Putting goals into a new swimming pool - advice needed!

[Chris_Hughes]

Hi Guys,

Bangor Uni Canoe Polo are moving into a newly built swimming pool for training in October. We have however been told that we cannot suspend goals from the ceiling and that our goals will have to be free standing on the side of the pool

I am looking for any information I can find on: how this can be done, any pictures / diagrams from any pools that do this and potentially any companies that provide this kind of goal.

The pool is having holes drilled which are designed to take a water polo goal. We are wondering if these might be used to support our goals in some way!

Open to any ideas, many thanks,

Chris

[gavin]

Would they let you install pulleys in the ceiling? At the ULU pool we have a rope that goes across the ceiling and then down a pulley and we tie it off around an anchor thing that's sunk into the ground with wall plugs. That way you can hang a goal when you need it and take it down when you're done.

Otherwise the guys in California have an awesome goal system going with heavy duty plastic pipes. PM Izzy as he'll probably be able to explain it better than I will. You'll need quite a bit of pool-side space, but the benefit would then be that you can move the goal face further back for extra pitch length.

[Izzy]

For our 50-meter pool we use two strong metal poles about 5 meter long. Each pole have metal rings attached (one on a top and one about 1.5 meter from a bottom). We put poles on holes on sides of the pool. A goal frame will be hang down on a long rope across the pool between two poles. A goal frame are made from plastic pipes and has two rope loops to hang on a rope across the pool.

Here is how to install a goal before each practice:

1. Put a poles on a ground near the hole in a side of the pool.
2. Tie down one end of the rope to the top ring on one pole and get other end of the rope to the other side of the pool.
3. Put a free end of the rope through two loops of a goal frame and tie it down to the middle ring of the pole.
4. Put poles to the holes in sides of the pool.
5. Slide a a goal frame down the rope to the proper place of the pool.
6. Tighten the rope and when a goal frame is on a proper height fix the end of the rope to the middle ring of the pole.

Hope it will help.
Izzy