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Learning Overview

Waverley Bridge Club provides a program of complementary learning opportunities that allow new players the opportunity to gradually acquire the skills and confidence to play duplicate bridge.

 

Following your Beginners’ course, you move on to Supervised Lessons. This is a non-competitive session with an emphasis on practice in order to gain a greater degree of confidence.  It provides relaxed environment and there is no requirement to understand the mechanics of playing in a duplicate session. A Supervised Lesson promotes discussion of both bidding and play techniques amongst players and the teacher. It also offers the opportunity for players to learn the scoring system which is integral to the game.  They are designed to reinforce specific parts of the Standard American bidding system.

Once you are comfortable with your system and playing techniques, the next step is Supervised Duplicate. This introduces the mechanics and etiquette of playing duplicate bridge. Bridge is a timed game and there are penalties if you do not complete each set of boards in the allowed timeframe. This session allows more time than a normal duplicate for each board and you must move at the end of a round. An important objective of this session is to simulate the conditions of a competitive duplicate session so talking between players is limited to the end of the play and should be done quietly.  This is a semi-competitive session and therefore the teacher will be available to answer questions but not teach at the table.  Lessons are not part of this session.

Once you are comfortable with the basics you can begin to expand your knowledge by attending the Improvers lessons.  These are individual lessons on specific topics and can be done as a one-off or a course.  The final step is to move to Duplicate at which the Director assigns the seating according experience levels wherever player numbers make it possible.

Bridge is continually changing and as a player you will want to extend your bridge knowledge at any time by attending workshops, lessons, and free clinics on specific topics that interest you  These avenues allow you to keep up with changes and extend your repertoire of playing techniques and conventions.