Our wall padding can permanently mounted or being removable. The mounted system would be different but the protection level will be the same. Depending on your budget or the design of the gym you can choose to cover the whole wall or just some sections.

All project is custom and we can make the cut out for electrical outlet or other obstacle. Same thing our pads can cover columns, beams, windows, doors and so on. You can pick up the home team color to make your gym looks fantastic. We can even put logo on it if you provide the art work. Of course, first thing in mind when its time to provide yourself with wall padding is security, don’t hesitate to discuss with our specialist to make your gym a safe place for the sports practice.

For all the skills in any beam skill training progression system, there are the equipment progressions relating to beam height and padding. All skills should be mastered on a line on the floor and progress eventually to the high beam. Depending on the equipment available in the gym, there are a number of intermediate equipment progression levels. They include:

1. Tape line on floor.

2. Foam floor beam pad on mat.

3. Heavily padded low beam.

4. Regulation low beam with mats stacked even with beam.

5. Regulation low beam pad.

6. Padded medium beam pad.

7. Regulation medium beam pad.

8. High beam with beam platform or stacked mats.

9. Padded high beam pad.

10. Regulation high beam with platform mats.

11. Regulation high beam pad.

Master Each Stage before Moving to Next Level

For safety and personal confidence, the best system is to gain complete mastery at each step of equipment progression. There are some coaches who do not like to include padded beams, especially padded high beams in their progression series, because it returns a crutch that has already been overcome at a lower level. This seems to be generally sound advice except when a gymnast, perhaps, is unable to progress because of fear caused by a fall and can benefit from more steps of progression.

Prove to Yourself You are Ready to Move Up

The most important person to convince that a gymnast is ready to move to the next level is the gymnast themselves. This means that gymnast should have to have 5-10 no-fall repetitions at each level up to the high beam pad. This equates to 45 out of 46 or up to 90 out of 90 (although not necessarily in a row) successfully stuck skills before gymnasts have to perform the skill on the high beam. This is a seemingly slow but sure method of success. Actually, because of the safety and consistency of this method, in the long run, it is faster and more efficient.

Know and Overcome Danger Points

Gymnasts should be trained and aware of the danger points of each skill that they are performing and concentrate on that first and foremost. For example, when performing a back handspring on the beam, the most dangerous mistake would be to miss the hands and land on your head on the beam pad. The second danger point is missing the first foot and possibly straddling the beam. Once those danger points have been successfully negotiated, the worst that can happen on any beam is a controlled fall. All of these steps should obviously be mastered on a line on the floor before even considering moving the skill to beam pad.

Land on the Line

Thus, when gymnasts begin training on a line on the floor, their first concern should be to always get their hands on the line. When they can get their hands on the line ten out of ten times, they have proved to themselves that they are safe from falling on their head by missing their hands and they can move to mastering the next danger point - missing the first foot.

Land Your First Foot

When the gymnast can get their hands on the line and their first foot on the line ten out of ten times, they are ready to add the margin of error landing techniques to the skill. When they can land the skill ten out of ten times without error on the line, they will have developed the true confidence necessary to move to the next equipment level where they will repeat the process.

Back Up If Necessary

This system usually works best with a strategy where the gymnast backs up in the progression if they fall at the next highest equipment level and back up and re-master the previous level to improve confidence and reaffirm technique.

Review the Progressions Daily

Every day, even with old skills, a modified (shortened) equipment progression beginning on the line on the floor is used to check for proper technique and consistency.

Eliminates Fear

Fear is often the limiting factor in beam skill development and determining the danger points and training for their safety often eliminates fear from the equation. If, however, there are other fears, additional progressions to eliminate or minimize their impact on the gymnast can be developed specifically to deal with that fear. This system minimizes fear because gymnasts don’t move up until it becomes obvious, even to them, that they are capable of performing thee skill on a beam.

A NO-Spotting System

This system can be used without benefit of any spotting. This will eliminate the need for the coach to be running around the beam during meets “standing there” or even actually having to spot during meets. Coaches may spot at early stages and equipment levels to ensure proper technique is being performed.

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Don’t forget when you take your measure to include some cut out you may need. You don’t want to cover your electrical outlet for exemple. The best way is probably to measure your gymnasium walls you would like to cover make a graphic or take pictures. All our representative are fully aware and got a lot of experienced to help you with your gym wall padding project don’t hesitate to contact us. Our advice are free and worth gold.

If you prefer removable gym padding on your wall then you can install aluminium channels and slide the velcro band in it. Then your wall gym mats which we sewed velcro on it come to attach on the channel. When you want to remove your gym wall pad it is a piece of cake.

Once again you can discuss with one of our representative to choose the best product according to your needs. You can rely on our 30 years experienced with gym wall padding business.

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Column Beam Pad Types

Circle Column Beam Pad is one of these columns that it needs to be well measured because this could affect the safety if it is not well taken. A circle column pad too large will move the pad always on bottom and you will have to ty-rap your column. Im sure you want a professional gymnasium as it is your image. A smaller pad will unhide a part of the column and you could risk a lot of wound. Take the time to measure your column circumference and height to make a full protection.

On wall column padding is another type of column that you dont want to let unhide. This column is much more difficult to protect with pads because it needs to be screwed in the wall. Depending on your wall type, you could need help to screw it there and hold it at the same time. This column pad benefit are much more important than other column pads because it is fixed on the wall so, it is a much more tough to move from there.

Square Column pads are the most common type of column. The column protection is very important because corners are very wounding and need more column protection. This column pad can be protected for any size. Normally this type of column is for a judo club, gymnastic, martial arts gymnasium or even school gym.

There are other type like corner pads, foam pads, post pads, goal pads that you must consider as a good protection for your gymnasium or your sport facility.

Column Pad vinyl

Most of the time column pads are covered with Gymtec-18 or Gymtec-24 vinyl. For a gym owner that has not much money should invest in Gymtec-18 for a good protection. If you are looking for a professional protection with a deluxe performance, you have to go with a Gymtec-24 vinyl.

Column Padding Mats

What else is important you would say, the most important part of your column pad is the foam inside. There too you have two choices. Marafoam #110 is the economic one but will probably last less time than the deluxe foam. Protection is almost the same because it is more thick. Protected by a 2″ foam your gym safety will be the most you can do. As I said, to get a better protection, Trocellen 1¼” is the best choice.

Anyway, most of manufacture will probably have 2 packages, an economic column pad and deluxe column pad that will include everything we said above. If you have more question about your gymnasium column pad, feel free to contact us at anytime info@webclic.info .

Different Wall Padding Types

There are different types of wall padding, let’s see what are these types. A standard panel of wall padding is normally 2′ x 6′. These panel are hold by an aluminium finishing strip that will help to stick the wall padding against the wall. There are different ways to fix the wall pad on the wall, a long term fix is bolt on the wall or you can also mount it to a channel.

What I do if my gymnasium is not standard ?

There is no problem with that, dont worry, a good manufacturer will be able to cut-to-order your gym wall padding pieces to fit in your gymnasium. You can also, if you have it, bring a plan of your gymnasium and tell to your manufacturer where are electrical outlets and thermostats.

What If Gymnast are hitting the wall heavily ?

There are many solution for this type of problem, most of expert will install a very thick gymnasium wall padding at least ¼” to 2″ of foam. There are 2 different types of foam, marafoam which is the cheapest one and Trocellen highest quality. Don’t hesitate any time to buy the best even if it will put your budget on the line, this is a long term solution for security.