Sports Flooring Pros and Cons
To choose the most suitable flooring for your needs, it is important to first understand the different products available for various sports facilities. From combat sports to baseball and softball, and hockey and skating, each type of sport demands unique flooring features to ensure safety, performance, and durability.
In this guide, we’ll explore the pros and cons of different types of sports flooring to help you make an informed decision. For more product information, kindly contact our experts at Perfect Surfaces or go through our product page for details.
Combat Sports Flooring
Perfect Surfaces’ RivalMATS work well for wrestling, boxing, ju-jitsu, BJJ, and mixed martial arts (MMA) facilities. These roll-out mats have a shock-absorbing high-density foam that helps to prevent injury; they are also heavy-duty and durable enough to stay in place during the most intense grappling matches! These vinyl-topped wrestling roll-out mats are easy to roll out, easy to clean, and just as easy to roll up and store away as needed. While vinyl-bonded roll-out mats are designed for wrestling, boxing and MMA, our carpet-bonded foam RivalMATS are better suited for use as gymnastics roll-out mats, tumbling carpet-top mats, parkour mats, and cheerleading mats.
Baseball and Softball Flooring
VersaTREAD rubber rolls are well-suited to baseball and softball facilities. They offer resilience, sound absorption, spike resistance, traction, and cushioning in one product. VersaTREAD rolled rubber is also available in various colored-speckle options, providing an attractive, safe, and durable flooring solution. The only downside to VersaTREAD rolled rubber is that it is non-porous, making it more difficult to keep clean. If this is a factor, you would want to consider our non-porous VersaRUBBER® vulcanized rubber athletic mats and rubber athletic sheets instead- waterproof mats and sheets designed to enhance athletic performance, reduce impact and injury, and improve the look and feel of any space. Like VersaRUBBER®, DuraRUBBER® mats also offer improved resilience, a non-porous surface, outstanding tensile strength, and superior traction with multi-directional drainage: moisture is channelled away beneath with the honeycomb rubber side up, or accumulated surface moisture is eliminated with FloGRIP rubber surfaces side up!
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Artificial Athletic Turf
Artificial turf offers outstanding value in any indoor athletic facility, whether installed as an indoor football field turf, indoor lacrosse field turf, or indoor soccer field turf. Our GatorFIT® artificial athletic turf offers ActionBACK 5mm foam backing to reduce the impact on athletes’ joints- keeping athletes safer; artificial turf is not subject to downtime since it does not require water, fertilizer, or mowing! Additionally, artificial grass blades do not stain clothing and secondary thatch and infill eliminate the messy dirt- keeping players cleaner. While GatorFIT® is designed for indoor use only and carries a higher initial investment than natural grass, the long-term cost savings of ultra-durable GatorFIT® pay for itself over the course of its exceptionally longer product lifetime. GatorFIT® athletic turf is also available in multiple colors and is fully customizable with hash marks, game lines, and logos- eliminating the need to repaint natural grass before each game!
Hockey and Skating Flooring
Easy to clean VersaTREAD hockey and skating arena flooring is commercial grade, resistant to skate blades, and available in two convenient formats: rubber sheets and rubber rolls. Low VOC, ultra-durable VersaTREAD hockey and skating rubber flooring protects players and equipment in high-traffic areas, maximizing performance potential—and they’re easy to install and maintain. While VersaTREAD is designed to withstand high-traffic areas, one drawback in some applications is that it is a porous rubber, making it slightly more challenging to keep clean than a non-porous product. If exposure to moisture is a factor in your application, you may want to consider our non-porous VersaRUBBER® ICE hockey mats, constructed of dual-layer, vulcanized rubber for an ultra-tough rubber surface- a must in any hockey and skating facility. Constructed of recycled rubber, slip-resistant VersaRUBBER® ICE arena mats are FloorScore certified and qualify for LEED credits- making them a sustainable choice for any application. Available in a variety of bold speckle color options for high-end facilities, the non-porous surface makes it easy to clean and maintain while eliminating odors and hygiene concerns.
