Now I notice when I'm in the other dojo that the mat feels "wobbly" to me. Actually, it's gotten to where they don't hurt at all.
The first thing I noticed after we moved into our new space without a sprung floor was that my knees hurt less after class. The one which is foam (2" of it!) on hardwood was also on a sprung floor until recently. One has a sprung floor, the other is just foam on hardwood. I have to agree with the benefits mentioned in general, but. When I opened my first permanent dojo, in came the spring-loaded mat for good!" As a coach, I vowed that I would cease subjecting my students to unnecessary hardship just as soon as I could. I also realized that many who started Judo in the clubs I was attending (including my own brother) soon quit because they didn't appreciate the falling. Looking back at my own training, the only thing that I never liked about Judo was landing on concrete-hard surfaces, especially in the cold winter. "As a coach, I have always looked for ways to better my program.
Dojo floor plan full#
See his full article with photographs online at: Judoka Gerald Lafon has spent many years experimenting with home-made spring-loaded mats which are actually better - and cheaper - than commercial models. Imagine doing that to your computer 20-50-300 times a night and then being surprised that it was starting to not work quite so well as it did before. Watch an Olympic judo film sometime but ignore the throws - watch the heads bouncing off the solid mats. One obviously severely damaged fellow I know denied any history of actual "head injury" but admitted to 8 years of 300 breakfalls a night. And once you know what to look for, the Walking Wounded are everywhere. Otherwise, the same forces that destroy the legs and hips of dancers are tearing at brains and bodies in judo and aikido. Dance floors (and even WWF rings) are "sprung" for good reason and dojo floors should be too. I'm also convinced that years of repetitive breakfalls=years of repetitive microtrauma + the occasional macrotrauma is a potentially tragic mix. My own unfortunate experience has given me a fervent interest in head injury and its aftermath. To save your body, your brain and your life - and maybe even your student numbers. Out of curiosity why do you want a sprung floor? (Hey Jeff, say "Hi" to your dad from Wendy on the Forensic Path Committee and her pony-tailed Jim.) A more forgiving mat extends your fully practicing Aikido by another 10 years. When we're done we'll have 80 tatami on a spring floor. Building the wood floor just an hour or two.
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The rest of the money we blew on beer.Īpplying the foam took several hours plus a day to set. The Zebra mats about $120 for a 1x2 meter mat, less if it's been used. The Liquid Nails to attach the foam is about 6 bucks per plywood sheet. The foam blocks comes to about $12 per plywood sheet. The plywood runs about $12 to $15 for a 4x8 sheet. We just built one using foam blocks on plywood.
While the facilities in Almere are much more modern compared to Amstelveen, the concrete+rubber floor in Almere is sub-optimal compared to the suspended wooden floor of A'veen.You can have one made using the same people who build dance stages. The prior is situated in a local sports facility from the 70s/80s, while the latter is in a brand-new high school building. In the image above, the building on the left is our Amstelveen dojo, while the building on the right is the one in Almere. His article "Basic Dojo Layout" provided me with most of the terminology I needed for my own sketches. It's a joy to read about kendo dojo from an architect's point of view, going into building design, flooring structure and history. Lin's site does in-depth articles of kendo dojo, both famous and local. Dillon Lin that I could fill in all the proper names! Mr. But it's thanks to the great website of mr. Half an hour doodling with OmniGraffle gave me the basic drawings. Making sketches of building layouts isn't a very hard job. Part of this concept is a page providing details about the training locations: basic info, a Google Map and drawings of the dojo layout. The past week I spent a few evenings putting together a new website, based on Wordpress. I've been working on a new project for the Renshinjuku kendo dojo: a few months ago Heeren- sensei asked me to come up with some ideas for renewing the dojo's website.
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