Converting an Indoor Field Into a Court Virtually Overnight - Game-Changing Technology
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Recently we had a chance to go back and visit our old friend Bruce To at BT Sports Academy and this time what we did, we showed Bruce how to convert a concrete floor into a fully functional soccer training facility utilizing our Ultra Base Max. So y’all probably remember three or four months ago, we introduced you to Bruce To and Bruce did this amazing project down in St. Petersburg, Florida where he took an existing junkyard if you will, and converted it into a soccer facility that now trains … Even the Tampa Bay Rowdies are coming there to practice, using the champion panel and an inch and three quarter turf with a rubber and sand infilled system. And it has been a great success for Bruce and his business is growing and the acceptance of the community is getting greater every day. It’s wonderful to see because what Bruce’s goal was, was to make this facility be available to kids of all ages, of all economic situations to come and play.
Converting a Concrete Floor Into a Highly Performing Synthetic Turf Field With Ultra Base MAX
But he now has an indoor facility which is next door, which is an old garage, and the goal was to take this concrete floor and turn it into a soccer training facility, a mini-pitch if you will and so Bruce contacted us. We went ahead and looked at it and he didn’t know about Ultra Base Max because we had been kind of keeping it a little bit of a secret and we brought a panel to him and he fell in love with it like I did. And so what we did is, we donated about 2500 to 3000 square feet of this panel to Bruce. He had already purchased a 5 millimeter, non filled turf with a felt back on it as a surface. And what his goal was initially, he was going to glue it to the concrete. I can’t think of anything worse to do than that, but as soon as he did that, he’s now lost that turf and because he’s in the growth stage of this company, the fact of the matter is, he may need to change this out in a year and expand it. The idea of gluing turf to a floor because you need to, to keep it from moving, just horrifies me and UltraBase eliminates that. So what we did is we went out, we brought the panels out and really in a couple two or three hours, we had laid the panels into the confines of this existing rink. Took us a little bit longer than normal because we had to actually cut some of the panels to go around this inner wall and the way the panels are designed, it makes it really easy to do so. We’ve changed the locking feature of Ultra Base Max to make it much more simple to install and it really proved to be. We had this thing down in probably two hours. We had the whole area covered.And then Bruce and his guys came in and covered this over with their non filled turf and did their seaming and low and behold, they had a completely high grade training facility for soccer.
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Now we went back in and did some GMAX testing and this is what has just got me … I knew it when I invented it, but I love to see it actually in practice. We were able to achieve on concrete with Ultra Base Max, with a 5 millimeter, non filled turf, we were able to get GMAX around 84. And what makes our 84 GMAX so incredibly special is that the energy restitution numbers are extremely high. In fact, we just had field hockey testing done at one of the international labs and our energy restitution blew them away. How? With a non filled field hockey turf, we got great GMAX, but we also created world class energy restitution. So in Bruce’s facility, what MAX did is we were able to convert a concrete floor that before, he had painted it with like a tennis court type of paint. It was kind of abrasive and he was dealing with abrasions, scrapes, cuts, concerns about kids falling and hitting concrete. It was not a good scenario. We went in there and less really, less than a day, we changed everything for him and you can tell by the video that will play here of Bruce enthusiasm. He got what I got. We are able to change the way sports facilities can be created. So again, in just several hours, we transformed an unusable concrete floor into a state of the art sports training facility, in this case, for soccer. It could’ve been for any PT, physical training. It could’ve been for lacrosse practice. It could’ve been for football. It could’ve been for virtually any sport. But that’s what UltraBase does. We are in the business of converting and transforming areas that were once this, into something that are so much better. But here’s the beautiful thing. You could always take it back the other way if you need to. We always say, “You never lose your investment with UltraBase.”
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So a guy like Bruce, whose got a facility that is growing, we don’t know … He doesn’t know how long he’s going to be there. His hopes are to blow that building out and have to build a bigger building. He won’t lose a dime of the turf that he invested in or the panel. So we wanted to show you this one also. Very, very proud of it. There is no doubt in my mind, it’s going to be the first of many. In fact, we’ve got a couple major purchase orders right now that are going to be very exciting to share with you. It’s going to be a game changer for Innovative Base Technologies and my company. A lot of attention’s being paid to everything we’re doing. But MAX in particular, has captured the attention of a lot of specifiers. So take a look at this. See how we did it. We’re here to help you understand it and you too can turn any area into a sports facility that you can be comfortable, that your players are safe, mom and dad’s happy and you as the owner know that you’ve decreased your liability.
