Club Guide

List of Clubs

Harlequin Netball Club

Tuesday 8:15pm - 9:15pm

A newly established club that train every Tuesday at Darland Leisure and Activity Centre and play in the local league, always looking for new members, a great way of improving fitness and co-ordination skills. New members are requested to be 16yrs or over and all abilities are welcome.

Rossett Badminton Club

Monday and Thursday 7:30pm - 10:00pm

For the more accomplished player Rossett Badminton Club are a league based club and request that prospective players are of league standard. With weekly training sessions and a calander full of events and competitions this is certainly a busy club. Always looking for new members and all ages welcome.

For more information contact Dave (01352) 756666 or Sue (01978) 354516.

Darland Junior Badminton Club

Thursday 6:40pm - 7:30pm

A great way for aspiring young players to develop their skills and improve technique, a great way of meeting new friends and to have a go at trying to beat 'Clive’ the senior coach.

For more information contact Clive Colley (Senior Coach) (01978) 751952

Celtic Warriors Wheelchair Basketball Club (Formerlly Chester Wheelchair Jets Basketball Club)

Saturday 11am - 1pm

You don’t have to be a wheelchair user to play!

Wheelchair Basketball is a fast, furious and exciting sport played by both men and women. Wheelchair Basketball is identical to the able-bodied version and is played on the same courts with the same height baskets. Wheelchair Basketball is a growing sport in Great Britain, with over 700 players, forty clubs and approximately 60 teams competing various divisions. Did you know, Wheelchair basketball can be played by people with and without a disability. Although to reach international level players must have a permanent lower limb disability

The Celtic Warriors Wheelchair Basketball Club was formed in April 2002. The 1st team finished fourth in the 3rd division last season and only just missed out on a play off place.

The Celtic Warriors Wheelchair Basketball Club currently has a small dedicated team of volunteers who make up the club committee, including Chair, Manager, Treasurer, Secretary and player representatives.

With qualified and insured coaches and equipment provided, the Celtic Warriors Wheelchair Basketball Club are always looking to recruit new members.

For more information please contact Celtic Warriors Wheelchair Basketball Club on 07733 238455 / 07711 356541

Email: celticwarriorsbasketball@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.celticwarriors.org.uk

Wrexham Thai kick Boxing Club

Thursday 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Wrexham Thai Boxing club has Classes at a number of locations in the Wrexham area. The sessions last from 1 hour up to two hours, depending on the venue and start time. Each session typically starts with 3 x two minutes rounds of skipping / jogging on the spot/shadow boxing, which is then followed with some warm up stretches and exercises.

Once this is complete we get down to the actual training. For a two hour session we start with pad work and then go on to do some sparring, or technique work. And finally at the end of each session we do a quick warm down, just as important as the warm up, to help protect your muscles and joints from injury after the exercise
Kickboxing, or American Kickboxing, originated in the USA in the 1970’s as a result of the limitations imposed on martial arts competitions not allowing full contact kicks and punches. In general the sport uses kicks, punches and kick blocks, with kicks permitted both above and below the waist (not to the groin area).

Muay Thai kickboxing is both a sport and Martial Art with it's roots in combat training over 2000 years ago and today as Thailand's most popular spectator sport. Sometimes known as the science of eight limbs because of the use of hands, elbows, knees and feet (shins) as weapons it is one of the most aggressive martial arts, mainly because of the way the techniques are applied. The use of the word aggressive should not be associated with violence however, as respect, discipline and self-control are highly important.

All Ages are welcome 6 - 60 yrs

For more information please contact Ian Stewart (Instructor) on (01978) 761147

Jeet Kune Do

Tuesday 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Based in Chester and north Wales, Gagnon Martial Arts Academy (GMAA) offers some of the most effective empty hand and weapon based martial arts training around today. We aim to offer what we believe is the best martial arts training around but in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. There are no belt gradings in our academy, instead we opt for a 4 level system comprising of beginner, phase 1 intermediate, phase 2 intermediate and advanced level.
The 3 main areas of the curriculum are, Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Escrima and Indonesian Silat. All of the systems we use are well established and effective combat systems.
The GMAA curriculum is broken down into worksheets that students are guided through. This allows each student to work through their sheets at a pace suitable to themselves. The curriculum maintains a good sense of reality at each level. Once learned, the techniques are constantly trained to be maintained and improved upon for them to be effective in a combative situation.

From your first lesson you are taught basic combative priciples which are simple, direct and non classical. Econo my of motion, body mechanics, speed, timing and aggression combined with sensitivity are core to JKD.
All are welcome from juniors to adults

For more information contact Guru Lee Gagnon (Senior Instructor) 07941118414

Rossett Youth Club

Thursday 7:00pm - 9:00pm

A great place for the local youth community to join together every week. With a structured program of activities and sports, this little youth club certainly has some big friendly characters and are never short of things to do whether it be activities in the local community or trips further a field.

New members are always welcome, ages 13 – 18yrs old.

Trampolining and Gymnastics

Trampolining Tuesday’s 5.20pm-6.20pm & Saturday 10.00am & 11.00am
Gymnastics Saturday 10.00am-11.00am 6yrs-8yrs 11.00am-12.00pm 9yrs-11yrs

At Darland Leisure and Activity Centre we a pleased to offer the ever popular gymnastics and trampolining courses, with our fantastic club level coaches we provide Proficiency Award Schemes. this is open to all children above the age of 5. The British Gymnastics' Award Scheme is an exciting new resource, It provides a structured progressive programme for the teaching of gymnastics.

The British Amateur Gymnastics Association is the only recognised Governing Body for the sport of gymnastics and trampolining within the UK. Gymnastics is the general term for the exercises and movements, this is then split into specific disciplines.

• Men's Artistic Gymnastics
• Women's Artistic Gymnastics#
• Rhythmic Gymnastics
• Sports Acrobatics
• Sports Aerobics
• General Gymnastics
• Disabilities
• Trampolining and Tumbling

Over the past years British Gymnastics has made substantial progress, with the standards of performance being improved at all levels and in all disciplines of British gymnastics.
Awards cover six sets of 10 exercises, graded from the simplest level - Award 7 and working up towards a more advanced level - Award 2.

Entrants must start with Award 7 and work through to Award 2 to ensure the correct progression as approved by the National Technical Committees (Our friendly club coaches). On each level, six out of the ten moves must be completed in order to progress to the next level.

For levels 7 to 2 there is a badge and certificate award available for each level. Once a participant has gained awards 7 to 2 they are entitled to send off for the Level 1 Award consisting of a badge, certificate and medal.

Trampoline Awards

The Trampoline Award Scheme has ten levels, starting at Level One and progressing to Level Ten. Each award has a badge and a certificate. Any trampolinist who achieves all ten awards will be eligible for a British Gymnastics Trampoline Medal. The scheme of work is similar to the system adopted by British Gymnastics Award Scheme as they are based around the same governing body.

Birthday Parties

Sunday 10.00am - 4.00pm

Your child could have the best Birthday party ever!! Choose from a Football, Netball, Badminton or Basketball party.

You have fifty minutes in the main hall playing one of the above, and then 40 minutes in the Community room were you can bring your own party food as well as playing your party games.

Please note that alternative timetables come into effect for special events and during local school holiday periods.

For further information on any of the above clubs, please contact Darland Leisure and Activity Centre >>