Where to practice an individual sport Amiens

An enormous building, which has been displaying its 3,000 m² in the centre of Amiens for more than 20 years. Here, you will be able to eliminate the calories accumulated in the same waters as the greatest Olympic champions. Enough to be motivated! You will also be able to take out your ice skates, trainers, swimsuit and tennis racket. There are two ice rinks in the building, which can be transformed into a tennis hall or a handball court from time to time. There is also an Olympic swimming pool (50 m x 20 m) renovated at the end of 2019, a gymnasium, a judo dojo, a weightlifting room and an outdoor stadium with a mini synthetic football pitch. No more excuses for not doing sports!

Top start: !-sur-Noye water plan! This 31-kilometre cycle circuit - which you can rest assured of, only partially - invites you to discover the natural and architectural heritage of this little sum of the Somme. In the programme: The Faloise and its traditional houses, Chirmont, Sourdon and its chapel Saint-Aubin, Quiry-le-Sec, well known for its long palm game, or Folleville, the ruins of its castle and its church classified as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Back to good port, if time allows, break why not your moment sporting by a boat session!

Tariff: free.

Distance: 31 km in total.

Difficulty: pretty easy.

Markup: marked circuit and ATV-FFC.

Roller Skating amiénois is a roller hockey school, but also roller in line and initiation to slalom. It also offers hikes. The courses and demonstrations take place at the Gymnase Gymnasium, rue de la Veillère in Amiens or Au. But RSA is known mainly for its emblematic club: the squirrels practising hockey roller and finished in 2009/2010 vice-champions of France and who this year participated in the European Cup. A beautiful reussite for this amiénoise team. Roller hockey is hockey on roller with a pail and cross ice hockey.

This association promotes. hiking. The word piésente refers to a pedestrian trail or better, a pedestrian trail. It is possible to take part in the first hike before joining the association. There are four hiking levels (leisurely hiking at 3,5 to 4 km/h, invigorating hiking at 4,5 to 5 km/h, more tonic hiking at a speed of more than 5 km/h and finally sporty hiking at a speed of about 6 km/h). Weekends and stays are arranged. You will find the entire program on the association's website.

The master word of this climbing club is good fun. Here we discover a sport that mêle and joie de vivre. On the climbing walls of the Gymnase gymnasium, you can reach peaks and then go to the cliffs of the Picardy coast. It is also called climbing, varappe. Originally, this sport was regarded as the training of mountaineering, not as a real discipline. To practice you must be major. The club also lends the equipment, if necessary.

The association Amiens Weight-lifting Apparatus is centenary and has nearly 150 bachelors throughout Picardy as it is also the headquarters of the comité régional weight-lifting of Picardie. You will find weight-lifting of course, but also for beginners of the weight training with all week. Children can start from 13 years. A friendly club where it is good to be found around a passion common or just to be maintained in shape by raising weights.

Badminton is an ancestral game even if its origins are unclear. The leading badminton nations in Asia (China, Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia) are in the same region, but if you want to restore the French image, come to this club, which has 250 members. Group lessons take place in the evenings and on Sunday mornings in municipal facilities, both at the Auguste Janvier gymnasium and at the Halle des 4 chênes. The championships take place throughout the year. This sport, which is accessible to all, is practised from the age of 5.

Without competition, this martial art distilling defence techniques for every person, for every situation that may arise on a daily basis. Its particularity is that it allows us to learn the notion of discernment: when and how to react. It is convenient for recharge. This sport adapts to morphologies and personalities, because the relationship between mental and physical is very important. Like judo, we pass grades. Children can begin the practice of this sport from age 8.

Jean-Pierre Horri, President of the Ligue League of Aikido and Treasurer of the National Federation of Aikido, is now 4 th Dan. It offers training twice a week for adults on Tuesday and Thursday and Tuesday and Wednesday for children from 7 years old, Tuesday evening and Thursday evening at the Gustave Charpentier gymnasium and Monday morning at the Sports and leisure area of Camon. Aikido and nothing else, despite the name that may be confusing. The association is very active and has created, in particular, a TV channel you tube and a blog. 

Do you know what rank is highest in judo? Unlike the ideas received, the black belt is "only" the 10 th level of a hierarchy that counts 19. The highest distinction, the 10 th dan, is represented by a red belt that you get after decades of experience. France has two judokas 9 th dan. Frédéric Bourgoin, 5 th dan, took over the torch of his father Michel, 8 th dan, who created the club in 1964. Judo is taught at the age of 6 and the jiu-jujitsu (judo mix, karate, aikido called paraphrase self-defence, martial art for which there are no competitions) from the age of 12. 

From the sea Front of Fort Mahon, leave the beach towards the north and follow it on 2,5 m. Climb on the dune to the right and embark on the sandy trail. Move next to a ruined blockhouse and continue straight away. Do not venture to the right or left. The trail leads to a car park near the equestrian centre. Follow the road on the right. At the discovery trail turn left, take a little more than one kilometre and go to the old Fort-Mahon twice. Take the road on the left 200 m and turn right. Continue right on the main street that goes back to the seafront.

This sports complex, now well known to the Amiens, allows the practice of squash, badminton, 3x3 football, paddle tennis and table tennis. The hall is very pleasant, spacious and bright. There is always a friendly atmosphere. Everyone is there to sweat and enjoy themselves. Note that the padel court is the only one in France to be made of wood and glass walls. Usually the grounds are made of walls and fences, which can sometimes give an impression of confinement. Here, don't worry, you can breathe! And this transparency also allows the curious to observe this sport already practiced by two million players. It's up to you!