S P

A Clean Sports Floor is a Safe Sports Floor Why would you clean something that doesn’t “look” dirty? With sports floors, there are plenty of good reasons. Think about the meticulous care given to a putting green on the PGA Golf Tour, or the way an MLB grounds crew carefully rakes the infield before the

Baseball, Apple Pie, and ASTM When it comes to sports flooring standards, ASTM F2772 is different than DIN and EN. Here’s why. It’s official. On July 4th, the United States of America turned 250 years old. Depending on who you to talk to, this past Independence Day might have been a milestone worthy of special

Padenpor-palooza What made Padenpor by Abacus Sports so popular over the years? Sports performance, versatility, and much more! 1991 was a momentous year: the collapse of the Soviet Union, the birth of the internet, the beginning of Abacus Sports Installations…Ok, maybe it didn’t reshape geopolitics or change global communication forever, but in the sports flooring

Intuitively Understanding Sports Flooring Elasticity Understanding sports flooring elasticity can help you make better apples-to-apples flooring decisions. “Hey, you know what would be fun this weekend? Mattress shopping!” The chances of hearing that sentence over the next few weeks are pretty good. Every Memorial Day weekend, retailers try to get you to skip the neighborhood

More Pickleball, More Activity Pickleball courts are in high demand. Designing spaces for the fastest growing sport is easy if you know the criteria for a successful court. There are lots of mysteries in the world, like “How were the pyramids built?” and “Why do ships disappear in the Bermuda Triangle?” What you won’t find

Setting Up Your Sports Floor Bracket Let the tournament begin! Not just NCAA March Madness, but narrowing down the perfect sports floor for your client’s new gym! The thrill of the Winter Olympics has ended, but it’s still an exciting time to be a sports fan. March Madness is here! The NCAA basketball championship is

The Purpose Behind Each Padenpor Layer Poured polyurethane gym floors are meticulously built on site, layer by layer. How well do you know the process? Think about making your favorite sandwich. You have all your ingredients on the kitchen counter in front of you. Do you carelessly start piling them between two pieces of bread,

High Impact, High Traffic, High Pressure? Been there. Done that. Finding the right flooring material for commercial gyms isn’t easy, but Abacus Sports has the time-tested solution: recycled rubber. Indoor athletic facilities are simply more demanding than other spaces when it comes to flooring. Most of those demands relate to sports performance. Properties like ball

What Makes a Good Multi-Use Sports Floor? Can your gym floor multitask? Here we will discuss the ways a school gym can become a hub for all activity on campus, not just the basketball games. All sports teams have specialists. These are players who have one job and one job only—place kickers, goal keepers, and

Sports Flooring Standards Deconstructed What are the pieces that make up a good sports surface? Read on for a deep dive that will turn you into the resident sports flooring expert. How do you learn to build something? Take it apart first. If you read a biography of Albert Einstein, you will learn that as