The Spieth competition Floor at my gym is too hard, in my opinion.
Kyle Shewfelt, 2004 Olympic Floor champion, only rarely tumbled on it during training. He mostly tumbled on our rod floor.
Now Scott Weller has developed a product he calls the “First Significant Improvement to the Spring Floor in 25 Years.”
(Scott was a former all-around gymnast at the University of Michigan and Arizona State University.)
Meets FIG, USAG, NCAA competition specifications.
WOGA, Aspire Kids Sports, Arizona Sunrays are using it!
Bill Sands has looked at it:
“I’m very pleased you’ve really followed through and appear to have a superior product. I’d like to see the test results and study the athlete/apparatus interactions, but congratulations on a job well done.”
Wm A. Sands, PhD, FACSM, C-ARS, NR/WEMT
Performance Services – Recovery Center Leader
U.S. Olympic Committee – 1 Olympic Plaza
Colorado Springs, CO 80909-5760
The pitch:
THIS TECHNOLOGY significantly reduces the peak forces transmitted to the athlete and the post-impact vibration in the floor. Lighter athletes can get more rebound while heavier ones will still have the full force.
THE WELLER spring comes up slower than it compresses (recoil). A slower recoil is almost certainly beneficial as tests have shown that spring floors can cause inadvertant knee bends during backward tumbling known as the “double knee bend”.
THE WELLER spring fits into the same caps in the floor now! So it’s easy to retrofit any spring floor. Just pop out old spring and put in the Weller spring!
It’s distributed by King Bars Sports in Arizona.
I’d love to see it in action. Leave a comment if you’ve tried it.
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