[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Yes, and there is a big difference between being friendly and being a doormat.

100% agree!

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Robojo

The problem is any time someone goes to use the sports pool it's full of volleyball players. The village just killed my dream of swimming laps every morning cause I can't get up at the crack of dawn to do it

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.

[Velvet]

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

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by SaucyJim

There are schedules. I've NEVER gone to a sport pool full of volleyball players because I don't go to sports pools WHEN VOLLEYBALL IS SCHEDULED.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. LOL!

There are many open swim and lap swim opportunities. Rumor has it, most of us (not me - yet) are fully retired. Work with the schedules that exist and try to be flexible. You are retired, after all, right?

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.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Velvet

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

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

[Red Rose]

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.

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

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

My Kawasaki 6R would get water logged.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

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.

Totally agree, good points and post!

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by VApeople

That statement is "mostly" true, but not always.

The pool at Cattail is a family pool located at a postal station.

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 !

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by Red Rose

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.

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.

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

If you see this happen and have your phone, video it, zoom in on the leaders then pass it up the line. Maybe show it here on TOTV.

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 !

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by TomDTV

Swimming in any pool other than sports pools is almost impossible. As others have said, the adult or family pools are pretty much for socializing. I tried swimming in adult pool when I first got here 2 years ago and while people didn't care, I had to dodge them as they were walking.

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.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Laura T.

Thank, it is. It's the Moultrie Creek Recreation Center ADULT pool. I actually chose my home in relation to it's location because swimming is one of the few things I can physically do after back surgery years ago. I can't enjoy most other sports here, but am satisfied to use the pool, walk, golf cart, shop eat and party!

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.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

That’s a legitimate problem, lap swimmers are typically only allocated swimming time either at the crack of dawn, or dusk (especially after the clocks get moved back an hour). And even then, it’s often combo swim time where only half the pool has lanes and water walkers sometimes use the swim lanes.

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

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Velvet

I didn’t say or mean to say you can’t swim in adult pools, perhaps I was not clear, only that you can’t make yourself into a nuisance. I swim in the adult pools regularly myself, just carefully so I don’t disturb the others in the water. If I want to practice speed swimming etc (having been on the swim team for many years) I do it when the pool is empty. And it is considered socializing as you walk and talk in the pools which we often do just like strolling with your family on the street. Light aerobics rarely bothers anyone, you are usually doing it in one spot. Swimming is hard to do without splashing and in one spot.

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.