SnapSports(R) Athletic Surfacing Named Official Sport Floors of the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association’s 2012 National Championships

April 17th, 2012

SnapSports® Athletic Floors & Outdoor Game Courts, will provide the official athletic surfacing for the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships, to be held April 11-16, 2012, at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, UT. SnapSports multi-patented, highperformance hockey surfacing, will be the official floors for the games, where college elite will gather to compete for the title of National Champion.

SnapSports, is the industry leading manufacturer of premium athletic surfaces, designed specifically to accommodate aggressive play and engineered with safety and performance in mind, making SnapSports floors the top choice of both coaches and athletes the world over. SnapSports multi-patented technology delivers unmatched shock absorption, engineered to withstand competition at the highest levels, and traction, giving an added level of “cush”, reducing the impact on players joints and limbs, allowing athletes to play longer today and for years to come.

“SnapSports, has a strong commitment to encouraging athletic participation in youth and young adults, and is proud to have been chosen for the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships, held right here in our backyard at the Utah Olympic Oval, in Salt Lake City, Utah.” – Jorgen Moller, CEO, SnapSports.

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SnapSports® Basketball Surfaces to be the Official Courts of 2012 Reno ‘AAU Spring Jam Championships’

April 3rd, 2012

SnapSports® Athletic Surfacing will provide the official flooring for the Jam On It 2012 Reno AAU Spring Jam, to be held March 31 – April 1, 2012 at the Grand Sierra Hotel & Resort in Reno, NV. All tournament and championship games will be played on SnapSports multi-patented, high-performance athletic surfacing.

The Annual Reno AAU Spring Jam, hosted by the Jam On It Basketball Academy, now entering its 21st year of tournament hosting and recognized as one of the premier tournament event operators in the country, and the Pacific AAU, bring together young athletes of various skill level and age, together to compete and celebrate their passion for basketball. All of the games played during this two-day tournament, will be played on SnapSports® multi-patented Athletic Surfacing, the preferred flooring of, Jam On It – All Under One Roof Basketball Tournaments.

“The Flooring is awesome, (the players) love it, the way you install it, the way you clean it, the way we set-it up, it’s second to none and we tried all of the others” – Matt Williams, Tournament Director, Jam On It –All Under One Roof Basketball Tournaments

SnapSports® Athletic Surfacing, is the industry leading manufacturer of high-performance modular sports surfaces. SnapSports patented BounceBack® surfaces, are designed specifically to accommodate aggressive play using patented ShockTower® technology, which provides superior shock absorption, and eases the impact on joints, creating a safer playing surface for athletes.

“We are excited for the opportunity to continue our long-standing relationship with this outstanding organization, and provide the type of high-performing sports floor these young athletes need to perform at the top of their game” – Jorgen Moller, SnapSports, Inc.

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SnapSports® Athletic Floors Introduces Their New Maple TuffShield® Sports Flooring, an Industry First

February 6th, 2012

Unlike competing modular sport surfaces, which apply thin films and painted coatings, which tend to easily wear and peel, TuffShield incorporates a multi-patented, 100% in-mold technology for unmatched durability, quality and consistency.
“The feedback from sport facility managers, coaches and players has been incredible. The players and fans love the play and look of this system. Year after year, our team is committed to developing the industry’s best and top performing products, and I am proud to say they knocked it out of the park again with TuffShield Maple. ” – Jorgen Moller CEO of SnapSports, Inc.
SnapSports®, recognized as the worlds leading manufacturer and supplier of premium athletic surfaces, is no stranger to innovation in the sports flooring world. SnapSports continues to introduce the industry’s leading performance sports flooring products year after year. SnapSports Athletic Floor offerings include both commercial and residential outdoor multi-courts and indoor gymnasium surfaces..
Some of SnapSports’ exclusive technologies include ShockTower® – a full-suspension floor system with 16 resilient shock absorbers per square foot, inserted into the sub-structure, providing an added level of “cush” to reduce impact on athletes joints and limbs during play; ShockLock® – an interlocking system which lets individual modules slide during impact, but keeps the entire sport surface fully engaged. This built-in “give” eases player joint impact and creates a safer athletic surface; BounceBack® – a full-suspension modular flooring system with an understructure that performs as a high impact shock absorber, reducing fatigue and injury to athletes. Each square foot of BounceBack weighs in at over one pound, stands ¾” tall and contains nearly 1,200 shock absorbing support towers. It is the industry heavyweight.

