Bring your pads to Denver.
- Thread starter weedave
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No, I am sure some people will love sliding on asphalt. But since they will mostly be in the emergency room by Sunday, we will soon all be pussies, if you only count players still able to actually play.
It is true, incidentally. There isn't any padding beneath the fake turf.
It is true, incidentally. There isn't any padding beneath the fake turf.
Unless its that sprung type asphalt found in play grounds (which it obviously isn't as its a car park) I can't see why they would have done this, even carpet underlay or something would help.
I fail to see the big deal... People don't complain about the surface at Skyball, which is just cheap carpeting on a rockhard floor.
Bunch of girls...
Bunch of girls...
Oh, I see that the NPPL regards asphalt as shock asbsorbing. In the sense that it is more elastic than concrete, ok, I agree.
Also, if the NPPL is holding itself to Skyball standards, I am concerned.
All the same, I hope you are right. I hope it plays well and no one is hurt, diving on asphalt, covered with turf.
Beaker: that springy spongey stuff would be great... but it is expensive. Hey, wait, I am beginning to see the rationale for not having padding under the mats...
You know, maybe we could just do away with the turf... better traction that way. In fact, if the whole field were covered with little vertical spikes, there wouldn't be any need for cleats.
Also, if the NPPL is holding itself to Skyball standards, I am concerned.
All the same, I hope you are right. I hope it plays well and no one is hurt, diving on asphalt, covered with turf.
Beaker: that springy spongey stuff would be great... but it is expensive. Hey, wait, I am beginning to see the rationale for not having padding under the mats...
You know, maybe we could just do away with the turf... better traction that way. In fact, if the whole field were covered with little vertical spikes, there wouldn't be any need for cleats.
Seriously, I fail to see the big deal. From the looks of it, it can't be worse than real astroturf, something people have been happy to play football (not soccer) on for years! And I'm sure everybody agrees those guys make more contact with the stuff than the avarage paintballer.
Then again, all I got to work from is that little picture, so it's hard to tell really. So if after the weekend half the paintballing community is in hospital, I guess I was wrong.
Then again, all I got to work from is that little picture, so it's hard to tell really. So if after the weekend half the paintballing community is in hospital, I guess I was wrong.
it'll be fine, if anything it'll be better than fine!
You want a good hard surface under your truf, so runners can get more traction, combined with paint on the surface (or a little water) and you'll have guys doing super slides and running quicker off the break, and on the run throughs!
It's a high performance surface, fast players will get faster! Although it makes me wonder how they're going to attach the bunkers...
You want a good hard surface under your truf, so runners can get more traction, combined with paint on the surface (or a little water) and you'll have guys doing super slides and running quicker off the break, and on the run throughs!
It's a high performance surface, fast players will get faster! Although it makes me wonder how they're going to attach the bunkers...
Word, it is fine - like tha venerable Buddha sez, goaltenders dive down hard on this **** and don't cry...and if a baller is diving like that then he's diving wrong.