Clubs/Socs

John

Before you decide what to join think will you have the time to avail of that club's/society's events and facilities. No point joining a club and not being able to go to the training sessions. I made the mistake in first year of joining loads of societies thinking I'd go to stuff from them all, I'm only involved in one society now. If you're really into a subject, join their society. If you're really into a sport, join the club. Similarly, if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.

Basically join a couple of societies/clubs that you know you'll enjoy and then branch out from there. May sound like I'm stating the bleeding obvious but if everything you join costs on average €2 you'll dent your pocket and be regretting it when you have to buy course materials. Especially if you're moving away from home, you'll have to get used to money management quickly so keep your money in fresher's week for buying decent drink (no free drink will be drinkable, it's all the stuff nowhere can sell normally).

Now go check out this thread

PrecariousNuts

I'm thinking of joining

Physics -Rrelated to my course and I love it
Maths - Same
Astronomy - I've always loved/been fascinated with it
Gamers - See if it's any good
Snowsports - My love
Rifle - Sounds interesting
Swimming - Maybe

Chick

i woul like to join hockey, but does anyone know if beginners can join?

i heard of a trampolining society, thats sounds like so much fun!! is it real?

Kappar

RuggerChick wrote:

i woul like to join hockey, but does anyone know if beginners can join?

i heard of a trampolining society, thats sounds like so much fun!! is it real?

I am sure you can and I don;t think they do much tramolining

Chick

Ive heard the hockey is out in Santry tho, which could me a major pain in the ass.

What does the Trampolining society actually do then....?

Kappar

RuggerChick wrote:

Ive heard the hockey is out in Santry tho, which could me a major pain in the ass.

Yeah there's not enough room on campus only for the likes of cricket and rugby.

What does the Trampolining society actually do then....?

Can you say "drink"

RuggieBear

RuggerChick wrote:

i woul like to join hockey, but does anyone know if beginners can join?

Yeah, a lot of my friends played for the ladies 6ths and they were more or less newbies at it. Not sure how many teams they have now but join up and find out.

Santry isn't that hard to get to. just a 20min bus journey away. Used to do it all the time....

John

As far as I know, they trampoline every week. They teach you to do mad flips and things.

Chick

thanks about the hockey, i wasnt sure if i could join. Is santry really only 20mins from Trinity yeah? that doesnt sound half as bad as i'd imagined lol.

and as for the trampolining, it sounds cool ive always wanted to be able to do all the mad filps n somersaults n stuff always handy to have eh?

Nietzschean

the trampoleening is over rated imo, twill be utterly horrible for the first few mts too, you'll have to stay for an hour or 2 for 5mins on it.... pay a visit around jan/feb....

Imposter

RuggerChick wrote:

thanks about the hockey, i wasnt sure if i could join. Is santry really only 20mins from Trinity yeah? that doesnt sound half as bad as i'd imagined lol.

Most clubs will be training in Santry in the early evening. It used to take us upwards of 45 mins with out own bus. With Dublin bus you needed to allow an hour as there's a 10 minute walk at the santry end. (and about 5 mins from front arch to bus stop in town). Weekends with public transport it takes about half an hour. Cycling takes about the same.

Boston

PrecariousNuts wrote:

I'm thinking of joining

Physics -Rrelated to my course and I love it
Maths - Same
Astronomy - I've always loved/been fascinated with it
Gamers - See if it's any good
Snowsports - My love
Rifle - Sounds interesting
Swimming - Maybe

Gamer's< fair few TP's or people doing related course's, you won't be alone. Rifle is ment to be prety good, and they have the best freshers intro of all the society's, by best I mean best bear. Swimming is out in santry or something. Astronomy was taken over by The physics brief last year, though it might still be around. trampoleening meets twice a week, good fun to watch.

Crash

Boston wrote:

good fun to watch.

Seeya there then Joe.

Boston

God only knows, with these schols exams and the like, mightn't have any time. Enjoy first year. I spent many a night mesmerized by the repetitive motions of the feminist trampoline women. bounce... bounce... bounce...