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SnapSports® Sports Flooring Receives EN-14904 Certificate Of Compliance

October 25th, 2011

SnapSports®, the worlds leading manufacturer and supplier of premium modular sports flooring, has successfully fulfilled the necessary requirements to pass EN-14904 testing, the quality & performance benchmark for the European Union Standard on sports flooring.

“The EN standard was created to differentiate between various performance levels and allows flooring products to be developed for specific sport applications and meet a worldwide standard. SnapSports® flooring has been engineered for use in various applications and performance levels. Our indoor and outdoor Bounceback products can be customized to meet any performance requirement with our proprietary and patent pending shock tower system.” – Jeremiah Shapiro, Director of Product Development, SnapSports®.

EN-14904 standard clearly defines acceptable sporting characteristics for force reduction, vertical deformation, grip and slip performance expressed as a coefficient of friction, ball bounce as well as technical characteristics including resistance to indentation, rolling loads, impact and abrasion and other factors which affect the long term performance of a sports floor. SnapSports® has passed the mandatory Force Reduction, Vertical Deflection, Ball Rebound, Resistance to Impact and Resistance to Indentation requirements to successfully comply with the EN-14904 standards. There is only one EN standard ensuring uniform testing for athletic floors. This will result in less confusion and a set of criteria that can evaluate floor performance in a more uniform manner and creates a larger selection of floors in the marketplace.

“The addition of EN-14904 compliance makes a clear statement to our international customers about our commitment to manufacturing the top performance and safe play athletic floors in the industry. The team at SnapSports® strives continuously to improve our products, systems and engineer the most advanced modular sports surfacing in the industry, which is why we have emerged as the clear industry leader today.“ – Jorgen Moller, SnapSports®.

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SnapSports® Selected For The U.S.A. 3-on-3 Hoop it Up® / FIBA® Championship Basketball Court In New York.

September 20th, 2011

SnapSports® has been selected to provide the official Championship and Elite level basketball court for the first U.S.A. 3-on-3 Hoop it Up® Tournament with FIBA®, the world’s governing body for the sport of basketball. Players will be competing on the multi-patent SnapSports BounceBack® basketball court, the industry’s top rated outdoor court in performance and safe play. The event will be held September 24-25, 2011 in Brooklyn, New York, at Brooklyn’s Baseball Stadium, MCU Park, Home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. SnapSports will be providing nearly 3,000 square feet of outdoor sports flooring for the 52’ x 56’ championship outdoor basketball court.
As an approved FIBA associate manufacturer with the most extensive modular sports flooring line-up in the industry, it was a natural choice for FIBA and the Hoop It Up® organization to choose SnapSports as the championship court for this event.
The SnapSports BounceBack® outdoor basketball surfacing, a multi-patent full suspension flooring system, has the highest shock-absorption rating of any modular sports surface in the industry. The multi-patented ShockLock® technology and the under-structure of the BounceBack® sports surfacing, provides a “cushion” effect easing impact to players joints while increasing ball response in sports like basketball and volleyball. With nearly four decades in manufacturing and supplying premium athletic surfaces globally, SnapSports® is recognized as the world’s leader in premium modular athletic surfaces and outdoor multi-game courts.
“ We were thrilled to learn FIBA and Hoop It Up choose SnapSports® as the championship court for this major U.S.A. event. A true testament to why SnapSports is recognized as world’s leader in high-performance outdoor basketball courts and athletic surfacing.” – Jorgen Moller, SnapSports.
Founded in 1989, the ‘Hoop It Up’ National Tour is the largest most recognized 3-on-3 basketball tour in the world, the 2011 National Tour will visit approximately 35 markets this year. One of the biggest differences between the 3-on-3 game and its 5-on-5 counterpart is that it’s played on a half-court, where games consist of two 5-minute halves or are capped at 21 points—whichever comes first. The 3-on-3 game is fast paced with a 12-second shot clock, so teams can’t stall if they build a lead and shots outside the 3-point arc are worth two points and baskets inside are a point.
FIBA Development Director Kevin Bovet stated, “ I am pleased to have SnapSports as the Championship Floor in New York a very important test location for FIBA Hoop It Up.”
FIBA, the international governing body of basketball, began an initiative a few years ago to have the game of 3-on-3 added as an official Olympic sport, in a similar fashion to volleyball, which features both beach and indoor. The end goal and hope is to have the 3-on-3 basketball game recognized in the 2016 or 2020 Olympic Summer Games. FIBA feels that not every country can assemble 12-person national teams because of the cost or lack of talent. However, there are many nations that can put together competitive 3-on-3 teams because it is less expensive to develop, train, and compete.

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