1160 Steelwood Road
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Look through the Steelwood Fencing and Gymnastics training facilities
Fencing
The fencing room at Steelwood Athletic Training facility is one of the largest in the country with 14 electronic practice strips. This room allows Buckeye fencers to train more effective and efficiently to help them reach their ultimate goal of winning another NCAA championship.
Gymnastics
The Buckeyes have a facility that will help in the training of some of the country’s best gymnasts. The Steelwood Athletic Training Facility has approximately 15,000 square feet of workout area.
Along with the new facility, the squad has purchased new equipment that meets the latest FIG specifications. For every event OSU gymnasts have the ability to train into in-ground resipits, in-ground loose foam pits or a competition-landing surface.
There is not a lot of waiting around in the Buckeye gym, as they have at least two, three and sometimes even four sets of competition equipment. Additionally, there is an extensive pommel horse drills area with a number of learning aids and a ring strength area with five sets of rings.
Every piece of equipment except pommel horse has a variety of landing surfaces for the gymnasts’ safety while training. This variety of surfaces also helps alleviate some of the wear and tear on gymnasts’ bodies that leads to overuse and chronic injuries while training. As an example, our AAI/Palmer spring floor is set up to allow a gymnast to tumble onto the floor itself, onto a resipit or even into loose foam. These different landing surfaces allow a gymnast to train at an extremely high level at all times very safely.
Also, the gym has an in-ground tumbletrak that goes into loose foam, an Olympic quality trampoline that also goes into loose foam and a 60-foot rod floor that goes onto an in-ground resipit or into loose foam. Unique to the Buckeyes’ gym unique are the four vaulting stations in the facility. Two of the vaulting strips go into loose foam, one goes onto a resipit and still another is a competitive landing surface.
The Buckeye gymnastics program is proud of its gym, a facility that is considered one of, if not the best, gymnastics training facilities in the country.
