calendar through three separate sections: Competitions, Events, and Club News. If you want championship results and international meet news, go to Competitions. If you want dates for competitions, courses, and British Skydiving Council or committee meetings, go to Events. If you want to know what is happening at your local drop zone, go to Club News.

The three sections and what each one holds

Section What it covers Use it when you want to
Competitions News from all the British Skydiving National Championships and international competitions Follow results, teams, and championship reporting
Events Competitions, courses, Council and committee meetings Find out when something is scheduled
Club News What has been happening at your local drop zone Catch up on activity close to home

The distinction matters because the two calendar-style sections are not duplicates. Competitions is written as news coverage of championships and international meets. Events is the listing side: it tells you when the latest competitions, courses, Council meetings, and committee meetings are taking place. Club News sits outside both and is organised around drop zones rather than a national schedule.

How to use them together

  1. Start with Events if you are planning around a date — it is the section described as telling you when competitions, courses, and meetings happen.
  2. Move to Competitions for the reporting around British Skydiving National Championships and international competitions, rather than for scheduling.
  3. Check Club News for drop-zone-level activity, which is where local happenings are collected rather than national fixtures.

Expected result: you end up with a date from Events, context and results from Competitions, and local colour from Club News, instead of hunting through one section for all three.

Where this fits in the wider site

Skydive the Mag is organised into six content areas: Club News, Competitions, Events, Gear, Progression, and Safety. Competitions and Events are the two that answer calendar and results questions; Gear, Progression, and Safety are skill- and equipment-focused rather than schedule-focused. The site also carries a sign-up form for the British Skydiving Newsletter, which is a separate way to receive updates rather than a section you browse.

Common sticking points

  • Treating Competitions and Events as the same thing. They are listed separately, and the descriptions differ: one is championship and international news, the other is a when-and-where listing that also includes courses and meetings.
  • Looking for local drop-zone news under Events. Local activity is filed under Club News.
  • Assuming the newsletter sign-up replaces browsing. The form asks you to agree to the Privacy Policy before submitting; it is an opt-in for updates, not a directory of fixtures.

If your goal is simply to know what is coming up, Events is the section to open first. If your goal is to read about how a championship or international competition went, Competitions is the one.