UPDATE:
From Coach Dave Harris …
… taken from Planning Facilites for Athletics Physical Education and Recreation-
Richard B Flynn, Editor and Contributing Author for AAHPERD… the lighting requirements/ recommendations were “courtesy of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America”. In a “general” exercise and recreation area they suggest 35 footcandles … but in a gymnastics facility they suggest that be 50 footcandles-
So, your gymnastics gym should be 50 footcandles. No darker than 35 footcandles.
Next step … I’m going to have someone measure our facility.
=== original post:
At my club we are looking for information on how much light we should have at night in the gym.
OK, actually, we are looking for the minimum amount of light recommended for a safe gym. (Utilities are expensive!)
Like most warehouse gyms, ours is very dimly lit. (Photographers hate it.)
One textbook recommends 20 footcandles in the outfield of a softball baseball stadium to a high of 100 footcandles or more in the infield.
Basketball 60-100 footcandles.
Swimming 50-100 footcandles.
Leave a comment if you have any knowledge about adequate lighting level.
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If you can’t see your hand in front of your face, it’s too dark.
My name is Dave Harris-
I am a Men’s artistic coach and Tumbling coach at Oakville Gymnastics in Ontario- also a FIG Level 3 tumbling judge-
I also have a 3 yr diploma in Interior design and I have partial degree in Phys-ed from Lakehead -
I know I have a textbook for sport facility design in storage- I will try and pull it out in the next day or two and let you know-
I do know that lighting is definitely discussed and for all sorts of sport requirements-
I will send a reply asap-
Bye for now-
moon light works for me
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