The Club caters for all levels of swimming from beginners through to competitive
swimming and water polo. You can come along and do your own thing, for
meeting people / social purposes or be coached either for personal improvement
and fitness or to enter gay swimming / water polo events around the world and/or
ASA Masters events. Many members use the club for its social outlets and are
not necessarily committed swimmers but enjoy the unique ambience that the
club has and are more involved in the social and volunteering opportunities that
the club generates. In short, the club has opportunities for everyone.
New Members Information
General
On your first visit we will require brief registration details to keep our Club’s
insurance cover valid and it is important to have a contact number in case of
emergency.
There is no membership charge for joining the club. You just pay as and when you
attend a session.
Unless you advise otherwise (state it on your membership form) you will be added
to the mailing list for the Club’s newsletter ‘Newsplash’. You can choose whether
to receive this by email (as a PDF file) or through the post.
Your e-mail address helps us to stay in touch with information about socials,
events, requests for help, change of times, pool availability etc.
There are two swimming and a fun water polo sessions each week:
Tuesday Coached and Social Swimming and Fun water polo
Moss Side Leisure Centre
Moss Lane East
Moss Side
Manchester
M15 5NN
8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Sunday Coached Swimming
Manchester Aquatics Centre
2 Booth Street
Manchester
M13 9SS
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Welcome to Moss Side Leisure Centre
Charges - £3.00 for swim & fun water polo, £3.50 for coached swim & fun water
polo. A £1 concession is available for unemployed and full-time students who are
not working.
Coached swimming is available to all – from beginners through to Olympic
swimmers – it is your choice.
Car parking is available on the roadside, or underneath the leisure centre
(accessed from the rear, off Moss Lane East). A safe (certainly for the last six
years) large ‘legal’ car parking area – it’s dry and well lit!
Changing Rooms – there is a choice!
Heading away from reception towards the stairs the dry, male or female only
changing rooms can be found to the right and behind the staircase.
Same direction but straight on past the stairs, to the end, then right, takes you to
the communal changing area with cubicles and more showers. These are unisex
so please use the cubicles. There are some family rooms available at the far side of the
communal changing rooms (on a level with the kids pool), where you can get a bit more
privacy if you want it.
You will need a £1.00 coin for the lockers.
Please be respectful when changing, as all areas may have members of the
public present and you are representing Northern Wave – Thanks.
Once you have changed into your swimming attire just head into the pool. The
pool is divided in two; one half for people who want to be coached and who
follow the programme (sets) set out by the coach and the other half is open for
people to do their own thing. If you want to be coached go and introduce yourself to the
coach who should be fairly obvious standing at the deep end of the pool. He or she will guide you. If you just want to do your own thing, we have volunteers who will come and talk to you and explain how the evening works and introduce you to other members.
The social swimmers use the half without lane ropes. Our members are friendly folk
and are keen to introduce and meet new people.
The swimming lasts from 8:00 pm to around 8:50 pm. At 9:00 pm the lane ropes
are taken out of the water and nets are placed at each end of the pool and
many members stay and spend the next half hour (until 9:30pm) playing a fun
game of water polo. This is open to swimmers of all levels and is a great
opportunity for everyone to become involved.
After swimming, most members go to Taurus, No1 Canal Street, for a drink. We go
to Taurus because they support us throughout the year and you’re very
welcome to join in.
Welcome to Manchester Aquatic Centre
Charges - £4.00 for the one and a half hour swim. A £1 concession is available for
unemployed and full-time students who are not working.
Coached swimming is available to all – from beginners through to Olympic
swimmers – it is your choice.
Car parking is available at the NCP car park on Booth Street East or on the
parking bays on Oxford Road. At Reception tell them that you are there for the Northernwave and head down to the training pool, which is a 50-meter pool located underneath the main pool. The stairs down are located to the left of reception. The changing rooms are at the bottom of these stairs. You will need a £1.00 coin for the lockers.
Once you have changed into your swimming attire just head into the pool.
If you want to be coached go and introduce yourself to the coach who should be fairly obvious standing at the deep end of the pool. He or she will guide you.
If you just want to do your own thing, we have volunteers who will come and talk to you and explain how the evening works and introduce you to other members.
The social swimmers use the near lane. Our members are friendly folk and are
keen to introduce and meet new people.
The session lasts from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
After swimming, most members go to Taurus, No1 Canal Street, for a drink. We go
to Taurus because they support us throughout the year and you’re very
welcome to join in.
Annual Training Camp
We run a weekend long training camp at Lancaster University. Starting on the
Friday night, this involves 7 hours of coached swimming, videoing swimmers’
techniques and strokes, classroom sessions and a team dinner on the Saturday
evening.