Indoor Fields Flooring?

[fire1811]

i have heard that atomix has the best flooring.

skyball was great but that was for only 3 days
what would it be like after 6 months. even with cleaning its going to get worse

this is why i play outdoors

and the bananna slide was the bomb

[cheetah256]

Originally posted by funkmunky56
Atomix Paintball in Walled Lake, MI (just outta Detroit) has the same material they used over at the new Detroit football stadium... it's like this turf with ground rubber raked into it... they keep it really clean by raking it once an hour, and after each night they drive around with a golf cart that has a lawnsweeper attached to it... it's really not ULTRA slippery, in fact it's really nice, and you can slide well, but you don't slip. I do use soccer cleats, though, the ones with the big rubber cleats on the bottom (not the screwins) just cuz I like to. It makes me feel like I'm a cool athlete

i'd have to agree with you there atomix has the best turf i've ever played on. the only time it really sucks is when you step on a big pile of paint where someone lost half a pod or something...

[FreshmanBob]

Blackcell's been practicin at shooters paintball at rexplex over the winter and the flooring they have is great. It's really tightly knit carpet so the paint comes off easily and you can slide for like 5 or 10 feet. That seems to be the best option.

[painball]

my local field WW Paintball has short carpeting (like rugs) and its easy to slide on and suprisingly has good traction. Every once in a while you'll accidentaly slide really hard or past ur bunker if ur runnin really fast. And that's no fun

[WARPED1]

Saw dust is good, then you can sweep it away, but then you need alot to replace every time you clean up.

[SyntaxError]

Shooters Paintball at Rexplex has some nice carpeting. Makes for easy, comfortable slides.

[automagruss]

i played on oil zorb on a regular basis and i find that the traction is ok and the sliding isn't to bad but when they put down a fresh bag or two you have to wait for the dust to settle before you play or you start to taste it in the air. i also played a bfg and saw a guy bust his hump real bad and all he was trying to do was check himself for a hit. they use saw dust atm but the keep talking about putting astro turf.

[EsPo]

the only indoor place around here is cement.. hoooriiiiiibleeee.. paint gets everywhere (very very slippery), very hard on the knees as well. carpeting is the way to go in my opinion.

[DA_DMX]

smooth concrete

i played a tounry at headrush in syracuse and it was their first one. The floor was just smooth concrete covers in paint. off the break everyone feel on the *** til they put a little blanket carpet thing near the starting put but it was a crazy time sliding everywhere.

[darklord]

Originally posted by Mossman
Boston paintball has nice low pile carpetting, it's the same stuff they use at Skyball, whatever that means

It's nice, not very slippery, easy to slide on, and not too tough on whatever part of your body is unfortunate to have the rest of you sliding on.

True that, Moss, BPS is awesome with that carpeting.

[WARPED1]

Astroturf works!