PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
New Sports Floor Required?
Fast Track it with Gerflor!
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t is universally accepted that playing sport on hard or composite floors can lead to a higher risk of repetitive impact injuries for players. These injuries usually manifest themselves as foot, knee, hip and back problems.
For example, Achilles tendonitis is a common impact injury
that is caused by playing sport on hard surfaces and, due to the poor blood supply to that particular part of the body, it often takes longer to heal. A floor offering higher levels of percentage force reduction can help lower the risk of these types of injury and discomfort endured by players. Gerflor, manufacturers of the internationally celebrated
Taraflex sports flooring range, have a perfect solution for sport facilities, leisure centres, schools and clubs that would like to improve their old, ‘out of date’ sport surfaces. “Fast tracking a sports surface is a simple, time and cost effective way of updating and improving sports floors” explained the Sport Manager for Gerflor,
preparation for 2012, there was only one real option – A Fast Track Solution by Gerflor! Taraflex sport flooring was adhered to an Isolating membrane
called Isolsport. The Isolsport sits, free floating, on the existing wooden sprung floor and the Taraflex is installed on top. This offers the high standard of floor required for the elite players whilst lowering the risk of sporting injuries. “The installation of the Gerflor surface improves the quality
of our training environment” said Ian Moss, Badminton England Performance Director, “It mimics the types of floors used at International competitions and will also help reduce impact injuries and foot traction problems compared with a wooden floor”. Mark Burbidge pointed out that the facility also has 17
Darren Wood. “Sanding and re sealing an old composite floors can be expensive and, it does nothing by way of improving the
shock the surface.
absorbency Our fast
clubs and 150 individual players from the local community he explained “It will greatly benefit the many young players that regularly play here”. A recent community facility to take advantage of the fast
of track
method can be an affordable alternative and significantly improves the look and more importantly the performance of the floor!” When
the Badminton
England’s National Sports Centre in Milton Keynes decided to upgrade their playing surface in
track solution by Gerflor was Batley Sports and Tennis Centre in West Yorkshire managed by Kirklees Active Leisure. “The feedback we have had from customers has been very positive and they certainly prefer the new surface to the old hard wooden tile” commented Grace Barmforth, Duty Manager at the facility “We now have a proper sports floor which is much better suited to playing sport.” Taraflex® Sport M Plus has a patented, triple action Protecsol®
surface treatment for an optimum grip/slide compromise and ensures no friction burns when diving or falling. The other benefit of Protecsol is ‘no polish for life’. This means reduced maintenance bills and less downtime, keeping operators and their customers happier for longer. Next Edition – How to choose a sports floor.
For further information please contact Darren Wood Taraflex Sport manager on +44 (0)7836 366579
email:
contractuk@gerflor.com or visit
www.gerflor.co.uk
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