Træningsinformation (vinter 2024/2025)

Dear all, 

Please read the information below very carefully!

ACTION FOR ALL BREDDE PLAYERS: Please check if you have been allocated to a training group and confirm your spot by paying the training package NO LATER THAN Monday, the 16th of September kl. 23:59.

Note: In case of late payment, your place will go to a player on the waiting list.

The weekly schedule and the bredde training groups are now ready. 

Overall, SU has been in charge of preparing the training groups. SU, the Elite chef and the Youth Coordinator have prepared the weekly schedule (which has been approved by the Board) and allocated the club´s coaching staff. 

Important information for winter 2024-25:

• When: Start week 40-2024 and end week 18-2025 (included)
• Where: Hafnia Hallen (indoor), Valby

Everyone who would like to be a member of the club has to pay the club´s membership, equals to 165 kr/month. With it, members have the opportunity to (i) buy training packages, (ii) book courts for free with other members, and (iii) participate in club events (fx. Friday hygge mix). 

If you are allocated to a training group, you have to pay a training package on top of the membership fee. At the moment the club offers 2 training packages for bredde players:

• One weekly training: 700 DKK for the entire winter season
• Two weekly trainings: 1300 DKK for the entire winter season

Prices for the training packages have been set by the Board, according to the club's financial strategy.

The weekly schedule and the training groups for the winter season 2024-25 are shown here. 

This season trainings are planned on weekdays and weekends due to limited capacity and the airdome not yet being ready - this is a decision made by the board. 

Players have been allocated to the groups as follows:

• According to the following prioritisation order:
  1. Current members
  2. Returning members, first-registered first-allocated
  3. New members, first-registered first-allocated
  4.Late applicants waiting list, first-registered first-allocated (independently of being current/returning/new members)
• Based on the evaluation from the coaches, if one has been allocated to a training group during the summer season 2024
• Based on the last evaluation and/or experience with both indoor- and beach-volleyball indicated in the registration, if one is a former member or a new member of the club

Please note that only a number of players corresponding to maximum 8 players per court will be able to attend each training session (meaning up to 24 players for 3 courts, 16 players for 2 courts). A slightly higher number of players have been allocated to each group, based on historical data on attendance. During the season we will monitor the attendance of all groups and we will take actions and adjust if we see that players are not able to attend many training sessions in a row due to high attendance from the entire group. 

Please also note that the names of the groups are unchanged compared to this summer (2024) and two consecutive letters still don’t necessarily mean two different levels (fx. A and B). 

Please check if you got allocated to a training group. If yes, please read sections #4-5-6 and 7-Q2, and take actions. If not, please read section #7-Q1.

To accept the training offer, you need to pay the training package before Monday, the 16th of September kl. 23:59.

IMPORTANT: In case of late payment, you lose your spot in the training group and your place will go to a player on the waiting list.

In order to confirm you spot, please follow these steps: 

1. Go to our website and log in with your profile (or create a profile and log in)
2. Only for new and returning members: Pay the senior membership fee (monthly club membership fee) first 
3. Pay the training package for one session per week  or two sessions per week 
4. Check that you have added only 1 item to the shipping cart and the final price, before confirming the payment (‘check out’, and then ‘confirm’)

If you wish to decline the training offer or you are not able to participate in training this winter for any reason: It is VERY important that you write SU (su@cphbeach.dk) to inform us about it. In this way, we can give a spot to one of the many players on the waiting list.

If you have been allocated to a training group, once you have confirmed your spot (see section #4), you should join the Facebook group of your training group to receive information from your coach(es) and get in contact with your teammates.

The links to the Facebook groups are shown in the overview of the training groups.

Please note that the Facebook groups for winter trainings are the same of the one used this summer. So if you are allocated to the same group you don’t have to do anything, but if have been allocated another group compared to this summer please join the new one and leave the former group when the summer season is over. 

Note: If you have not been allocated to a training group or if you did not confirm your spot, no action is needed.

