Hi all,
A friend and I are taking on a small industrial unit at the start of the month and will be running a variety of classes.
At the moment it's just a concrete floor. We'll be renting the space out to other instructors for things like pilattes and yoga etc hopefully covering our costs.
We therefore need to a) cover the concrete b) have a matted area for ourselves.
Now, we can go the jigsaw mat route for the base, which is fairly cheap and easily cleaned so the yoga types have something to do their thing on and then when we train we can use normal judo type matting on top of that.
That's option 1, another thought is purely laying a carpet down to again create a comfortable base layer, covering with judo mats for martial arts sessions.
Just wondered if anyone had any other suggestions? maybe buying the foam seperately and covering from upholseterer or something.
The space isn't going to fit 2x1m mats in all the way round, we'd have to "adjust" them to fit so i'm not keen on the idea of paying £100 odd to then hack half of them apart and being as we'd need 26 2x1m mats, it soon becomes really expensive. We can of course by used ones but they aren't that cheap either.
Any help would be great. I don't think 40mm jigsaw mats are going to do the job for normal training sessions. They've always felt a bit hard to be. And equally just going for judo mats might not be the best choice for yoga etc. Getting 3rd party users to remove shoes etc will become an issue so we do need essentially 2 floor systems