What is a Reduced Vibration Sports Floor?

Vibrations are everywhere. Sometimes they are a good thing like in a musical instrument, but often they are unwanted and cause problems.

High performance sports flooring is designed to give back some of the energy an athlete puts into it. When an athlete jumps, they press downward on the floor. The floor is deflected or compressed under this force. As the force the athlete applies peaks and then begins to reduce, the floor begins to decompress or deflect upward. This process gives back some of the energy the athlete used to deflect the floor. This is the quality we refer to as a floor’s resilience. The same process takes place to a lesser degree when a basketball is dribbled.

Vibration is the uncontrolled compression and decompression of the floor. Every resilient floor has a frequency at which it rings (vibrates). A reduced vibration floor is designed to minimize this ringing while still returning the most amount of energy possible.

Horner Sports Flooring’s ultra high performance Zenith system uses a two stage resilience design to provide a low vibration, high energy return system.