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**karaburatoreror** · 02-17-2006, 10:12 AM

I am trying to get some feedback on flooring that would be good for kendo. Most locations available for practice and possibly a Dojo all have concrete floors or tile over concrete. The dojo I train at was built for kendo and has a nice sprung floor (cold as heck on the feet during winter with the 4' unheated crawl space) , yeah were kinda spoiled. What kind of options have you guys come across to help make real hard flooring suitable for kendo practice.

I do Iai here in town and we use borrowed space from a Karate school. The flooring consists of puzzle piece foam practice mats. Usually we are to lazy to pull it up for Iai practice (nice on your knees not the best for good form). That type of floor isn't real condusive to kendo practice however. Ive contemplated using that as an under flooring and putting plywood and wood flooring on top, which might provide adequate cushion and a smooth floor. I have been looking at cork flooring on the internet but I have never seen cork flooring. I have an idea for making a platform supported by coil springs which would be cool, but more permanant and very impractical. There is the possiblity of having to move and it would be cool to make something that could be transported and reused with "minimal"
effort. I have considered using laminate flooring as it snaps together and in the event that a move is nescesary you could dis-assemble the flooring and reuse it.

Those are my thoughts on the matter, I am curious if anyone has some better ideas or thoughts.

Thank you,
Logan

p.s. If there are any sites or previous discussions on similar matters I would be interested in some links, I have personally struck out with my searches.

02-17-2006, 10:12 AM	#1
karaburatoreror Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 407 Senior Member	Kendo dojo flooring I am trying to get some feedback on flooring that would be good for kendo. Most locations available for practice and possibly a Dojo all have concrete floors or tile over concrete. The dojo I train at was built for kendo and has a nice sprung floor (cold as heck on the feet during winter with the 4' unheated crawl space) , yeah were kinda spoiled. What kind of options have you guys come across to help make real hard flooring suitable for kendo practice. I do Iai here in town and we use borrowed space from a Karate school. The flooring consists of puzzle piece foam practice mats. Usually we are to lazy to pull it up for Iai practice (nice on your knees not the best for good form). That type of floor isn't real condusive to kendo practice however. Ive contemplated using that as an under flooring and putting plywood and wood flooring on top, which might provide adequate cushion and a smooth floor. I have been looking at cork flooring on the internet but I have never seen cork flooring. I have an idea for making a platform supported by coil springs which would be cool, but more permanant and very impractical. There is the possiblity of having to move and it would be cool to make something that could be transported and reused with "minimal" effort. I have considered using laminate flooring as it snaps together and in the event that a move is nescesary you could dis-assemble the flooring and reuse it. Those are my thoughts on the matter, I am curious if anyone has some better ideas or thoughts. Thank you, Logan p.s. If there are any sites or previous discussions on similar matters I would be interested in some links, I have personally struck out with my searches.
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