The Best Seats
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By now, most of us know and realize the true value a gymnasium floor cover can bring to your athletic facility. We’ve heard countless time as to how these floor covers can save and even make your facility additional revenue due to their extreme durability and versatility.

At this point, it comes down to simply choosing the specific type of floor cover you think will suit your facility best. While not seemingly a terribly difficult question to answer, there are a few factors to consider, mainly being what exactly it is you plan on doing with your cover, and how many times a year you plan to have it in use.

Let’s look at the two products offered by Sport Systems, and go over the differences between the two to help you make the informed decision prior to your next purchase. We carry both a heavy duty and an ultra heavy duty protective cover product which we find serves most facilities we service quite well.

Having gone through the process of deciding which seating solution is right for your indoor gymnasium seating needs, you have settled on telescopic seating, simply because of its unbeatable versatility.

After evaluating and making the initial decision to go with a telescopic bleacher system for your gymnasium, the next question is what type of seating you would prefer for your future spectators.

When it comes to the actual seating platform, you have a couple of additional choices to make, depending on the exact needs of your facility:

Athletic facilities come in all shapes and sizes, and same is true for the wide variety of protective padding applications used for these different facilities. From gym settings to educational athletic facilities we have the padding to provide your facility with durable and long-lasting protection for your participants.

Post, Column & Beam Padding

The title suggests it quite clearly. Post, column and beam padding is used to protect permanent structures in your facility against both wear and tear as well as potential injury to participants. This type of padding spans a wide variety of applications and is used in both indoor and outdoor settings. From warehouses and schools, to outdoor playgrounds for our children, these pads are all custom-made to fit posts, poles, columns and I-Beams.

This protective padding is constructed of 2” high density foam and can be rounded, square, hexagonal in shape.

With so many options and a variety of suppliers on the market today, we have compiled the following points of consideration for your next purchase.

Foam

Obviously a vital part to your wall padding, foam comes in a variety of options, most of which are pretty good. What you will want to make sure of is the ability of the padding to absorb shock from an impact. There are two units of measurement to help you identify this, foam density and indentation force deflection (IFD) (or indentation load deflection). Foam density is more of an indicator of the durability of the foam and has little bearing on the ability of the padding to absorb shock. While ILD is a measure of force required to compress a 4” thick piece of foam to a pre-determined percentage of its original thickness. Higher ILD rating is equal to more shock absorption.

Time marches on, and as we all lead busy lives, we sometimes can accidentally overlook routine maintenance of equipment found in our athletic facilities and sports fields. We have compiled a quick 6-point checklist you can use to constantly assess the condition of your bleachers to ensure they are always in tip top shape for the big game.

Have a good look at everything

This one is easy and quite obvious; get out and do a quick walk around your bleachers or grandstand seating. Be sure to carefully inspect the stairs and ramps, making sure they are clear of debris and are in good working condition. If you notice anything else along your walk through, make sure you carry a notebook and make notes of anything that might affect the smooth operation of your bleachers.

Together with the aid of a large network of sports equipment dealers, Performance Sport Systems has developed an unmatched maintenance and service program for athletic facilities across North America. By being involved in this program, Sport Systems’ technicians and installers have gone through rigorous training and are experts in the evaluation of your equipment and facility.

Sightlines

In this business, the fans are always right and providing them with the best viewing experience is on top of the list.  Maintaining consistent sightlines can be a complex task, but we make it our mission to ensure spectator satisfaction with all bleacher systems sold and serviced by our team. 

Choosing the proper bleacher system for your athletic facility is never an easy task, as there are a variety of variable that can come in to play during the selection period. When choosing outdoor bleachers, the choice can be narrowed down quite a bit based on type of system and number of seats needed.

Indoor seating systems can be another breed. There too exists a varied selection depending on the specific needs of your athletic facility.

A main point of interest for most looking at indoor bleacher seating options is versatility. This is a strong point for the telescopic bleacher system (also known as retractable or reverse fold bleachers).

Telescopic bleachers give your facility an extra level of versatility and can be an instrumental in maximizing the allotted space in your particular facility. Today, facility managers are always looking for innovative solutions to the specific needs of their facility with regards to allocated space for sports, participants and spectators.

This past March, the Texas Motor Speedway unveiled the largest HD sports screen in the world. Aptly nicknamed the “Big Hoss TV”, measures at 218 feet in length and comes in at about 95 feet in height. The HD screen is located at about 125 feet above ground level, sitting over the middle of the backstretch of the 1.5 mile track in Fort Worth, Texas.

This is yet another monstrous screen located in the Lone Star State, rivalling most other sports venue screens around the world.

A few months prior to the unveiling of the “Big Hoss TV” in Fort Worth, the folks down at the now SEC college, Texas A&M are in the middle of a $450 million renovation, with their goal of making Kyle Field and College Station, Texas the premier destination in college football.

After completing the purchase of a bike rack system for your facility or municipality, you will need to obviously decide the best way in which you would like the system mounted. There are a few options available to you, based on the product chosen.

Each of the following mounting configurations satisfies a specific requirement for your bicycle rack:

Portable

This option is clearly the most obvious choice when looking for a versatile solution when you might be interested in moving your bike rack from one location to another. This non-permanent solution simply allows the rack to rest on the ground independently and does not require any anchoring.