Bridge: Have Fun and Improve Your Memory!

Bridge: Have Fun and Improve Your Memory!

Where are my car keys? I can’t remember my brother’s phone number! What was I supposed to get at the grocery store? The fear that our memory is slipping or eroding is on the minds of most of us. I have two choices. I can live with that fear every day or I can choose to fight it at every opportunity.

The speed with which your brain processes information slows down with age. However, Professor Marion Diamond, Director of Lawrence Hall of Science at Berkeley University, in a major discovery, believes that “with proper stimulation, the brain can continue to develop at any age – has revolutionized our thinking about aging by emphasizing the importance of growth and learning throughout life.”

Professor Diamond was asked whether she thought that learning to play bridge would constitute stimulation. “Absolutely,” she replied. “Learning any new hobby and continuing the education process will stimulate the brain and the game of bridge would be a fun way to do it.” For many years, Diamond has been enthusiastically promoting her “use it or lose it” theory, encouraging her students to remain active, mentally as well as physically, for the rest of their lives.

Bridge has been proven to increase memory and concentration skills and helps to develop improved judgment and logic. It is low in cost and will help increase your social opportunities, providing you with the chance to meet other people, travel, make new friends with whom to attend social functions and more! You will have so much fun you won’t even remember that its’ actually good for you. Painless memory therapy – what a concept!

The Agile Bridge Club is offering four FREE Beginning Bridge lessons to introduce you to this fabulous pastime. The lessons are for beginners and people returning to bridge after some years, or social players who want to learn modern bridge. They will held every Thursday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, from 12:15pm to 2:30pm starting October 5. The classes will be provided FREE for the first four weeks. You’ll be playing bridge your very first day and meeting other new players in the community. These lessons are open to everyone and every age (bridge is currently experiencing a growth spurt in some high schools even elementary schools) so bring all your friends and family with you and learn together. If you need a partner, someone will be there to play with you and fun is guaranteed every week! Free parking and free refreshments. The Immanuel Lutheran Church is at 706 Knob Hill in Redondo Beach, between PCH and Prospect. To register or for more information, call Bridge Ambassador Jeff Grotenhuis at (310) 600-4275 or email to jeffgro@gmail.com. Surf www.agilebridgeclub.com for maps and other bridge games and classes.