I recently moved to an "active adult" community, basically to get away from kids. Love them, but was tired of dealing with them in the pool I used to swim in. To my surprise, the first day in my new pool (which is almost 25 yards!), I was approached about my "fins" and "kickboard." It seems the pool "rules" prohibit large flotation devices. My kickboard is 17" long. The Board then decided to prohibit fins.. I am fuming. :bitching: I can't even fight it because, conveniently, the board doesn't meet until September! I swim in the morning, and there is NO ONE in the pool. My fins are also short fins. They ruled them as "hazardous." Did you ever hear of anything so insane???? Yes, I could swim without them, but a great deal of my 3600 yard workout includes those items. The irony is that the pool is hardly used, unless the weather is over 90 and the water over 85. UGGGHHHHH.
I had to join an outdoor pool and PAY (even though I pay plenty in the "active adult" community per month in association dues) for the summer, and as my prior thread whines, 2 weeks later, I received a whopping sinus infection. I'm ready to quit swimming.
As Glenn states, get on the board. My wife is on our board, and we're ensuring all the little nitpickers and Mrs Grundy's in the neighborhood get out of other people's business when they simply want a curtain color other than white.
With respect to your specific problem, I find it interesting. Paul Newsome of Swim Smooth says that in Australia (or is the UK) there are indoor lap pools that ban fins for some strange reason. I don't get it. He said to combat that, one way is to present to the pool administration (so perhaps to your HOA) the training benefits of using fins and boards.
Alternatively, you can someone create an incident with a noodle and act like those World Cup athletes and threaten a lawsuit...
As Glenn states, get on the board. My wife is on our board, and we're ensuring all the little nitpickers and Mrs Grundy's in the neighborhood get out of other people's business when they simply want a curtain color other than white.
With respect to your specific problem, I find it interesting. Paul Newsome of Swim Smooth says that in Australia (or is the UK) there are indoor lap pools that ban fins for some strange reason. I don't get it. He said to combat that, one way is to present to the pool administration (so perhaps to your HOA) the training benefits of using fins and boards.
Alternatively, you can someone create an incident with a noodle and act like those World Cup athletes and threaten a lawsuit...