Yea pick up maybe two clubs to do at most, you really won't have time for more then that neil. It important to have abite of fun, don't get me wrong, but your degree should be your main interest, and CS is interesting enough. I've my single priority picked out already, and if I've the time i'll do Judo, which is mor eto do with the fact those guys are deadly sound guys.. If you really want to do trampolining I can introduce you to a very sexy blonde, but I recon Jen wouldn't be to pleased.

Nietzschean

umm no fit chicks in trampoleening last time i looked, fraid nothing to see

Boston

You didn't look last year. She's actually an engineer that goes from time to time.

blobert

The Rifle club is good fun, if you like shooting stuff:)

Nietzschean

Boston wrote:

You didn't look last year. She's actually an engineer that goes from time to time.

true, i looked the year before...it improved then?

Crash

Boston wrote:

If you really want to do trampolining I can introduce you to a very sexy blonde, but I recon Jen wouldn't be to pleased.

hehe i'd say she wouldnt, no.


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atlas

DUSAC - the sub aqua - diving club. Fantastic club, great sport but bloody expensive. Well worth it if you have the cash tho :cool:

Chick

Triceradon wrote:

umm no fit chicks in trampoleening last time i looked, fraid nothing to see

eh you havent taken into account the incoming members

sleepingbeauty

umm no fit chicks in trampoleening last time i looked, fraid nothing to see

im more interested in knowing whether there are any fit guys..... anyone fancy enlightening me?

John

I'm sure everyone is quite fit in trampoleening, it's a full cardio-vascular work-out...
oh...
now I get it.

Boston

blankcanvas wrote:

im more interested in knowing whether there are any fit guys..... anyone fancy enlightening me?

If by fit you mean homosexual, then yes loads.

geo

lookin at doing:
Astronomy and Space
Gamers
Climbing
Canoe
mabye rifle aswell
also could someone recommend a good martial art club in collage that would be good for beginners

John

Don't do any martial arts but the judo people all seem sound enough

ApeXaviour

John2 wrote:

Don't do any martial arts but the judo people all seem sound enough

Yeah we do!!!

Boston

apexaviour wrote:

Yeah we do!!!

Do you do much of the Judo yourself. I went for a little while last year, but a crappy timetable forced me to stop. Recon you will have a decent slot in the main hall this year.

John

apexaviour wrote:

Yeah we do!!!

Well, MOST judo people seem sound enough

Ask for Marc at the fresher's stand, he has delightful hair

Chick

ive been doing judo for the past 3 years and im an orange belt. whats the judo club in tcd like size-wise?

sleepingbeauty

If by fit you mean homosexual, then yes loads.

so that explains the campness with which the guy from trampoleening was talking to us at freshers week last year....


im thinking i should join a society this year and actually stick with it, last year i lasted to the end of freshers week, and that was only because of the free stuff.....was thinking maybe photography, anyone know anything about it? actually looking at the list surfing sounds pretty cool, i suppose it would be kinda expensive though.

Nietzschean

Boston wrote:

If by fit you mean homosexual, then yes loads.

i always thought that was a tcd thing, but apparently its the same in ucd/dcu, extension of the LGB soc...

Boston

SkyLynx wrote:

i always thought that was a tcd thing, but apparently its the same in ucd/dcu, extension of the LGB soc...

In fairness it appears to be only about 50 / 50

Nietzschean

uhhh must have changed since last i saw it so, either that or those that arn't are extreemly kamp...

Boston

Well thats what the girls say anyway. Can't really comment as the only guys I know that go to it are actually gay. O what a waste of some of those fine women.

Chick

lol, theyre not wasted if more guys wud go to it

Sparks

Only join stuff you think you'll be able to do and that you think you'll like? What a load of codswallop!

