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10# Sand Bag Car Stop After 4 Years of Use

Testimonials, Demos, Product_Review
There is nothing like performance testing to confirm whether you have a good product and service. For the past fours years a 10 pound red sand bag has been used as a tire or car stop holding back a 1991 Volvo station wa...
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Field Striping Support for 5 v 5 Soccer World Record

Sports, Services
Tru Mark personnel helped strip a 5 v 5 soccer field for a local soccer club that set a new world record. Here's some audio from a local radio station announcing the record breaking moment. A practice football field wa...
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Soccer Field Layout Tool Testimonial and Suggestion

Turf _Tips, Testimonials, Product_Review
Testimonial: Just wanted to say thanks for publishing the spreadsheet for field layout (Soccer Field Layout Tool) as it has been a godsend. I usually due 8v8 fields and it is the fastest easiest way we have found to do a...
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Liquid Chalk Performance on Synthetic Turf Fields

Trends, Turf _Tips, Testimonials, Product_Review
More and more club and youth sports organizations are finding it difficult to schedule events on synthetic turf fields because the field owners do not want paint applied. In many cases they are experiencing a ghosting is...
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TURF-IE -- turf management covered in news and popular media

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips
Ross Kurcab has created a TURF-IE Facebook fan page where he covers turf management stories in the news and other popular media outlets. Ross stated, "I believe part of being a professional is being current with the ne...
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Fewer Injuiries Reported in 3-year Study--College Football Injuries on FieldTurf Versus Natural Grass

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips
A report on the official study entitled: “Incidence, Mechanisms, and Severity of Game-Related College Football Injuries on FieldTurf Versus Natural Grass: A Three-Year Prospective Study”. [http://t.love.com...
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Rigid Custom Sports Stencils

Turf _Tips, Product_Review
Tru Mark is now offering rigid plastic custom sports stencils. These unique stencils are manufactured from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) sheet plastic using an automated router table. Rigid Sports Stencils are for ma...
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Removable Field Marking Paint on Natural Turf?

Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
What do you do to remove field marking paint from a natural grass turf sports field? That is the question forwarded recently. "We are a major stadium in Australia that caters for rugby and soccer games. As these games ...
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Variety of Field Painting Challenges--Cleaning is #1 Issue

Turf _Tips, Services, Product_Review
We recently had a series of communications with a prospective customer asking about our field marking equipment. To help us better understand their requirements we generated a series of questions. We noticed from your w...
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Brand and Protect Your Indoor Facilities

Trends, Sports
Protect your players, facility and display your branding at the same time! As basketball, volleyball and wrestling begin to gear up it is time to look to your gym and indoor spaces to make sure they are as ready for the...
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A New NCAA Baseball/Softball Rule could impact your facility: Make sure you are ready for the season!

With player safety in mind, the NCAA has implemented a rule requiring hard surfaces, such as wood, brick and concrete, to be padded to protect the athletes from injury.  The rule: NCAA Softball Rule 2.15. We rec...
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Football Field End Zone Design

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
When you think about the aesthetics of a football field, we know that the sideline numbers, lines and hash marks are there to guide and regulate play. Let’s take the next step and explore options for beyond the goa...
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Football Field Painting and Stenciling Videos

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips
With football season around the corner it is a great time to get an idea on the scope of what is needed to prep your field. Not every field is going to need the attention, detail or man power of a premier D1 program or a...
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What You Need to Know When Painting your Logo on Tracks, Cement or Driveways/Sidewalks

Turf _Tips
Your team or organization's logo is important and is a symbol of pride. Painting your logo on grass is one thing, but what about hard surfaces such as parking lots, sidewalks and tracks? You can absolutely do this! The p...
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Baseball/Softball Mound Logos: Low Cost, BIG Impact

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips
Fields are and always have been a source of pride for each team. The way the field is displayed, on the other hand, continues to evolve. Fields turned into stadiums. The grass went from whatever was grown locally, to per...
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Softball and Baseball Field Logo Stencils

Trends, Sports, Turf _Tips, Product_Review
It's 2020 - time to update your baseball field! After the hard work of mound rebuilding, regrading diamonds and topdressing are done don't forget to add your team's identity! Painting your logo on your baseball or s...
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