How To Make A Sprung Floor For Judo

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How to make a sprung floor for judo.

The base layer was a series of batons foam and strategically placed pieces of cardboard that looked suspiciously like torn up beer boxes used to fill holes. This is called a basket weave spring floor. Also big thanks to steven for answering all my private questions and being super helpful in general. It is the same foam as the pro blocks.

Our first floor was a tire floor. And finally you could just put a few layers of cheap foam or mats underneath your good ones to make a softer floor. It is the same foam as the pro blocks. This judo floor combination of grappling puzzle mats with foam roll subfloor also serves as a mock sprung floor.

The progressive rate spring floor was wonderful but ridiculously expensive. An actual sprung floor is another excellent judo subfloor option to install underneath the grappling mma mat system. Sprung floors provide an underlayment that could protect judokas from injuries and discomfort when learning various. If you want to use springs instead this is a great video of my friend steven french explaining how they built their floor at beastwood.

Making a sprung floor for judo prior to undertaking the refurbishment the mats at uni judo were good but not great. Download a super detailed spec as to how to install your own diy sprung dance floor and save. The quest for the perfect judo floor. The only truly sprung floors i have done judo on are a hardwood floor mounted on progressive rate springs in japan and the sprung floors using tires.

Which in turn was inspired by this article. The cost estimate to do a floor this way is over 40 per square foot. I m going to take a look at these methods and describe the basic idea behind building a spring or sprung as some people call it floor.