Arkansas Canoe Club Forums

Hi,
I am a new member in the canoe club and have a couple of questions about using the UALR pool for roll practice. I recently joined with a household membership for my daughter and I and she just got her first whitewater boat (an old eskimo diablo) to learn in. If we were to use the pool for some practice, Where is the best place to park? and where is the best place to enter the building? Also, how do you enter without a student ID? It seems like In the mid 90's when I was a student there, a student ID was required to enter the pool/gym area from the common area of the donaghey building.
Thanks,
Brett

Where is the best place to park?

Parking lot #2, the gates are open and it's public parking by the time pool sessions start in the evening. Take the campus entrance on University just behind Big Lots.

where is the best place to enter the building?

I'm usually the first/only boater there every week and prop the door open with the hose when I get there. If the big glass wall of doors that you can see from the far end of lot 2 aren't propped open or there's nobody near the doors to open them for you, you can go through the double doors just to the right of those to go through the door behind the fitness center front desk and open the big doors to get your boat in.

how do you enter without a student ID?

There aren't any card readers on the doors, and the people at the fitness center front desk wont stop you from walking into the pool area if you've got any boating gear with you.

Thanks rouble, I had her at the lake near our house earlier today and she had her hip snap down, but when we tried to put it together with a paddle she wasn't quite there. She was about 90% doing it herself, but I was having to give a small twist on the end of her boat put it upright. I think the nice clear pool water might give her the confidence she needs, plus talking to another paddler might help too. I haven't been in a Whitewater kayak since the dagger crossfire was a hot boat and now I'm too fat to get in one so to her I'm just her old lame dad in his canoe that don't know anything . I'm planning to take her up there next week so I hope we see you there.
Thanks again
Brett