8" Safety Mats - Size: 7' x 10'
Pick the perfect thickness for your program! Our 8" Safety Mats are
built for toddler and preschool rooms where just a little extra
protection is needed. Our 8" mats are the workhorse of most gymnastics
and tumbling programs. Try our 12" mats where extra protection is
desired. All 8" and 12" Safety Mats have Breather Mesh sides
and feature double stitched top surfaces. Your color choice of:VinylMesh* Foam: 1.8 lb density x 50 ILD polyurethane * Cover: 18 oz vinyl coated polyester surface * Heavy duty #10 YKK zipper * 2" polyester web handles on all sides Single Fold and Bi-Folding Styles Available... Add our Hook and Loop Attaching System! Call our sales office for prices.
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Octagon Training Ideas
Suggestions from real coaches, instructors, and Mancino customers Our Winning submission for most creative idea:
Suzi from Stow MA writes:
Tilt the mat against your low bar,supported by a tilted trapiod, tie a climbing rope to the hi-bar. lay your back against the mat and using only your arms climb the rope until you reach the top of the mat and slide down! to try it again!
1. Lynne from Moscow ID writes:
Before we had a Tumble Trak we 3 placed 8" landing mats together end to end. The first mat had a large wedge placed under it. The girls would start from the top and step into their roundoff and tumble down the mats onto the others. The mats were springy and gave the girls the extra confidence to tumble their new tricks before taking it to the floor.
2. Dawn from Empire Gymnastics writes:
We utilize our 8" - 5'x10' landing mat, as a large slide/hill for our preschool classes! We do this by pulling it up over our vault tables rounded edge side. With the help of spring boards & trapezoids under the 8" mat, and in front of the vault table to create a sloping/slanting effect. THE KIDS LOVE IT!
3. Billy from Great Falls MT writes:
We have both boys and girls and we use the 8inch for the beam and bars for the boys.
4. Tawnita writes:
We do "Superman drills for vault blocking" Gymnasts underarm circle to jump from a stand to stretch like "superman" against a vertical padded mat to drop flat onto the 8" 5'X 10' mat.
5. Carol from Lawrence KS writes:
We like to use them for "mountains" in preschool and to use a snow covered mountain to slide down into the pit. In preschool we drape the old ones over a bar and put stackables under it for support.
6. Shirley writes:
We use a folded panel mat, place it lengthwise and slide it up to the end of the landing mat. When teaching round-off backhandsprings to beginners, they do the round off on the panel mat, and are spotted on their backhandspring on the landing mat. The extra padding makes them more confident while learning and if they do land on anything other than their feet, the thickness of the mat prevents injury.
7. Daniel from Greer SC writes:
My most unique use of an 8" landing mat would be as a throw in mat at Parallel bars for training double front salto to upper arm support. Mat is thrown in for landing single salto on feet, 1 and 1/4 onto chest and finaly 1 and 3/4 roll-out onto back.
8. Lee writes:
I like to use 8" mats for "Dragon Races". I use gym chalk to draw a dragon on a couple of mats and have the kids race, dragging the mats across the floor. Great conditioning for run power -and great fun!!
9. Kelly from Colorado Springs CO writes:
* At the end of an In-ground trampoline as an end deck mat, dismount mat, and for training drills.
* In the pit for Double Mini Drills
* On the spotter bed of a Double Mini Trampoline for training Mounter Drills.
* Under a basketball hoop for Acro-Dunking!
10. Lisa from Bedford TX writes:
* We use the 8" mat for vaulting. We punch from floor and handspring over the mat to land on floor. We also place an octagon mat to help with hollow body roll up from the hands to feet.
* We place a panel mat in front of the landing mat with a space between the two. Turn the 8" sideways. We use the mats to help with lengthening our tumbling. Roundoff over panel and backhandspring over 8" mat. We stack two and learn whips. 3 mats for high backhandspring to hollow landing for layouts.
11. Casey from Toledo OH writes:
We have 2 coaches hold the mat upright and have the gymnasts sprint down the vault runway and "knock" the mat down and fall on it-- increases running speed toward an object (a soft one instead of the hard table) and it´s FUN!
12. Clint from Elmhurst IL writes:
In our gym we place two of them end to end with a 24" octagon under the middle of each. This creates a "wave" in which our preschool students can climb over to help improve their gross motor skills of crawling and balancing. Needless to say, most of them use it for rolling or sliding down after climbing to the top, but they have a blast each and every time.
13. Tom from West Warwick RI writes:
Use against wall and have the gymnast 2 feet away with their back to the mat. They practice pushing/jumping backwards into a "hollow" position. This teaches them proper direction for back handsprings and teaches not to through head and hands back to early.
14. Suzi from Stow MA writes:
Tilt the mat against your low bar,supported by a tilted trapiod, tie a climbing rope to the hi-bar. lay your back against the mat and using only your arms climb the rope until you reach the top of the mat and slide down! to try it again!
15. Claudia from Gym America writes:
In pre-school we play "flip the pit". All of the kids line up on one side Ð pick up the mat and try to flip it to the other side. They hang on and when it falls to the other side they all land on their bellies laughing! They do this all the way down the floor and back!
16. Melissa from Littlefield Physical Therapy writes:
I work with kids with disabilities who fall often. To improve coordination, balance and help them learn to play with their peers in an age apporpriate manner I often need to teach kids how to hop. When trying to get them to learn to balance on one foot and hop we first do 2 footed "rocket jumps" (arms overhead fingers pointed up in the prayer position). I tell them their toes are all the chambers for storage of the rocket fuel. Then I have the mom or a sibling blow some bubbles. I tell them the bubble are filled with rocket fuel they have to try to pop 10 bubbles with one foot in order to get enough rocket fuel to reach the moon. (The moon is a big therapy ball they love to be rolled on.) I help stabilize and bounce them at their hips. Sometimes we both fall down and crash the rocket (Thank heaven for a thick mat). But enentually we get enough fuel to land on the moon, which means they have learned to hop on one foot!
17. Joseph from Newtown Square PA writes:
We use this mat exclusively when training Poponovas. It makes it more fun for the gymnasts.
18. Terry from EnVision Gymnastics writes:
We use an 8" to play "Great Wall of Cartwheel"! We put the 8" mat upright against the wall and have our kids do cartwheels on a line right next to the mat to help them go straight. Helps alot for beam! Sometimes we use 2 and do "sandwich- wheels" to really keep the kids going straight!
19. Joanne from San Gabriel CA writes:
When training handspring vaults for those who are just starting to learn them, we use a stack of mats similar to the Level 4 mat stack, but sideways so it is not so wide, with an 8" mat sideways at the back end creating a slope so vaulters learn to keep a straight body line as they learn their handspring vaults.
20. Sally from West Palm Beach FL writes:
Having had tordados and hurricanes go though we have learned how to get under the mats in tme of warnings. The closest call west past our gym on the other side of the street.
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