As I mentioned in my first posting, we'll be new to Sao Paulo at the end of July. Are there some clubs my wife and I might look at joining? I am American and my wife is originally from China.

http://clubespac.wordpress.com/ is very interesting.

Clube Atlético Pinheiros, Clube Harmonia and Clube Atlético Paulistano are wonderfully equipped, although rather selective in terms of accepting new members and costs involved.

Oh, I almost forgot to suggest Clube Paineiras and Clube Atlético Indiano (where I used to go when I was a kid, decades ago).

Thank you Regina - So grateful for your reply.
Will we fit in as our Portuguese may not be fluent when we arrive? We may stumble a bit and don't want to upset anyone with our lack of language ability.

I don't think language will be the main problem. AQnyway, a club is not among the first priorities when you are ssettling in a new territory and many people will be glad to offer you other suggestions concerning clubs they go to.

In case you want a more reasonable cost-benefit choice maybe you should consider a visit to our local YMCA, which we call ACM - associação atlética de moços,, for the whole family, espcially the units located in Lapa and Pinheiros. The one downtown is kind of requiring maintainance in some aspects of its facilities.

Thanks very much, you've put us at ease for the time being.