WAG Where to find good sliders?

[gymisforeveryone]

I'm trying to find some place online where to buy good and smooth actually slippery sliders for conditioning?

We have sliders in my gym but most of them are slightly convex and the surface is not as smooth as it could be so they don't slide well on the floor. We have maybe two pairs of actually slippery enough sliders but they are very small.

So do you have any recommendations? It's hard to buy them online because you cannot try them first.

If it matters, we have a Spieth Floor like this http://www.spieth-gymnastics.com/floor-spieth-en/

Also, I would like to find an European online shop so the shipping would not cost a fortune.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Jard.the.gymnast]

Not real sliders, but we use frisbees...they work quite nicely

 

[azara]

I've heard that furniture movers make very good sliders! You'll need to find ones with a shape you like, but here's an example of what they tend to look like: https://www.bunnings.com.au/tic-200-x-150mm-furniture-slide-glide_p4050038.

 

[Aussie_coach]

We use tumble track sliders and they get used a lot, by a lot of kids and last years.

 

[txgymfan]

I've heard paper plates work well too.

 

[Jmrhgymnast]

We use furniture sliders, they work well.
https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Fur...=1511961892&sr=8-3&keywords=furniture+sliders

 

[tucktwisttumble]

We used to use Frisbees

 

[Deleted member 18037]

I was hoping to find out where to get good food.

 

[fuzi]

We use furniture sliders, they work well.
https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Fur...=1511961892&sr=8-3&keywords=furniture+sliders

These are my favorite as well, and the price is right!

 

[hawaii_gymnast]

Crazy carpets (for toboganning) also work really well, just cut them into whatever size and shape you want. Might be hard to find if you live somewhere with out snow though.

 

[gymisforeveryone]

Thank you all! I ordered furniture sliders from one cheap Chinese online shop once and they were horrible, didn't slide at all on our floor. They looked like these: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pr...vy-objects-with-ease/1681006_32278561872.html

And we have one gymnastics product company around here and they sell sliders but they are not any better. They look like this: http://www.gymnastica.fi/kategoriat/liikuntasalituotteet/liukuritsliders/liukurit__sliderit_g-7006/

The ones that are the most slippery look like this: https://www.importitall.co.za/DIY-F...g-Sliders-Tool-for-Heavy-F-ap-B01N6NX5WE.html I don't know where they are originally from

Thanks for the recommendations! I think that floor covers are different and that's why some sliders don't work for us.

 

[gymisforeveryone]

Also I forgot to add that we don't have furniture sliders here in Finland because no one has wall-to-wall carpets around here

 

[wordsmith]

Thank you all! I ordered furniture sliders from one cheap Chinese online shop once and they were horrible, didn't slide at all on our floor. They looked like these: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pr...vy-objects-with-ease/1681006_32278561872.html

Agreed. Those are pretty bad.

And we have one gymnastics product company around here and they sell sliders but they are not any better. They look like this: http://www.gymnastica.fi/kategoriat/liikuntasalituotteet/liukuritsliders/liukurit__sliderit_g-7006/

Those look like the same kind as what Tumbletrak sells. They're pretty good, I think. Also, Tumbletrak now sells a larger size slider. Bought three of them at last National Congress. Been waiting for someone to produce something like that.

The ones that are the most slippery look like this: https://www.importitall.co.za/DIY-F...g-Sliders-Tool-for-Heavy-F-ap-B01N6NX5WE.html I don't know where they are originally from

I've only seen those in small sizes.

The best ones, imo, are Xpodz hand sliders; but the person who designed them (a former UCLA gymnast) currently isn't producing them. He's looking for a good marketer and business partner; or someone who wants to buy out his product. This is what they look like:

Plastic is patented and the surface bottom is also unique.

But hey! The bright side of using any inferior product that doesn't slide as well is that it will force the gymnast to work a lot harder to make it slide.

Socks work just as well as paper plates and frisbees.

 

[CoachAlex]

We use frisbees and furniture sliders - I think we get ours at Bed Bath & Beyond (but that probably doesn’t help you since you aren’t in the US).

 

[duyetanh]

Hah, my kid calls them pushers, so I too wanted to see what a slider was....I don't eat burgers though.

 

[&bs]

We use furniture sliders, they work well.
https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Fur...=1511961892&sr=8-3&keywords=furniture+sliders

We use these ones as well from Amazon. They are much better than any we could find in Australia.

 

[Jard.the.gymnast]

We use these ones as well from Amazon. They are much better than any we could find in Australia.

OP lives in Finland I believe, so shipping costs would probably be very high...

 

[gymisforeveryone]

Thank you all! I found those sliders from Amazon UK but they don't ship to Finland