Astroturf rant

Silver · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Karma :

I appreciate the intention and application of astroturf but why, oh why, does it maintain the cushioning properties of barbed wire wrapped around a cheese grater?

I'm currently sporting a lovely four inch wound near my elbow from a less than graceful tumble two nights ago while I was playing football. I was hardly moving at the time, and was just taken off balance during a tackle which has left me looking like a retard who falls off his bike without leathers on. Two days on and it's barely started healing and still hurts like feck when I knock into it. It's only just got past the "sticking to everything it touches and leaving manky goo everywhere" stage. Nice.

Surely in this day and age someone could invent a playing surface which doesn't become a swamp after a light drizzle but also doesn't make someone look like they've been mauled by a shark if they lose their balance. Tarmac would be better... It's not like astroturf excels in the department it's designed for; our all weather pitch is often deemed unsafe (and closed) after heavy rainfall or frost! Rolling Eyes

pyx_e · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Karma :

Good astroturf pitches are watered daily. Lot less friction.
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Mudskipper · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

The pitches we play have an awesome soft astro that doesn't graze. It's covered in tiny black rubber 'beads' instead of the usual grit of normal astro (lovely picking that shit out of your knee Sick

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So it does exist, it probably just costs more.

https://www.playfootball.net/

('Rubber Crumb', seems it's called)
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Banned · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2009 Karma :

Sandy astros for hockey keep off!

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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

But you will have some nice scabs to pick when it all dries up.

If you like that sort of thing Shifty

I vote for shop/offiice carpet(carpet with a number 0 cut) to be banned to, its just a cheese grater. Cant even sit on it without getting an itchy arse.
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MattHirst · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Karma :

Played 5-a-side with some mates a few times in bradford (called Goals iirc if anyone knows it). They seem to have that rubbery stuff.

Even though i managed to fall over a few times, didn't get any grazes and despite my shit attempts at playing football, seemed to be a pretty good surface.

I remember the sandy astroturf stuff at high school though, was aweful. If rugby was cancelled due to frost (pussys, i would of played regardless) we used to go on the astroturf to play football or whatnot.

Almost as bad as falling over on the indoor sports halls with the shiney floors, friction burns on epic proportions Crying or Very sad

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mistergixer · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Karma :

Serves you all right for playing football and (therefore) being ghey.

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the grim reaper · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Karma :

Back in my rugby days, we used to play against Andover, which is basically one large military base, so their rugby teams tended to be full of super-fit, psychotic nutters. If that wasn't bad enough, their pitch was on top of an old landfill site and was 99% sand, 1% grass.

The friction burns from being dragged across wet sand were lovely, to top it off they always beat us as well, usually through being ten times fitter.

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Luke_Retrofly · Silly Lesbian Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Karma :

Yes it seems the way that club rugby teams sort out their shit churned up pitches is to chuck a tonne of sand on it.

I never liked the skin on my knees and elbows anyway Razz

Carl_steveo · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Karma :

Our local astroturf is more like sandpaper. If you fall over you get a hell of a deep graze. Worse than that though is the sand. It gets in your shoes and socks your picking it out of your toes in the bath its horrible.
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Bad astro surfaces are the work of the devil.

The only permanent scar I have on my whole body is from Astroturf.

Run over by a car - 1 week in hospital - no scars.
Fell over on some astro turf - permanent arm disfigurement.