100% agree!

Sorry to hear this. There is no reason ,other than maintenance or repair, that half the swim lanes can't be cordoned off for swimming. You can play volleyball on land, if you want to play. The ONLY place you can really swim is in the sports pool. What's next? Water basket ball, water, pickle ball, water golf, water baseball, water mahjong, water karate classes,. I can keep going.
The sports pools are the ONLY place in TV that you can Really, really Actually SWIM! The powers that be should and would, I hope, take that into serious consideration and ensure that swim lanes be kept open for swimmers from dawn to dusk every day.

I like the idea of “water Mah Jongg” I wonder if that would be classified as an “activity” hmmm?

Schedules were something you had to deal with when you were working. When you retire, you should be able to do things on YOUR Schedule most of the time.

Somehow I didn't picture you as a water-Mahjongg type. I envision you more of a water-🥷(ninja).

Exactly!! Well said. I have never come across an organized water activity at the Adult Pool at Mallory nor the Family Pool at Coconut Cove in the 19 years I’ve lived here. However, Sports Pools at Regional Rec Centers have organized programs and they have to have permission and have to have a regular day and time schedule provided to them by the Regional Rec center as well. You can’t just organize your own group, decide on a time and show up at an Adult nor a Family pool and turn away other people coming for socialization. It’s just not the way the system works.

My Kawasaki 6R would get water logged.

Totally agree, good points and post!

And THAT is part of the confusion I'm sure. There are exceptions to most of what seems to be a "pattern" concerning amenities in our community. NEW concepts are tried from time to time, some are picked up for repetition, some are one of a kind. I am sure it is very confusing for new residents ! It's the same with golf, and other amenities. Country clubs aside, the differences in "required" dress at various nine hole courses is really confusing, same with the wide differences in "allowed" on course conduct. Reading the pool rules someone posted from the .gov website, if you look at EVERY WORD carefully, it does NOT convey absolute adherence. Just like all the other language associated with amenities, is it couched with a language the conveys a kind of civil decency, cooperation, respect, politeness, and a common understanding that taking up an entire neighborhood adult pool for a sport or organized class is NOT what was intended.... but....again, if you read carefully on many of these types of things, the language used by the villages in their printed materials is actually more like "civil behavior suggestions", than anything narrowly, and legally, defined. This is how it reads to me: PLEASE ACT LIKE RESPONSIBLE AND POLITE ADULTS WHEN USING OUR COMMON AREAS ! Just my interpretation !

TOTALLY AGREE with you, you just omitted one word: "supposed". That is the was the "system" is SUPPOSED to work, but human beings can be very very self-serving and self-focused... and age sometimes (and in some people) seems to even increase the lack of awareness of others.

My natural instincts usually do not extend to that extent: pictures, videos, social media "shaming", but times have certainly changed as we all have experienced, and my opinion has also changed. It's very sad to accept, but that is the only thing that will cause "some people" to re-think their behavior, and, more and more even that seldom works. Pictures of people "taking over" pools, pictures people have taken of others from blocks away bringing their dogs to the property of another to "deposit", pictures of people biking 4 and more abreast on MMP's , do not necessarily change the behavior of some people. They simply have do shame. I think there is something much deeper going on, a total cultural change that has roots in acceptable civil/social behavior. My own observation was this began long before the "pandemic", but certainly accelerated at a mind boggling rate during that period. Definite cultural shift. Having said that, I do believe it is "worth" a change to post such behaviors !

Adult pools do not have the lane markings on the bottom of the pool. When swimming laps, I use those lines to alert me when I'm coming to the end of the pool. I would never attempt to swim in the adult pools; I swim laps only in the sports pools.

Too bad you want to use a neighborhood pool to swim. Most people who want to just lounge around with a noodle in the adult neighborhood pools don't like it when people swim in those pools. Swimming is done in the sports pools. You have a swim lane to yourself or maybe share with on other person if the lanes are full. As I said in an earlier post, neighborhood pools do not have the lane markings on the bottom of the pool. Unless I do a dog paddle when my head is above water all the time, I could never swim in a neighborhood pool. And......I don't care to dog paddle. I prefer to do the freestyle stroke when swimming laps.

Lap swimmers can ask any walkers to vacate the swim lanes. The swim lanes are swimming laps, NOT water walking. Thank you.

How do you practice speed swimming in an adult pool, even if the pool is totally empty? I would slam my head into the side of the pool without those markings on the bottom of the pool.