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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 […]
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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10 Elite College Football Weight Rooms You Need to See The foundation for success on College Football Saturdays is built long before kickoff, in the weight room. Elite programs are developed from the ground up, and in the NIL era, investing in athlete safety and performance has never mattered more. Today’s top football facilities aren’t
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Sport Floor Horror Stories The scariest thing about flooring installation is the unknown. Are you ready to face your sport floor fears? This is your last chance. Stop reading now and stay blissfully unaware of what might be hiding beneath your feet, but be warned. If horror movies have taught us anything, it’s this: The
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Running Laps in the Lunch Room? Discover the best flooring options for schools with limited space—durable, safe, and easy-to-clean sports floors for cafeteria-gym combos. “Do more with less.” We’ve all heard that challenge before. It shows up a lot in the construction industry because resources are always limited. Do more with less space, less money,
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When it comes to solving the climate crisis and preserving our fragile ecosystems, there are two misconceptions we cannot afford. The first is the assumption that one solution will appear out of the blue and solve everything for us—a new renewable energy or perhaps a new biodegradable plastic. Frankly, we can’t afford to wait on
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By the time a child reaches elementary school, they will be acutely aware of grades: the A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s, and F’s of academics. As soon as the concept of grades is formed, that student will immediately begin to see grades as a value system. For instance, an A is better than a B, a
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