Club times too late?
Wed, 21/07/2010 - 09:00 — ldonald
I would like to get a general view on whether the club times are too late for people, and may stop you from training sometimes, for example, finishing at 10pm on a Friday night has long been a pain for me, and personnally for me training for the last 12 years giving up every Freiday night has been tough. What do you think? Maybe if enough people prefer earlier times or different evenings we may change them?
Club training times
I'm looking to join a Jujitsu club in MK.
I used to do Karate a while ago and our main training days were Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think these days are the best for training as they are not directly after the weekend (Monday) or just before the weekend (Friday).
It may only be a psychological think however in my opinion most people, after the weekend, struggle on a Monday (could just be me :)). I think somebody commented that Fridays are family/party days so people are less likely to train on a Friday. Also the benefit, in my opinion, of training Tuesday/Thursday is that what you learn on Tuesday can be reinforced on Thursday.
Just my two pence :)
Gun
My thoughts
There's two points here - a different evening, and changing the time.
A different evening is a problem at Shenley - the Gym is only available on Friday, unless other clubs fold or move on. We need the mats, so getting a different room doesn't help. We could always look into a community hall somewhere else, but we'd need to buy our own mats (£2000) and would have to put them out and back each session as we do on Mondays. A weekend slot may be available at Shenley, but that eats further into everyone's free time.
If we want to finish earlier we either shorten the session or start earlier. That either means moving the junior session earlier or overlapping them somehow. Overlapping requires more senseis to manage everyone and I'm not sure it's been a success at the Leighton club. Moving the time back means we have to get there earlier - not easy for everyone. Shortening the session is possible - other clubs often only have an hour for the juniors with no break, but giving students less training may not go down well. We'd have to reduce the cost to £3.
It's possible that moving to a different night might get more adults in. It may also lose us more juniors, something the club can't risk as we rely on them so much. Even moving the time would need to be done carefully as the kids do a lot of activities and we may end up clashing.
Geoff
club times
It would be good to know if the centre has any more slots, so we could have a choice. Geoff can you ask?
The club has been running for a very long time at Shenley, same time, same day, and I would personnelly change it if I could.
Regards
Lee.
club dates
I'll check and see what our options are.
I asked the guys on Monday what would encourage people to train and they all said it wasn't the time that was the problem, but the day. Friday has always been bad for senior but good for juniors.
We could perhaps train seniors one day and juniors on Friday, but of course we need instructors to be able to make that commitment. If seniors trained on (for example) a Thursday, then they could start earlier too. I imagine the theatre would be free even if the gym is not.
Geoff
Club times
Geoff, good idea. Thursday would be perfect for me, and I hope better for other people. If the centre can accomodate us on Thursday, I would propose to change the Seniors to Thursday 7.00 - 8.30pm which I think is an ideal training night and time, and we can see how popular it is.
Regards
Lee.