Reading Pool Session

Burbank YMCA in Reading

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Registrar: Karen Gladstone email: [email protected]

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.

Directions to Reading YMCA

Burbank YMCA

36 Arthur B. Lord Drive

Reading, MA 01867

<781> 944 7989

From Route 128

Take 128 to Exit 40, Reading/Wakefield Route 129

Coming off exit, go around rotary until turnoff for Route 129 West to Reading

Proceed to intersection at Reading Town Center

At traffic light, turn right onto Route 28 North

Go north on Route 28 for less than 1 mile

At 1st set of lights, turn left onto Birch Meadow Drive

Take 1st right onto Arthur B. Lord Drive

YMCA is your immediate right

From Route 93

Take Route 93 to Route 129 this is Lowell St.

Follow Lowell St towards Reading for 1/2 mile to the set of lights.

This will be the intersection of Grove and Willow.

A convenient store will be on the left.

The next street after the convenient store parking lot is Intervale Terr.

Take a left onto Intervale Terr. follow until it ends and take a left and follow that road around Birch Meadow Park. The YMCA is on the North side of the park.

Take a left onto Arthur B. Lord Drive the YMCA is your immediate right