Practical self defence taught in a supportive atmosphere, from instructors to all students, you…read morealways receive the help and advise you need to achieve your goals.

Good club, good group of people to train with. Grove Martial Arts is the result of 3 generations of…read moremartial arts and boasts top of the range imact reduction gear and continued instructor development. A modest club with growing numbers.

The Ozone health club is quite a large complex, near the Kassam Stadium. Has a large free car park…read more The gym is quite spacious, new equipments gym with TV screens on some of the machines, which is great, there is also a spinning studio which is used for classes with an instructor. There are 2 aerobic studios which are used for teaching various classes such as body combat, body attack, step, pilates, body balance. I recommend the Step class - a really good work out! All the instructions are good though. There is a swimming pool, sauna, steam room and spa. When you become a member you get several sessions with a personal trainer to sort out a programme, they are really friendly and helpful. They also have open weekends for the public, if you want to test out the facilities. Sometimes there are promotions when you can bring guests along and get day passes. The gym does get quite busy in the evenings, but day time isn't so bad. Lovely place to workout! The prices are quite reasonable and competitive.

Superb club set in a easy to reach location. I have just joined and the staff were fantastic…read more Really enthusiastic and helpful which makes a change to the bigger clubs in Oxford who just want to take your money. I left Esporta 2 years ago due to customer service levels and couldnt be happier that I moved clubs. I would definately recommend it.

Oxford City SKC is a fantastic club. With top class instruction from both our Sensei's, who are…read moreextremely knowledgable, and great at delivering the information needed to understand what is required. producing many black belts, champions and even England squad members the club has really gathered momentum over the last few years! The latest national championships saw 21 competitors attending from Oxford City SKC, attaining many medals across the board bronze, silver and golds. There has also developed a fantastic social side to the club too with regular post training get together. Everyone is super supportive and helpful in and out of the dojo. Being affiliated to the Japan karate association adds a real sense of belonging and an air of prestige. The JKA founded in 1955, is the longest standing official Shotokan karate body, recognised by the Japanese ministry of education as a corporation in 1958. It is regarded as the gold standard of Shotokan karate. JKA England founded 20 years ago after the passing of Enoeda Sensei and the split between JKA and KUGB ( karate union of Great Britain). The association has gone from stretch to strength Headed by Ohta Sensei 7th Dan and a technical committee of highly experienced karateka. Putting on regional, national and international courses with visiting Japanese instructors twice a year. As well as tournaments, instructor, examined and referee courses and regular gradings. it really stands up to the reputation of gold standard. Highly recommend joining one of the Oxford city dojos.

The gym here is average, everything you need to workout i guess but nothing too fancy and not a…read morehuge abundance of equipment. The staff are fairly helpful but not the most professional that i have come across. The steam room and sauna are good and fairly priced and do what they say on the tin :) whatever that is :) The swimming pool is good. There are big changing rooms (separate ones for men and woman of course) with individual changing rooms for the more self conscious. There is also a baby changing unit and some hairdryers which are free (or were when i last went!) The swimming pool itself is rectanular with no fancy slides or anything but it is a good size. Its 50m with a gradual depth change. there are segregated lanes - both slow and fast for the differing degree of swimmer. That being. people can swim lengths without drifters getting in the way - and visa versa. Infact this pool is especially good if you are trying to exercise. Its usually a good temperature- not too hot or cold.

The swimming pool(50m) is clean and well maintained, and if youve a got a health certificate or on…read morebenefits or pay for it you can get a slice card which'll reduce the price of using any of the facilities to £1.20. Theres an ok'ish gym with a few treadmills, a couple of bikes and the usual array of weight machines. The sauna and the steam room are ok as well, if youre into that type of thing.

Westminster Sports Centre is open to everyone - not just students from brookes! Also its not one of…read morethose gyms that is only open to members - you can buy a single swim or gym session without signing up to a membership! Its one of the cheapest gyms i've been to and the by far the friendliest. It has a number of facilities, including a 25m swimming pool, a 55 station gym, two squash courts, a large meeting/training room, badminton facilities, basket ball facilities, a number of tennis courts, 6 outdoor pitches and an 18 hole golf course. The pricing of the memberships are very competitive. Don't expect to pay more than about £25 per month for most if not all of the facilities. Locals get discounts (as well as service men & women) and can knock up to a quarter of the price. Prices range from £16 to £48 per moth depending on the degree to which you wish to use the facilities. Phone up to check availability. The swimming pool is kept to about 30.5 degrees centigrade. The gym is large and spacious and airy. It can get a little hot later into the evening but there is air conditioning (which i've been told is being improved). The squash courts are the best i've played in. The centre offers a number of classes that can be found on their website, including spinning which is well run and is usually in the air-conditioned training room. The staff are friendly and are always up for a good chat! Its always nice to come in from a long day at work and see a smiling happy manager behind reception. The place is kept clean and tidy by a team of dedicated lifeguards and cleaners who if asked will always help you out. There are only a few negatives: the car park at the moment is a hassle - as i gather it, the university don't like people parking and have a barrier system in place. The bad side of this deter ant on us as customers is that we have to get a token from reception, for every time you use the facilities. This is a hassle to begin with but you get used to it. If you don't think you'd like this then you can always ride your bike/moped/push bike to the centre; which provides bike storage by the barrier to the car park. Or alternatively you could catch the U1, which stops on the campus by the teaching facilities. The other negative is that sometimes its frustrating to see managers or reception staff sat behind reception doing nothing (browsing facebook/ playing games/ texting) whilst the cleaners are in the gym, and the lifeguards on poolside. Admittedly the centre is never that busy, but its plain to see there are jobs to be done to tidy the place up a bit. If not just in the reception area? Anyway over all its a great little centre that not that many people know about and really has a family/friendly feel to it. I would definitely recommend it and its always there to try.

