Recreation

Every couple of weeks, I embrace my personal mantra: getting punched in the face to bring me back to reality. This peculiar ritual unfolds during open sparring sessions at Hill Street Boxing in Southampton, where participants, armed with some experience, a willingness to sign a waiver, and perhaps a touch of craziness, step into a full boxing ring...

Future Stars Tennis Club is quickly making its way to becoming the one-stop-shop for all things tennis in the Hamptons. Founded in 2012, Future Stars Tennis Club opened as a year-round branch of Future Stars Summer Camps, created by Charlie Vandercook in 1980. While Future Stars Camps and Tennis Club share the same division of land as the...

Located in a renovated potato barn in Water Mill is an unbelievably beautiful gym called Core Dynamics. The ceilings are impressively high, the equipment is state-of-the-art, and the entire gym sparkles due to its exceptional cleanliness. When I first heard about Core Dynamics from a friend, I immediately assumed it was out of my price range. Gyms with...

Sometimes, you just have to get your ass kicked to remind you who you are. CrossFit has the answer for this in Southampton, located inside the Hamptons Gym Corp, where Southampton's CrossFit is alive and well, offering workouts nearly every day of the week. On an absolute whim, thanks to Saunders & Associates real estate agent Vincent Pescatore,...

This month, we’ll be spending some time exploring the history of two more prominent Hamptons golf courses, Maidstone Club and Noyac Golf Club. Maidstone Club is located in East Hampton and consists of an 18-hole and 9-hole course and a private beach club, pool, tennis court, and clubhouse. Noyac Golf Club is located in Sag Harbor on 144...

Buckskill Ice Rink 178 Buckskill Road, East Hampton   Buckskill offers a wide array of family activities including: public ice skating and skate rentals; U.S.F.S.A. figure skating programmes; junior and adult ice hockey programs; private skating lessons and group skating lessons; birthday parties, private parties, teen nights and much more! Their ice rink is also available for private...

Last month, we covered the history behind Shinnecock Hills Golf Club and the National Golf Links of America. This month, we’re going to dive into two other prestigious clubs on the east end. Just down the road from SHGC and NGLA is Southampton Golf Club, and get this: it was designed by Seth Raynor, a good friend of...

Ralph Ruiz is an enthusiastic advocate of CrossFit, and he believes that Southampton Gym offers a fantastic fitness facility due to its strong community. He emphasizes the quality of workouts and programming available at the gym and praises its convenient location. Southampton Gym is situated at the Southampton Jitney location on 395 County Road 39A, Southampton, New York...

Just as trendy on the outside as it is on the inside, New York Pilates is taking over The Hamptons workout scene one town at a time. As you walk into any of their 4 Hamptons studios, you’re met with a mirror shaped like one of those trendy New York City bar signs that lets you know what...

The annual Shelter Island 5K Run/Walk in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month will take place Saturday, October 21st at 11 a.m. rain or shine at Crescent Beach. Registration will be $40 for both walkers and runners, kids 12 and under are $20. Participants will receive T-shirts, bibs, post-race refreshments, food, awards and a complimentary bbq (while supplies...