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The Story Behind the Mesmerizing Peeling Gym Finish Viral Video

Wood flooring pro Emory Stansal of Lantzville Artisan Wood Floors shares the story behind the crazy video where he peels off 30 years of gym finish.

May 27, 2022

Peeling Off 30 Years Gym Finish

Connor Sports Defends Integrity of Final Four Court

The manufacturer of the NCAA's Final Four court told ESPN on Tuesday that the spot on the floor where University of North Carolina star Armando Bacot injured himself flexed by design and had no structural defects.

April 6, 2022

Sports Flooring

See the Basketball Courts of the Top 12 Seeded Teams in March Madness

March 16, 2022

Nothing In Life Comes Easy: How I Started My Gym Floor Company

Wood floor pro and gym floor artist Luis Perez of Hero Flooring shares his story of how, as a young African American/Latino man searching for a better life, he began is gym floor business.

December 3, 2021

I’m beyond blessed for the struggles and hardships in my life, because they’ve led me to make the best out of the situations I’m dealt with.

Sports Flooring

Innovative Options for Creating Color on Gym Floors

July 17, 2020

With the newer technology in the gym coating business, we were able to add color without painting the floor during this recoat.

Sports Flooring

Gym Floor Designed to Create ‘A Sense of Belonging’

“You just don’t see that level of detail often,” The Sports Flooring Group Owner Brian Cockfield says of the striking design at the McCrorey YMCA.

September 20, 2019

Photos courtesy of Stadium

Sports Flooring

St. Louis Landmarks Recreated With Stain on Gym Floor

Missouri Floor designed a 2,500-square-foot arch that, at 129 feet tall and 129 feet wide, was a 1:5 scale model of the real arch.

December 5, 2016

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Sports Flooring

How They Do It: Pulling Off Today’s Bold Basketball Floors

A detailed look at how wood flooring specialists in extreme basketball court designs approach and execute their work.

May 24, 2016

Larger-than-life metallic Spartans on the new San Jose State University basketball floor created an out-of-the-box challenge for United Floor Services Inc. (Courtesy San Jose State University)

Sports Flooring

New Oregon Basketball Floor Unlike Any Other

When the University of Oregon Ducks basketball team squares off Jan. 13 against the USC Trojans, you can bet a fair amount of attention will be devoted to the floor in the $200 million Matthew Knight Arena. Oregon recently unveiled Kilkenny Floor, and the sporting industry has been abuzz over its bold graphics that represent a view from beneath a forest of fir trees.

November 10, 2010

Progress At Osu Matthew Knight Arena

Sports Flooring

Doing Recoat Work to Break Into the Sports Flooring Market

How is the gym floor market different when doing a recoat of the wood floors? This article examines the differences between residential and gym work.

March 31, 2008

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Felix Roman of Wood Flooring Doctor with his work van, which won Best Exterior Graphics in the 2022 WFB Truck & Van Contest.

Ingenuity On Wheels: See The Winners Of The 2022 WFB Truck & Van Contest

The top categories include Best Exterior Graphics, Most Organized Interior, Most Unusual Work Vehicle and Biggest Disaster, but we didn’t hit the brakes there.

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What I Learned Going From Residential to Gym Work

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Wood Floor Pro Makes Medallion Of His Dreams

This 4-hp, gas-powered big machine dates to 1951.

Gasoline-Powered Drum Sanders Beg The Question: ‘WTF!?’

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‘What Museum Lets An Artist Bust Up Their Floors?’

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