Hmmm..
I have been a bit critical of gliders, and the possibility of bumping into one on route in my ATL. Seems like a good time to turn up at a gliding club with a more humble attitude, and ask to be shown how to use the footrests properly! (ATLs have a vee tail and automaticaly yaw into turns)
My experience of gliding clubs is similar to horse riding. If you turn up and pay to ride a horse..thats what you get. But if you help with the mucking out and putting on the tack you become part of a friendly community. To my shame I landed once at Aston Down thinking it was Kemble! It cost me a lot of beers in the gliding club bar that evening, but what a wonderful friendly group of enthusiastic people I met there.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
MG