Across the Atlantic in the lush green Ringsend park, the install team at Sportlabs UK, Ltd. tore up the old turf on the soccer pitch they had installed a decade ago and made a pleasant discovery. The white Brock PowerBase/GEN1 pads were in “perfect condition,”...
Conventional wisdom indicates that a sports surface with too much vertical deformation (softness) may result in an increase in injuries to knees and ankles. In fact, the NFL is as concerned with soft tissue injuries that can end a career as they are with concussions....
International Women’s Day commemorates the movement for equality and women’s rights and the movement transcends to the sports field as well. The discussions surrounding women in sports have demonstrated the inequality between the genders in more ways than you may...
The StubHub Center, home of five-time MLS Cup Champion LA Galaxy, has joined the “LA Spec” initiative to replace recycled crumb-rubber artificial turf fields with alternative infills all across Los Angeles. A key factor in swapping out rubber infills for organics or...
Safety of the playing surface dominated the discussions at the recent Synthetic Turf Council (STC) meeting in Las Vegas. As stated by Chris Nowinski during his keynote address, “Artificial turf is a piece of safety equipment” and should be treated with the same...
Brett Favre took his last snap as an NFL quarterback on an icy December day in Minnesota in 2010. Chicago Bears, Corey Wootton, muscled his way through the Vikings line and drove Favre’s head into the artificial turf surface. The next 15 seconds Favre lay motionless...