Clifton Bridge Club Visitors Website - Bridge Courses
Beginners' Bridge - Course Information
The Club has classes for Beginners with one session on a Wednesday afternoon  and the other on Friday evening.   You need absolutely NO previous experience to come on these and you don't have to have a partner. To book your place on Wednesday afternoons or Friday evenings simply email Pat Murphy at tonymurfia@tiscali.co.uk . The next courses will start on September 10th and 12th 2008 but you can enrol for them right now to ensure that you have a place.

Clifton have around a dozen EBU (English Bridge Union) trained Partner/Teachers who will be delivering the courses using the recommended "Bridge For All" programme.   The  first lesson is FREE but at the second lesson, which is also FREE, each student will be asked to buy the EBU  "Beginning Bridge" book which will be of enormous help in consolidating what you have learned at the classes, and will give you all the basics of how to become a good Bridge player....it costs just £10 and with it comes a year's FREE membership of the EBU and free copies of their Student magazine! At the third lesson you should be convinced of what a wonderful experience a game of bridge is and you will be asked to pay £30 for the lessons of which there will be a further 8.  Because we have so many Partner/Teachers there will be several of them attending each session so that students can have more individual attention. 

The Club will complement these Courses with special "Supported Sessions" which will be held at the Club on Wednesday Evenings and where the "new boys and girls" will be able to play Bridge (under the supervision of  Partner/Teachers, Peter Plant and Eileen Hopson) but be able to ask questions about difficult bids etc.....Peter and Eileen will also deliver FREE "reinforcing" lessons from time to time   There is also a special session on a Wednesday afternoon which is aimed at Beginners and Inexperienced players where the play is relaxed and gentle. From there you can progress to our "Social Bridge" sessions on Monday and Friday evenings where there will be no help but they will be more leisurely sessions, played in a relaxed atmosphere!   After that you'll be ready for our friendly/competitive Bridge sessions! (but, of course, you can always fast-track if you're picking up the game quickly!)

Classes for Intermediate players
From time-to-time the Club offers sessions for the more experienced players on various aspects of the game such as transfers, doubling, overcalls, defending contracts.  These sessions are run by EBU-trained teachers from our Bridge Teams.

 

Coaching for Team Players
The very experienced Dagmar Fazackerley leads coaching sessions through discussion groups for our Team players.