Pool Session at Chinatown

CHINATOWN COMMUNITY CENTER Pool Session

7 to 9pm

Registrar: Chris Godfrey email: [email protected]

Price: $15 members; $20 non-members

Are you ready to practice your roll? Do you want to perfect your re-entry technique? Are you afraid that time spent without practicing a high-brace will leave you high and wet? Or do you just miss being in you boat?

All of our pool sessions this year will be the “Open Practice” format where you can learn from your peers.

Things that can be practiced in a pool include skills, techniques and strokes that do not need an expanse of water, such as:

* Wet exits

* Rescues, assisted and unassisted.

* Equipment testing, exploration, shakedown, usage or just getting comfortable, for example,

using a paddle float for rescues.

* Strokes not needing an expanse of water, such as draw and pry.

* Rolling, bracing, balance bracing, sculling, etc.

Equipment for pool sessions, includes:

* PFD -- required for anyone in a boat in a pool session.

* Spray skirt -- required for the vast majority of skills to be practiced

* Paddle float – optional, for rescue practice, rolling practice, etc.

* Pump – optional for practice involving capsized or swamped boats

* Goggles or a face mask -- highly recommended for practice that involves immersion, since

chlorinated pools can be hard on the eyes.

PLEASE NOTE:

NSPN requires that payment for the pool sessions must be made in advance of the pool session. Your Registrar will provide you with the details that you need to know. Pool sessions are non-refundable.

When you inquire about a pool session, please include: Your name, phone number, NSPN membership number, expiration date, emergency contact and their phone number in the email.

If you're coming from the 93/95 north, you get off at the Chinatown exit (left hand side) in the tunnel. At the end of the exit ramp, stay on the right and go straight down the surface road until you hit the light on Kneeland St. (Straight across light is the entrance back on to the Expressway.) At the Kneeland St. light, take a right to go down Kneeland St (west). On the 3rd light, take a left onto Washington St. Proceed past the Hospital (actually you'll go under it) until you hit the light at Oak St. Take a right onto Oak St. west. Halfway down the block, entrance to our garage is on the left. The garage entrance is right across from the Wang YMCA.

Coming from Expressway South, get off on exit 20/South Station/Airport. (CAUTION: If you pass this exit, you will end up going all the way to North Station before being able to turn around.)

When you get off on Exit 20, stay on the left hand side to get to Frontage Road and South Station. ( CAUTION: right hand side will end up going into the Williams Tunnel). Stay on the left hand side of Frontage Road. At the 2nd (? 3rd) light, take a left onto East Berkeley St. Go straight down East Berkeley and, at the 2nd light, take a right onto Washington St (north). Washington St. will cross over the Mass Turnpike. You'll see the BCNC/School building on the left hand side. Continue up Washington to the intersection with Oak St. and take a left at the light onto Oak St West. Half way down the block, the garage entrance is on the left.