If you have been allocated to a training group and have accepted your spot (see section #4), once the season starts, you need to sign up to each training session. You can use our homepage or the Sportyfriends App: Find your training session under 'Trainings' in the calendar and sign up for a specific date.

Please note that all coaches have been encouraged to send players home who have not signed up for the specific training session.

Important information:

• Registration for a training session opens 14 days before and closes 24 hours before the training starts. 

• If the training session is fully booked, you can sign up anyway and you will be placed on a waiting list for that specific training session. In case one of the other players cancels prior training start, the players on the waiting list will be given a spot and receive an email notification about this.

Therefore, always REMEMBER to:

(i) Cancel in advance if you are prevented from participating. Always cancel on the webpage/Sportyfriends app if you are not able to go to a training you have signed up to.

(ii) Check your e-mail (incl. the spam folder) if you are on the waiting list for the practice. You might be lucky and able to join!

Note: If you have problems with signing up to a training session and the message says “You have reached your active signup limit”, please try to log in from the website (not the Sportyfriends app), empty your basket/shopping cart/indkøbskurv (icon on the top left) and then sign up again.

Once again this year, we have experienced massive interest in participation in weekly trainings, and we must therefore also announce that we unfortunately do not have spots for everyone who has shown interest. This especially affects returning members and new players who want to participate in the club's training, but who have not previously been a member of the club. 

If your name does not appear in any training group, we have unfortunately not been able to find a spot for you. You have already automatically been added to our waiting list and you do not need to take any further action for this.

If one or more players do not confirm their spot or drop out in the next weeks and/or during the season, leaving free spots in the training groups, then you will be contacted via e-mail by SU. Please check your emails regularly, including your spam folder.

In the meantime, you are still very welcome to join the club, become a member and book courts for free, participate in Friday's hygge mix (where all our members are very welcome and meet each other).

If you are not pleased with your group allocation (fx. if the specific training day doesn’t fit your private/work schedule, if your partner is allocated to another group, if you would like to be at a higher level, etc), you can contact us by email and explain the situation. However, please note that:

• At the beginning of the season only minor adjustments will be made, but, the more in the season, the more the coaches have evaluated the level of the group and SU has assessed available spots based on players attendance. 
• It is a case-by-case situation, it might take time (or not happening at all for the current season) as being moved up/down ultimately depends on availability of spots in the other groups and level fit.
• In general, it is easier to ask to be moved down to a lower level than a higher level. Please keep this in mind when you write us an email or when you make the decision below.

If you wish to be moved to a another group (higher or lower), at this point of the season (when season hasn’t started yet but you need to confirm/reject your spot in the next days) you have 2 options. You can either:

A) reject your spot, not pay the training package, and ask SU by email to be placed on the waiting list for the higher/lower level group. In this case, you are not allowed to join any training groups until SU contacts you if and when a spot becomes available for you. Note: it might take weeks, months or not happen at all (see above).

or 

B) accept your spot, pay the training package before the deadline (see above), join the training of the level you have been allocated to, and then ask SU by email to be placed on the waiting list of the higher/lower level. In this case, SU will contact you if and when a spot becomes available for you. If you chose this option it is important that you pay timely even though you have not received a reply from SU before the payment deadline.

At the moment, there are no early morning (6:30-8 am) trainings planned as no coaches have been given availability in this time range for the summer season.

If you know someone who could be interested in coaching early mornings, please contact SU - We would be very happy to set up morning sessions for all bredde players. 

However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t play in the early mornings. You can still do so by booking/using one of the free available courts.

• If you are unable to finish the season for various reasons (injury, pregnancy, personal circumstances, ...), please communicate this both to your coaches and to SU (su@cphbeach.dk).

• If you have any questions, please write us an email (su@cphbeach.dk). Please note that in case in the next week(s) we receive a higher volume of emails than our capacity of replying, we will prioritise the emails with requests whose answers are not already explained in this post; and reply to the rest afterwards.