Sports Product Review

It was awful. This past weekend, I was watching my teenage sons’ summer ball double-header at a high school field. They were playing on the JV field, which had a short, chain-link fence in the outfield. No warning track, no padding. I was out behind the center-field fence and a drive was hit in my direction. It looked to me, and apparently to the center-fielder, that it was catchable. He got a great jump, tracked it like he should and then, BOOM! Full-speed he ran face-first into the fence post as the ball went over. He collapsed on the field and for a moment I feared he was unconscious – or worse. Fortunately, after about fifteen minutes he did get up and was carted off the field. He appeared to be shaken, but all right.

That field isn’t safe. The fence is too short for high-school age kids, there is no warning track, but worst of all, no padding. That’s where a company like Promats Athletics (www.promatsathletics.com) comes in. Promats provides a wide variety of products designed to pad or protect chain link fence top rails, horizontal mid and bottom rails, as well as the vertical posts. That would have come in handy last weekend.

Promats does interior padding as well. They just finished the new indoor basketball practice facility at Indiana University, (my alma-mater). I was back in Bloomington a few weeks ago for my niece’s wedding. I took a tour of the place and its awesome. You can see what it looks like here. 

So, whether you are looking to pad these dangerous rails and posts, or simply protect against the fence mesh extending above the top rail, or need protection against the walls in your gym, ask the experts at Promats. They’ve have it covered.

Source: Promats