Any pool connected to the Reston Virginia Association should well be ignored. Recently I went to their North Shore pool and did a back dive off of a highboard. Apparently it was not permitted. Earlier on, I did a front flip off of their low board at Lake Thoreau, it was apparently not permitted. Mind you, I grew up here, so these rules and regulations are new, uncited and not able to be found anywhere. I looked on the internet, everywhere and no where is rules not permitting common 'flips' and 'dives' to be found. Apparently, it may be their choice to avoid getting sued, or having a major problem with a child. But for adults? That's ridiculous. Stay away. Maybe in the future if they changed their regulations to say adults only can do flips I would understand. Until then, due to them maybe getting sued in the past by some man baby one should not take privilege in going to a fascist government owned pool environment, namely RA.
I did get into an accident with a stretched muscle at one of their pools back in 2014, however, it was due to several attempted backflips. One, I landed on my back several times. This was a perfect backflip, then land at Lake Thoreau. I got home that day and the muscle spasm occurred where I could not walk for approx 24 hrs. Interestingly out of all the pools, Lake Thoreau warned me a year later on doing this so-called 'flip' first. Two, the factors involved were infact due to that backflip failing many times at a different pool, with the lifeguard avoiding it. However, that is a nomenclature. The previous days of that particular week, I went to lake Audubon, so the muscle was softening on my attempts overthere actually. When, infact I pulled off the backflip I tried again. Here, the factor was Lake Audubon, for not loosening their board. Actually Glade had not loosened their board in previous years as well in an attempt to flaw the occupants at diving perhaps, or 'save the children.' Hunter's woods pool also warned me of this 'flip' off of a diving board routine. The board at lake Audubon is infact stiff as a rock. So the incident was connected to that pool in particular. Basically, you shouldn't have a board without a spring. I was not able to do a backflip on that board at the time. It is the reason of my stretched muscle in 2014. Meaning the incident could have been avoided back then. Why now? If I am able to pull off a flip and land it that should not be a reason for a whistle.
I think you should blow the whistle on poorly made dives. Such as failed flips. Because that is infact dangerous, and its almost like landing on hard ground at times. If someone can pull a flip off, then there is no reason to blow a whistle. A stretched muscle is next to a tear which leads to paralysis. And yes, one would be able to get that, if they were to land on their back many times. I did various failed flips with no whistle to prove it.
If I do a front dive at Lake Audubon, and I am a child, or overweight. Considering the factors, it would amount to a bellyflop. Due to the board not being correctly adjusted for many years. Now, there has been complaints that go back to 1993 about the pool, and its sanitation. One, there was a public water fountain that started getting people sick. This is not personal. But the plugged water fountain appears there til this day as a memorandum. I have nothing against RA in general, I just think that regulations on the internet or their community website are infact due.
They have improved though, a few years back occupants thought it would be funny to pull the leg of a slow swimmer to indicate he or she had to move. However sometimes they would just swim in the left lane for no purpose. Now they have signs for this European swimming etiquette and specifically for the occupants themselves. All though, I can't say much about the water contamination problem because it too has closed the pools numerous times. In more than a few occasions the bathrooms needed cleaning from feces on walls etc. It seems to me that the problem is not RA in general but the residents of RA. The pool was engineered badly, and only recently did Glade pool fix this. Lake Thoreau however was infact the primary cause and origin of my ability to not flip any more on the lowboards.
As for my problem with that back sprain or whatever, its a rare oddity caused not by the lifeguard staff but by the engineers of the diving board itself. No offense, but when you do a particular dive off of a board, you get no height. This particular board was Lake Audubon which sprained my back by pulling a muscle. Your body has to work at the dives more at this particular pool as if one needed an Olympic athlete to do a ground flip, but in general that is Lake Audubon's fault. For all the pools to comply against mischievous acts is ridiculous, yet to keep occupants in the dark with invisible rules because of your own engineering flaws is more ridiculous. read more
