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The recent fear of illness being spread around the globe gives us a great opportunity to take a look at your school’s cleaning protocol. Viruses are most commonly spread with person-to-person contact however some viruses can also be transmitted through non-porous surfaces like grappling mats.Viruses have different half-lives. This means that after a certain period of time, let’s say 12 hours, 50% of the virus will remain, and then in another 12 hours 25%, and so on. This means that at any point in time an infected student may have left active and infectious cells on your mats or in your facility. Aside from the current news, the bigger threat to martial arts schools and students is the normal collection of skin infections that can be transmitted between students like ringworm, sta

Why are we in the business of martial arts?

Is it purely for the money? Is it because we want to spread the love of the art? Whatever your particular reason is, it is it’s the motivation that drives you to make it in for those early classes, or drives you to put in the long hours doing what it takes to grow your business. The purpose of this article is to help you identify all those different triggers that motivated your students to take the plunge and decide to get sweaty with a bunch of strangers in pajamas at their first martial arts class.

Storm MMA and Training Center first opened on April 1, 2019. The gym originally started as an idea between two friends, who after training together envisioned a place where one could train in any style of MMA and be able to weight train all under one roof. Rarely do we see a gym offer this wide variety of classes, skills and coaches in one facility!

Dollamur Wrestling is committed to supporting the sport of wrestling worldwide. St. Mary’s Men and Women’s Wrestling program was excited to recently receive a brand new FLEXI-Connect Wrestling Mat, customized withtheir school logo! We were interested in learning a bit more about their program and community so we spoke with Coach Zach Weiss!

Dollamur FLEXI-Connect Fitness Flooring is great for any type of fitness space you may be creating. The convenience of their light weight and FLEXI-Roll feature makes set up and tear down quick and easy – Easy enough to use the mats in an outside studio like the team at Nalu Nosara in Costa Rica are doing! With the help of their Dollamur mats, they’ve created an outdoor studio surrounded by jungle views in order to bring yoga, gymnastics and other types of fitness to their community. Read on to learn more about their unique space!

Dollamur and Swain Hybrid Martial Arts mats are perfect for any discipline, from Karate, Judo, Aikido, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai and Tae Kwon Do, to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Krav Maga, Kickboxing, Defensive Tactics, Self-Defense and Striking. At BlackSmith Jiu Jitsu, in Niceville, FL, their team and their athletes are grappling on new FLEXI-Connect Tatami Martial Arts mats!

Are you familiar with Dollamur’s Yoga Flooring? If you’ve been to a yoga studio in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve experienced the comfort and stability of these mats resembling woodgrain hard-wood flooring! Our yoga flooring is quickly becoming the standard at professional yoga studios around the world.

Now that you can step outside and take a stroll outside without breaking into a sweat (here in Texas, anyways), it’s time to bring your workout outdoors! Roll out your 3’ x 6’ Dollamur mat, grab a quick stretch and then head out and have some fun – while bettering your physical and mental health! Bring along the kids or a workout buddy to make sure they’re making the best of the nice fall weather too.

Dollamur has partnered with Juan Carlos "JC" Santana of The Institute of Human Performance to create a mat built for the Speed, Agility and Quickness of their unique fitness programs. Be sure to get a closer look and chat with the Dollamur team at FIBO 2019!

California Interscholastic Federation has announced their renewed partnership with Dollamur Sport Surfaces. Dollamur has, once again, been named the Official Sponsor of the California Interscholastic Federation Boys and Girls Wrestling Championships and, for the first time ever, CIF Competitive Cheerleading. We are proud to continue our relationship with CIF and help support their interscholastic athletes by promoting equity, quality, character and academic development. The partnership will be effective after previous contract expires in August 2020. “Dollamur is proud to continue our relationship with California Interscholastic Federation and excited to expand our partnership to include both wrestling and competitive cheerleading. We’ve been the Official Wrestling Mat Sponsor for CIF Boys and Girls Wrestling for many years and are honored to now be the official mat for all CIF sports.” – Chuck Thompson, VP of Wrestling at Dollamur Read the full article through CIF here.