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History of Artificial Turf
by APSense News Release AdminSports, homes, and parks have an alternative to natural grass.
Synthetic grass has been using by
big parks, newly built homes, and many sports stadiums. But how artificial
grass was first introduced to the world and what was it made of then. Let us
dig deep some of its histories:
When it was invented?
Artificial turf
gained close attention around the 1960s when it was first installed in the world’s the first multi-purpose stadium in Houston name Astrodome.
People believed that
artificial turf was one of the best alternatives to natural grass. It was perfect
but players were not comfortable playing on it. It needed to be more compatible
for their run, dives when they roll the ball on the ground.
Number of injuries
happened, players started complaining about it and the bounce of the ball was
unpredictable.
There were few obstacles
which was needed to be solved before using it somewhere across the world.
Second Time:
In 1969, the football
match was played on the artificial turf. In the University of Pennsylvania,
natural grass was replaced with synthetic grass.
Next year, a hockey
match was played on it.
Revolution of
Artificial Turf:
In 2001, FIFA
approved synthetic turf to used for football matches. The football was the only
game which used to play on the artificial turf. By the time, baseball, cricket,
and tennis had started organizing their competition on the synthetic grass.
It used to design
with plastic, the quality of the turfs was not that upgraded which it must be
according to the games.
Revolutionary
changes were made in the manufacturing of artificial turfs. The supplier had to
designed sports surfaces according to the players’ demand and what game they play
on it.
Hence, they had
started using superior material to produce synthetic turfs. Using upgraded
machines helped to improve artificial grass’s quality by the time.
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