Five Oak Green Hoppers Sports Club
Welcome to the FOG Hoppers website!
This is the website of the Five Oak Green Hoppers Sports club. The site includes club and branch news, records, membership details, session details and all the information about the club that you would like to know.
There are a host of different ways to contact us but if you use the contacts page, we will get your message really quickly. Let us know if you want anything added to the site, want to have more information or disagree with something said.
The FOG Hoppers are supported by RWK Bicycles.
There are a host of different ways to contact us but if you use the contacts page, we will get your message really quickly. Let us know if you want anything added to the site, want to have more information or disagree with something said.
The FOG Hoppers are supported by RWK Bicycles.
The FOG Hoppers on facebook
The FOG Hoppers now have a facebook group. If you want to have a chat, look for planned events, discuss parts of the club, add photographs and videos, then please sign up and join in. To go to the group, then click here (or on the facebook logo next to this paragraph).
Recent events and publicity
FOG Hopper finswimmers took away a host of national titles at the 2011 British Finswimming Association Short Course Championships on 2nd April. Cassandra Hainsworth Graikowski and Alaric Smith took several titles, with Cassandra setting national records in the process.
The cycling branch took part in the 2011 Capel Fete and Parade. There are photographs here.
The Sunday rides are on as normal:- 2.30 pm, outside Southview.
The cycling branch took part in the 2011 Capel Fete and Parade. There are photographs here.
The Sunday rides are on as normal:- 2.30 pm, outside Southview.
How the Five Oak Green Hoppers Sports Club is organised
The FOG Hoppers SC is made up of several different branches. Each branch represents a sport or family of sports (for example, swimming covers pool and openwater swimming). There are club members (also known as full members) and branch members. Full membership is more expensive but allows for cheaper access to all of the sports (with the member only contributing to costs - NGB and insurance costs). Branch members only pay for the membership of a single branch, which is cheaper.
What is the Five Oak Green Hoppers Sports Club?
A brief description and history:
The Five Oak Green Hoppers Sports Club was set up in 1987 by two brothers who had just returned from West Africa to allow them and some friends to compete in sports in the United Kingdom. The brothers lived in Five Oak Green, in Kent, where the club is still based. It was also intended to allow local people more access to sports that the existing local sports clubs didn't.
Initially the members were invited to join and only paid National Governing Body fees and competition entry fees. Originally, the club only competed in Swimming, Waterpolo and Octopush (Underwater Hockey). However, since 1998, the club has focussed on the sport of Finswimming. It is, in terms of national records and national championship titles, the most successful finswimming club in Britain.
In 2010, its existing members voted unanimously to set up a branch structure, allowing the club to have a proper structure for all the sports that the members want to take part in. As a result, a community cycling branch was started.
Members have competed in a vast array of sports, including: swimming, waterpolo, triathlon octopush, finswimming, cycling, cricket, competitive lifesaving and cross country running. Members have competed at World, European and British Championship levels in several of these sports and have won many medals at British and British University Championship levels.
The Five Oak Green Hoppers Sports Club was set up in 1987 by two brothers who had just returned from West Africa to allow them and some friends to compete in sports in the United Kingdom. The brothers lived in Five Oak Green, in Kent, where the club is still based. It was also intended to allow local people more access to sports that the existing local sports clubs didn't.
Initially the members were invited to join and only paid National Governing Body fees and competition entry fees. Originally, the club only competed in Swimming, Waterpolo and Octopush (Underwater Hockey). However, since 1998, the club has focussed on the sport of Finswimming. It is, in terms of national records and national championship titles, the most successful finswimming club in Britain.
In 2010, its existing members voted unanimously to set up a branch structure, allowing the club to have a proper structure for all the sports that the members want to take part in. As a result, a community cycling branch was started.
Members have competed in a vast array of sports, including: swimming, waterpolo, triathlon octopush, finswimming, cycling, cricket, competitive lifesaving and cross country running. Members have competed at World, European and British Championship levels in several of these sports and have won many medals at British and British University Championship levels.
