Discover new sports all year round for almost no cost

The University for which you will enroll, if you are admitted to the DUETI in Groningen is Hanze University. This University has on its largest campus a huge sports complex that offers students the opportunity to practice a wide variety of sports and sometimes even at a high level for almost no expense. This is what I will tell you about in this article, since I was able to enjoy it all year round and practice no less than 5 different sports for a total cost of 50 euros.

The Aclo sports complex at Hanze University is located 3 minutes by bike from the main campus. So I got used to go there after my school day.

First of all, it is possible to join clubs to do competitions. The sports on offer are so diverse that it is impossible to list everything, but it covers almost every possible and imaginable sport. I let you check by yourself (https://www.aclosport.nl/en/).

However, even if the cost of joining the clubs is low (130 euros per year for an MMA club for example), it is not this formula that I will mention because it exceeds the budget announced in my introduction but also because it is not the formula that I have chosen.

Thus, Aclo offers a formula that allows you to register for different sports spread over the whole week. For that, you just need to buy the aclo card for an amount of 50 euros for one year. Then the platform offers you to book sessions of 10 lessons, by simply paying a deposit of 10 euros that you can recover at the end.

Thanks to this, all year round, I was able to book krav maga and boxing lessons, two sports I already practiced in France. However, it also allowed me to discover new sports. So I have enrolled in squash (which is very typical in the Netherlands), fencing and grappling (MMA derivative) classes.

To conclude, this formula is very advantageous because it is very affordable and allows you to discover sports for short periods of time. If you don't like it, you can change your sport at the end of your 10 lessons, but if you have fallen in love with the sport (for me the great discovery was squash), you can do it again all year long.

Finally, don't forget that the Erasmus year is an opportunity to carve yourself a steel body. What better way to achieve your summer body objectives than in a varied and affordable sports complex?