How to fasten Sup 'Air to concrete?

[mikeyg]

I play at an indoor field called Splatball Inc. here in Minnesota (to cold here to play outside in the winter). They have cement floors and they use a surface on top of the cement similar to what is on the bottoms of pools. After a couple of hours of playing the floor gets alittle slippery but it is not that bad if you have HARD PLASTIC knee pads on the outside of your pants.

 

[Liz]

Have a look at woodchips rather than sawdust, like they have for children's play areas. Should clump less than sawdust when it gets paint in it, and be more impact-friendly as well when you dive & slide. That's what's used for some horse riding arenas both indoor and outdoor.

 

[KillerOnion]

Skyball has successfully used carpet for a number of years with no ill effects. It's considerably less messy than woodchips or sawdust, and you get the bonus of AWESOME sliding!!! You just blow the paint aside from the bunkers with a leafblower between games. All you'd have to do to keep it operable would be to shampoo the carpet every month or so, depending on what kind of paint is in use there.

 

[Red_Merkin]

ok.
for the ultimate indoor field, you can purchace artificial grass outdoor carpeting which can be glued directly onto the cement floor. It won't be cheap, but with a little paint on it, you will slide nicely on it. I'd imagine if you bought the carpet on the roll, and laid it your self, it wouldn't be too bad price wise, and would probably compare with sand.

As for fixing your supair baracades, i sugest two things. Depending on what type of barcades you have, you can use water or sand.
If you have the fan powered ones, they should zip open, and you can place the sand bags around the outside edges, and then zip them back up.
If you have the perminantly inflated ones, (with the bung) then you inflate them, and fill the bottom few inches with Water. You may also want to place sand bags around the base to hold them in place, and i'd also sugest slightly under inflating them so that the whole base stays on the ground. With a few inches of water in the bottom, even the fattest git won't be able to knock one over.

Good luck, and post pictures when you are done.