I've trained in several that had a thin carpet over concrete. I've trained on wooden dance floors & a very few schools with mats. How about your's?
What kind of flooring does your dojang have?
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Puzzle matts and flooring under them.
igillman
Purple Belt
Puzzle mats for the practice area and carpet for the entrance area.
Gordon Nore
Senior Master
It's a combination of what appear to be low-pile vinyl mats and puzzle mats, the latter of which I've never worked with before. The experience is unique for me, working on a fully-matted surface. In my past Hapkido classes, we had about three quarters hard floor, and the rest velcroed mats, which slipped a bit. Working on mats all the time is great. Adds a little more bounce to my step.
We have two sections of flooring for training. One is puzzle mats over concrete. The second is puzzle mats covered by a vinyl tarp pulled tight and tacked down around the edges.
The entrance and viewing or sitting area is wood.
The entrance and viewing or sitting area is wood.
Laurentkd
Master Black Belt
Currently we have puzzle mats.
Back in the day it was carpet on top of concrete.
While in college I taught on a wooden floor. I liked that the best.
Back in the day it was carpet on top of concrete.
While in college I taught on a wooden floor. I liked that the best.
Miles
Senior Master
Swain mats on the striking arts side of the dojang, and a blue/grappling rolled mat on the other side.
jim777
Master Black Belt
puzzle mats for us as well
chrispillertkd
Senior Master
My instructor's school has a nice wooden floor.
I've trained on mats, concrete, carpet, etc. and really prefer wooden floors. Easier on the feet and you can still do take downs without having to drag out pads.
Pax,
Chris
I've trained on mats, concrete, carpet, etc. and really prefer wooden floors. Easier on the feet and you can still do take downs without having to drag out pads.
Pax,
Chris
jim777
Master Black Belt
I personally find it a lot easier to do pushups, especially on your knuckles, on wooden floors. I'd love to train on wooden floors all the time and pull out mats once in a while for throws and breakfalls and the like, but we are in a 4H club barn so we're lucky to have a place at all 
It depends. I teach at a YMCA, and we are in two rooms, one on Monday, one on Thursday. The Monday room is a dance studio with a rubber/plastic tile floor of a type I've never seen anywhere else; the tiles are about a foot square and are raised from the surface they are attached to, which I think is cement - the bottom of the tiles looks almost like a bathtub mat, the type with the suction cups, but closer together. It's an odd surface (and slippery when dusty) but fairly gentle on the feet. The Thursday room is also a dance studio, but converted from a racquetball court, and still has the racquetball court wooden floor.
My sahbum's class is in a gym, which has a rubberized floor which took some getting used to; it's slightly sticky, but with very little give for the type of surface, not quite as good as a wood floor, but not bad at all. When I started, we worked out in a room that had a cement floor, so almost anything else is an improvement.
My basement workout space is puzzle mats over cement, which is nice, but almost too soft in some ways; it's hard to pivot on them, especially as I'm used to harder surfaces everywhere else.
My sahbum's class is in a gym, which has a rubberized floor which took some getting used to; it's slightly sticky, but with very little give for the type of surface, not quite as good as a wood floor, but not bad at all. When I started, we worked out in a room that had a cement floor, so almost anything else is an improvement.
My basement workout space is puzzle mats over cement, which is nice, but almost too soft in some ways; it's hard to pivot on them, especially as I'm used to harder surfaces everywhere else.
OP
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I once taught in an aerobics studio (in the late 80's) that had a wooden floor that was specially designed for aerobics. It had a rubberized underlayment that gave it bit of "give" to it. It was fantastic to train TKD on.
Same with ours. Most places I've trained at have had either the puzzle mats or school gym style mats over either tiled floor or thin carpet. I did train at one place years ago that had sprung hardwood.
Daniel
The best place was a wooden floor that flaoted, it was so nice but the cost is way to high to justify for me.
I tried to talk GM Kim into getting the puzzle mats that look like hardwood, but he decided to go with the red and blue. It looks very nice, but more modern.
Daniel
Daniel
