Opinions and feedback about plastic floor

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#1

Need feedback and opinion about these kind of floor.
About the grip.
We played a tournament in Basel, back in the days, and remember that it was grippy enough but it wasnt during a wet season (not full summer although)
Since it’s meant to be played by inline roller hockey I guess it will be grippy enough even in a humid environement but I’d love to have some opinion about it.

thanks

A link to a china producer as reference :

#2

Hi Quentin !
Happy to share my experience since we were close to get that in Lyon.

I went to a hockey court like this to test, in Aix-les-Bains.
This kind of surface is hockey (:clown_face:) but only if it’s 101% dry !
As soon as there is humidity, even in the air, it’s super slippery.

Then, we played several indoor tournament in Tours Bike Polo on a court like this. I think Clément played FHBPC there too. The feeling with the ball is weird at the beginning (hard to scoop, strange variation of ball speed) but after 5min, it’s nice.

To finish, it’s only my feedback. I know that the sport surfaces are evolving quickly these days and maybe they is something more grippy on the market now.

:bike: :field_hockey:

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#3

As described! Our Hockey section had it installed and it was unplayable when slightly wet or humid. Luckyly we had it only for one season and then ripped it off.

No recomondation for outside!

Detailed version :D :point_down:t5::point_down:t5::point_down:t5:

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#4

Do everything it takes to avoid these, learn from our experience. We had this type of plastic tile floor on our court in Gießen for about a year. It was terrible, theres nothing good about them! The court was unplayable for most of the year.

The slightest bit of rain made it slippery as hell. In addition to that the capillary force kept water between the tiles and the surface below the tiles. Every time you rolled over it, water was squeezed on to the court again, even on days it seemed playable at first glance . Thus, ten minutes of rain left the court unplayable for days or even weeks.

In springtime autumn and winter, the dew was enough to trigger the mentioned effect, leaving the court unplayable no matter how sunny the days were.

The few instances when it was hot enough for the court to dry throughout, the court saw another problem: The tiles extended and shrank so heayily on sunny days, that lines of tiles were pushed up and formed ridges. You could roll over them with your bike, but the ball would jump or get deflected.

The city put the tiles on the court due to one hockey player pushing for it, the day we were allowed to rip them of was a great pleasure.

tl;dr
HAD THE TILES ON OUR COURT, WORST POLO SEASON EVER.

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#5

Ok cool thanks for the clear feedback.
I haven’t mentionned it, my bad, but the area in question will be covered but yet still in exterior and near two rivers (so humidity is a thing).

#6

If you still would like to give it a try (even though we can’t recommend it), we still have all the plastic parts sitting next to the court in Gießen, I’m sure the city would be happy to make a good price ;)

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#7

Does the shitty one you all talking about is looking like these :

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