We are currently playing badminton in our companies warehouse (indoor) and the flooring is concrete. We do not have the luxury of buying rubberised mats and hence we decided to play on the concrete floor. We are aware that playing on concrete flooring is not good for our knees but with our resource constraints we are forced to play on concrete flooring courts. Our existing concrete court is slippery and hence we painted the court with anti slippery paint but still the court is slippery and not 100% safe from slippages. Kindly advice on what is the ideal way to prepare the flooring for the concrete flooring. Your advice would be highly appreciated.
1. Buy good shoes that can cushion your feet and protect your knee. good if it also has some grip. 2. Buy PVC/vinyl flooring coating and stick it your concrete floor with a good glue (cyanoacrylate glue types are good) 3. beore you decide to buy, test the PVC/vinyl flooring by stepping on it. feel the hardness, softness, grip and slippery of it. also be careful of static electricity
You could try a cheap "staging/exhibition" carpet in a plain colour which you could then paint on the lines. It may still not softening the impact on your joints but will allow grip. Not too many cheap options out there.
Get a good pair of badminton shoes & then replace the insoles with a set of Gel insoles. I tend to go for a pair of Sorbathane insoles, If you do a bit of a google they get discussed every now & again. Work well for me.