Join everything you can afford to join. Try them out. Because believe me, while you think you know when you walk in the door that first day what lies ahead of you (no jokes about the campagnile please...), you simply haven't got a clue. You don't until half-way through the first year! So sign up to everything that even looks remotely interesting and try everything once. Believe me, you'll never - ever - find it that easy to try so many esoteric sports and activities ever again. Wasting the opportunity would be mind-boggingly dumb.

Oh, and the rifle club is good, safe and harmless fun (it's olympic target shooting with air rifles and .22 rifles, not some sort of paintball with Uzis!) ... not that I'm biased or anything ...

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Sparks, may I ask if there are any eyesight requirements for the rifle club? I thought I'd ask since you do seem so eager about it

PrecariousNuts

I went and got myself a pair of glasses there last week mainly so I can see during lectures. My eyes aren't that bad so I hope I'll still be able to join!

Sparks

Well, you can't be blind article, but other than that, no, not really. I have to shoot with glasses, so do many others. You can use your normal glasses to start with, and if you take up the sport yourself seriously, you can get custom frames specifically for shooting (they ensure that the lens hands parallel to the back of the sights so you look straight through the lens instead of at an angle).

Basicly, you just join up in fresher's week and they/we teach you all you need to know and have all the equipment you'll need.

There's a leaflet you'll see being handed out, if you want a peek at one from prior years (only dates have changed), take a peek at this 1.4Mb PDF.

Or, you can look at it as a webpage with lousy formatting here.

But please note that the date for the initial safety lecture is WRONG in those leaflets - pick one up during freshers week to find out the correct time and place!

PrecariousNuts

Are there any other societies that you reccommend Sparks?

Sparks

Well, Aikido was fun - one of the only martial arts clubs in there that you had little chance of getting knocked about a lot in (I think we had one injury - a dislocated clavicle - during the four years I was an undergrad, and that one was my stupid fault for mucking about after class unsupervised, the worst we ever had during class was a strained calf muscle). I mean, talk to Karate and pretty much everyone that went to the intervarsities can tell you how they got their nose broken! :eek:

Sparks

And it was interesting to find yourself playing against people with Master ratings in the chess club... but apart from those three, I'm afraid I didn't avail of enough opportunities in college (something I've often regretted since).

ApeXaviour

PrecariousNuts wrote:

Are there any other societies that you reccommend Sparks?

First off DURC is not a society, its a sports club.
I'm gonna say it again:
Join a sports club ya nancies! Socs are gay!

I mean gay as defined as being socially gauche, sad or degenerate. In no way am I implicating people of homosexual orientation in my comment. No more than if I were to say "sinister" and be referring to left-handed people.

Boston

Apex, give us your thoughts on Judo, I'm on two minds about doing it, time commitments and all.

Sparks

True Ape (about the society/club thing).
There are actual differences (in case anyone's wondering) between Socs and Clubs - Socs are managed by the CSC, Clubs by the DUCAC; amongst other things this means it's more expensive to join a Club than a Society because Clubs pay a fee (it's either one or two euro, I can't remember which) to DUCAC for each member that joins (something about insurance) whereas Socs don't do so for the CSC.

ApeXaviour

Boston wrote:

Apex, give us your thoughts on Judo, I'm on two minds about doing it, time commitments and all.

Judo as a club in trinity? Well I've been injured for a while so the last time I trained in the college we were in a crappy little squash court. Talk about dangerous, especially with the numbers. As far as I know it's changed to the main hall now which is why I'm going back. The last thing you need is to be thrown against a wall. As far as Alonzo the coach goes, he's certainly qualified and a good coach, but (IMHO) he's doesn't take the women too seriously, if you're a bird there you need to be able give it as good as you get cos he can be erm.. "socially inappropriate" at times with them.
I'm not sure if he's even coaching there anymore??
The people are very nice, helpful and quite skilled too.

btw have a look at the tcd judo website, it's quality!