It's a big shame, but it has been ruined. My children have both used the swimming lessons there for…read moreyears very happily. Unfortunately, there is a new incompetent manager (Stuart McC) there. When my daughter progressed to the end of the swimming lessons with 2 lessons to go, we informed Stuart that we would like the refund for 4 lessons that were still pre paid. He explained that nothing could be done about the 2 lessons that were for the end of the course (fair enough). However, he could refund the remaining 2 lessons....in 57 days time at the earliest because he was 'short staffed'. I have been a manager for years and this does not wash. When produced with a letter he signed himself saying that you could get a refund, I received a nonsense email filled with bluff, jargon and no substance. Still curious as to whether it will take 57 days to get a £16.00 refund. Personally, I wouldn't sign up to any sports membership here whilst this incompetent manager is in charge, unless you want to find yourself in this situation over any membership fees.

So this is where it all started...the beginning of a rather bizarre love with swimming pools as a…read moreplace for fun - the memories of youth - I remember the excitement when this leisure pool originally opened in 1976 - it wasn't a rectangle it was round! What was this madness? Half the pool was too shallow to actually swim in and it had waves. This was the very first time I had encountered a "leisure" pool - oh trend setting, thoroughly modern Swindon you have so much to answer for - (along with the famed "magic roundabout"). I still return here with the kids every time we jump on a train to visit my wife's family. It is a great pool but looking distinctly tatty round the edges now. The domed roof desperately needs renewing - it looked spectacular 30 years ago but putting that aside its still super fun. The pool itself is beach style with a separate small kids pool. Good kids pool with 3 slides plus pirate ship.... The main pool has a steep three lane multislide and a new long slide circles inside the building (77m long). But really it is the flumes here that count and these are top. The Domebusters have a had a refurb this year and one of them has been replaced. All are approx 100m in length.So first off The Sidewinder A fairly gentle, spiralling flume aimed at younger children and parents. You can sit or go head first. The Great White My favourite - heads first ONLY never seen that on any other slide! Normally feet first everywhere.... A fast ride with two small vertical drops and several twists and turns. The Storm The new this year straight fast flume - small circumference with a striped lighting effect and sounds.. Didn't get to try this out this time - but will be back to do so....busy with an under 5... The session time was only an hour - which is really not long enough and it is fairly expensive considering the stingy hour. There are not many reasons to visit Swindon but this is definitely one if you are a water slide fan or the kids love to swim. . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update So I came back to try out the new flume which I hadn't managed to try out last time. Managed to slip away from a family visit for a couple of hours with my teenagers. Interestingly GLL have taken over the management of the leisure centre since we were here in 2012 (they run most of the pools we visit in London). It had been spruced up a bit with the new corporate livery...but still the stingy session times. We took no notice of the session times and made good use of the domebuster slides. So The Storm was the main attraction - small tube, dark, with striped lightning and fast with the descent as a helix. A big thumbs up from the family - a great slide but not in our top 5 slides. The Great White remains the favourite - head first you can pick up some proper speed and fly over the steepest vertical drops... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oasis is a great place to take the family swimming! They have a huge laguna pool that boasts water…read moreslides, a wave machine, a smaller pool for the children and a big water sprayer. They do a range of different classes such as mother and baby Swimming, OAP Swimming and also offer swimming lessons. They have also just started doing gigs with people such as 'The Sugababes' 'Cascada' and 'Shayne Ward' perfoming there.

Great places with lots of facilities and clubs to join from football to athletics. Theres even a barread more

A great example of a private gym and golf club. I've got no experience of what the golfing side is…read morelike, but the fitness side is brilliant. There is a 20m pool together with two spa/hydro pools - the biggest spa pool I've ever seen which can easily fit 20 people and would put most spa resorts facilities to shame. Also available is a sauna and steam room, there are cooler sauna's located in the male and female changing areas. The changing areas are always clean, they have digital lockers so you simply go in and pick a locker. No need to wander around with a key on your wrist. The gym is spacious with loads of CV kit, weight machines and free weights. Every CV item has a view of the TV screens and the running machines also get a view out over the golf course! I like the cardio theatre environment where you can plug yourself into the TV screens. The cycles are especially good as they have individaul TV screens, although beware that you have to keep cycling to watch TV! They do loads of classes as well, there are two studios and a specific spinning studio. All in all a very good environment - shame you have to pay a few quid for it!

This place might be great for a visit, but it is not a place to stay for mor than one night.read more