Custom Netting for Sports Training Facilities
Sports training facilities and athletic stadiums generally require custom netting in order to solve a variety of safety and protective situations. For instance, many indoor sports training facilities require netting in order block or barricade certain areas of the space for individual practice zones. In other cases, there are nets that are needed as a barrier to protect spectators or bystanders from flying balls or gaining equipment. And other times the netting is necessary to protect structural elements of the facility area itself – for example lighting and seating barrier applications, scoreboard protection, and parking lot or vendor area protection needs. In fact, there are many unique and individual needs for netting – and every sports stadium or training facility has its own set of situations that are very well solved with the installation of customized netting productions available from Gourock.com
Throughout the years, we at Gourock have supplied many, many training facilities and sports stadiums with their customized netting solutions ranging from indoor multi-sport commercial establishments to major universities and professional stadiums, as well as upstart private sports business and municipal/scholastic installations. Gourock.com supplies a wide variety of mesh sizes and twine thicknesses, all made per-order according to customized sizing and shape needs. The mesh and twine options for the netting selections will be applicable for different types of sports and uses. For instance if a gymnasium or sports facility is primarily concerned with barrier netting for larger object sports like basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, or dodgeball – then a bigger mesh size netting option like the 4″ opening is a popular selection. Alternatively, many sports facilities also need barrier and containment netting for smaller-sized sports balls as well such as baseball, tennis, softball, field hockey, and lacrosse. In this case the 1-3/4″ mesh size nylon netting is a good considerations. And then going even smaller, for training facilities that also want to include sports like golf, Gourock has 3/4″ mesh netting options available as well.
And then, aside from the options of mesh size that you can consider for your sports barrier netting needs, there are different twine thickness available to go with as well. Lighter weight (thinner) twine thicknesses like #12 or #15 are great for general containment, or light/moderate abrasion situations. Mid-range twine thicknesses like #21 and #30 are the most commonly selected for all-purpose situations. And then thicker twine thicknesses like #36 and #72 are generally popular for netting installations that expect to undergo a fairly consistent level of high-abrasion wear and impacts over time.
Gourock does mail out free netting samples for your research and information, so if you do want to get some samples of the materials that you are considering, feel free to drop over a message through our contact page with your mailing address to get the samples mailed your way (USA locations).
Through our Online Netting Calculator you can very easily price and order netting built to most any dimensions that you require – it’s a very refined and efficient process that allows for quick ordering and sourcing of custom netting prepared to your own specific sizing needs. But for many commercial installations and at sports training facilities, there are very unique sizing and shape requirements that our customers need for their netting productions. For instance, many baseball and softball stadiums need some of the nets to incorporate tapers or angles in the netting shape so that the material can fill-in odd-shaped areas. Or in some cases there need to be special finishing or production features incorporated into the final design – such as entry door areas, particular bordering necessities, or internal wind-lines or attachment ropes that run through the netting in certain locations. Gourock.com has a lot of experience supplying very customized netting designs and shapes/sizes – and feel free to send us over a request through our contact page (you can upload diagrams, images, and details as needed) and we can get started on a quotation for your particular goals.
Throughout this company blog as well as on the Gourock.com site we have many examples of custom netting designs and productions that have been shipped out over the years. Here are 3 recent examples form the previous few weeks that demonstrate some of the very specific custom netting jobs that have been delivered and installed at 3 different types of sports training facilities. These are all very different, and are each for unique situations – and they help in demonstrating some of the custom nylon netting productions available through Gourock.com
Example 1
netting details: #36 X 1-3/4″ twisted-knotted nylon, square mesh pattern
custom features: specific dimensions, overlapping door/entrance areas, webbing/grommeting bordering where specified, polyester rope bordered where specified
intended use: commercial basketball facility, barrier and containment netting
Example 2
netting details: #72 X 1-3/4″ twisted-knotted nylon, diamond mesh pattern
custom features: tapered/angled shape, polyester rope bordering, specific sizing necessities
intended use: commercial soccer facility, goal top-shelf containment (high abrasion)
Example 3
netting details: #21 X 1-3/4″ twisted-knotted nylon, diamond mesh pattern
custom features: tapered/angled shape, polyester rope bordering, specific sizing necessities
intended use: commercial baseball and softball stadium, spectator/backstop barrier and protection