As far as judo as a sport goes I love it. It's a very technical game. It's also extremely physical and is a form of full contact grappling. Its nature of practising against a resisting opponent (like boxing, bjj, wrestling, muai-thai) also makes it one of the more effective non-weapon martial arts out there. Moreso than karate, aikido, TKD etc (if you disagree, ask the lads on the martial arts boards, theyll put you straight). Though inspite of this it can still be practised by young and old, men and women.

Sparks

Er, Ape - you do remember that Kano didn't intend Judo to be a martial art but a sport, right?

(and yes, if you want to beat the crap out of someone, aikido's not the one you want. Of course, if you want to do something that's fun, gives you a great deal of mental focus, agility and flexibility, and which teaches you how to fall correctly - sorry Axe, I've seen TCD judoka fall and it's painful to watch by comparison - then Aikido might be what you want. But, as above, try everything.)

Boston

ApeXaviour wrote:

Judo as a club in trinity? Well I've been injured for a while so the last time I trained in the college we were in a crappy little squash court. Talk about dangerous, especially with the numbers. As far as I know it's changed to the main hall now which is why I'm going back. The last thing you need is to be thrown against a wall. As far as Alonzo the coach goes, he's certainly qualified and a good coach, but (IMHO) he's doesn't take the women too seriously, if you're a bird there you need to be able give it as good as you get cos he can be erm.. "socially inappropriate" at times with them.
I'm not sure if he's even coaching there anymore??
The people are very nice, helpful and quite skilled too.

btw have a look at the tcd judo website, it's quality!

As far as judo as a sport goes I love it. It's a very technical game. It's also extremely physical and is a form of full contact grappling. Its nature of practising against a resisting opponent (like boxing, bjj, wrestling, muai-thai) also makes it one of the more effective non-weapon martial arts out there. Moreso than karate, aikido, TKD etc (if you disagree, ask the lads on the martial arts boards, theyll put you straight). Though inspite of this it can still be practised by young and old, men and women.

I joined last year and went afew times, but I didn't like being in a small squash court, seemed dangerous. I think Alonzo was there last year, as well as another guy. Thick north dublin accent. I quite like the idea of doing something very physical, and getting in shape that way. Less for self defence and more about getting fit. There was no chance of me doing it if they where still in that squash courts. but hell Might give it a short again if their in the main hall.

ApeXaviour

Sparks wrote:

Er, Ape - you do remember that Kano didn't intend Judo to be a martial art but a sport, right?

I do, and it is a sport. But look at it for chris' sake! It's a martial sport..

Sparks wrote:

(and yes, if you want to beat the crap out of someone, aikido's not the one you want. Of course, if you want to do something that's fun, gives you a great deal of mental focus, agility and flexibility, and which teaches you how to fall correctly - sorry Axe, I've seen TCD judoka fall and it's painful to watch by comparison

To the untrained eye it does look painful. I can assure you though it's not. The first and most significant thing you learn in Judo is how to fall correctly. If you have forward momentum you roll, if not you "breakfall" (this technique creates a noise that can be misinterpreted). It's different from aikido in the sense you aren't letting yourself fall, you are being thrown entirely against your will and thus have little control. I would even go as far to say that if you were falling realistically, this is how you would fall (little control). I for one would rather judo experience than aikido in this situation.
Only recently I was sparring with a 60yo and I chucked him right proper. He jumped right back up ready to start again not a bother.. Go to a session just to watch and you'll see example after example after example.. They're not "toughened" to it by any stretch. Judokas just no how to fall correctly when being forced to the ground!

Judo also gives you mental focus, agility and flexibility. And tbh, competing in it is possibly the most fun I've ever had in my entire life..

Sparks

To the untrained eye it does look painful.

I meant that to someone who spent four years learning how to take ukemi, that judo ukemi looks very, well, primitive and basic by comparison. Trust me, go watch some of the aikidoka, especially the more advanced students, taking ukemi from some of the more extreme throws like kotegaeshi and you'll see what I mean. Neither judoka nor aikidoka get injured - but it just seems that the aikido ukemi is more flowing than the judo ukemi.