Anyone Up for Helping Me?

[CheekyMusician]

I apologise in advance if this is in the wrong place...I wasn't quite sure where it fitted in best.

Anyway, I already do Shotokan and my friend would quite like to get into martial arts, too, but we live miles away from each other. We're both in Glasgow (Scotland) every day together at Uni, though, so it would be ideal if we could find a Glasgow martial arts class to go to together.

The only problem is that she works most nights and I've got music lessons/karate/etc. to fit in, too, and our journeys home from Glasgow are quite long, so we can't really go to a class that finishes any later than 7 or 8pm, really.

I've been searching the 'net myself and I'm having trouble finding any suitable classes and was wondering if any of you guys had some spare time and would mind giving me a 'fresh pair of eyes' and doing a little search for me to see if you can dredge up anything I've missed.

The requirements for a suitable class are:

-that it's in Glasgow

-that it finishes no later than 7 or 8pm, but the earlier the class is, the better, really. Classes during the day instead of the evening would be fab if anyone could find any.

-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are pretty much out the equation unless the class finishes really early eg. 4pm or so.

-it can be any martial art. Ideally I'd like to get some extra Shotokan training, but I'd be willing to give virtually anything a shot.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can give me a hand here I know my requirements are pretty hard to fulfill!

[Snakeeel]

http://www.gla.ac.uk/student/clubs/Shorinji/

Escrima and Wing Tsun Organisation Scotland (EWTOS)

Glasgow West End

Phone: 0141-589-0028 - Website - Email

Learn Kung-Fu. Learn to defend yourself. Friendly, healthy, challenging, FUN! Free trial week.

Traditional Taekwondo

Upper Glenburn Rd Glasgow Lanarkshire G61 4BW

Tel: 0141 942 4778

– For Fitness & Self Defence. – Beginners Welcome. – Master TK LOH 8th Dan WTF. – Quality Instruction. – National & International Compe. – World Wide Links.

Direct Martial Arts (Scotland)

7, Heather Drive,Lenzie Kirkintilloch Glasgow Lanarkshire G66 4UE

Tel: 0141 578 7363

Kamon Wing Chun Glasgow

478, St. Vincent St Glasgow Lanarkshire G3 8XU

Tel: 0141 575 2417

Scottish Taekwon-Do Centres

52, Cantieslaw Drive East Kilbride Glasgow Lanarkshire G74 3AQ

Tel: 01355 905726

Kobeosaka Karate Club

43, Brackenrig Crescent Eaglesham Glasgow Lanarkshire G76 0HF

Tel: 0141 644 3928

Caledonian Muay Thai

95, Turnberry Rd Hyndland Glasgow Lanarkshire G11 5AS

Tel: 07710 769490

Self Defence Scotland

1552, Great Western Rd Glasgow Lanarkshire G13 1HJ

Tel: 0141 581 3023

Caledonian Muay Thai

95, Turnberry Rd Hyndland Glasgow Lanarkshire G11 5AS

Tel: 0141 560 0704

KrauseWorld

Drummond House, Hill St Glasgow Lanarkshire G3 6RN

Tel: 0141 333 1817

Carruthers Martial Arts

30, Bain St Glasgow Lanarkshire G40 2LA

Tel: 0141 641 3706

[CheekyMusician]

Thanks for the reply Snakeeel but I was really looking for training times, 'cause if I phoned around all these places they'd probably all be training at night, but I'll print them out and phone them all if the worst comes to the worst.

[TangSooGuy]

I hate to say it, but if Mondat, Tuesday, Wednesday AND Thursday evenings are out...you're going to have a hard time. At least that's the way it is here in the states...I'm not saying you aren't going to find anything, and I definitely encourage you to keep looking...it's just probably going to be hard to find something fitting that schedule.

here in the states, most classes don't even start until 4 Pm or later, and most instructors I know don't even teach on Fridays, because no one shows up. There are a lot of Saturday classes, but they're ussually in conjunction with weekday classes, and the price usually reflects that.

I wish you luck, but it might be hard to find what you are looking for.

[CheekyMusician]

I hate to say it, but if Mondat, Tuesday, Wednesday AND Thursday evenings are out...you're going to have a hard time. At least that's the way it is here in the states...I'm not saying you aren't going to find anything, and I definitely encourage you to keep looking...it's just probably going to be hard to find something fitting that schedule.

here in the states, most classes don't even start until 4 Pm or later, and most instructors I know don't even teach on Fridays, because no one shows up. There are a lot of Saturday classes, but they're ussually in conjunction with weekday classes, and the price usually reflects that.

I wish you luck, but it might be hard to find what you are looking for.

Yeah, I know. It's just hard because there's the 2 of us to accommodate 'cause on a Monday I have piano lessons and karate, Tuesday I teach guitar and Thursday I have karate. My friend works on a Monday and a Wednesday, so it leaves us with only a Friday. We can't even do Saturdays because we both work.

I know there must be the perfect class on during the day sometime when we don't have lectures somewhere in Glasgow, it's just a matter of finding it!

On the plus side, here there are very few 'dojos' like in the USA. Most martial arts are just taught out of sports centres, church halls etc. and so training only once a week or whenever isn't really a problem since most clubs just charge per session instead of monthly fees/contracts etc.

I think I might have to try and find a martial arts shop in Glasgow and go in and ask if they know of anywhere, but I'm beginning to think we're fighting a losing battle.

[aefibird]

Good luck in your search!

[Kicks]

Two other options:

1) Find a school where you can both attend 1 or 2 classes together and go to the other classes by yourself if the other can't attend.

2) Private lessons with an instructor who can meet your schedules.