Crash Pad - Custom/DIY

Adding 2 layers of 1/4 matting really helped deaden the dropped weight. It works for log, sandbag and keg fairly well so far. It also helps prevent the log from rolling off, or the tires tipping up on one end when using log, which happened a lot when I was using tires alone.

FOUND SOME HIGH DENSITY FOAM AND MATERIAL FOR OUTER SHELL OF THIS FOAM AND HAD A LOCAL UPHOLSTERY COMPANY PUT TOGETHER SOME PADS AND COST LESS THAN WHAT YOU WOULD BUY

I found someone throwing away some carpet padding. Cut and folded it to shape and wrapped the whole thing up with layers and layers of duck tape. It’s ripped several times but all it takes is a few more strips of tape and it’s as good as “new”

Got a 2nd hand pair of pads from Marketplace. "Fitness Foam" brand. Great for doing dumbells overhead or stones. Gotta be careful about stones bouncing. Leaving something on the pads for an extended period of time will leave an indent

The trick is to find someone leaving tires out on their curb for free. They left 4; I took two of them. Next have some leftover rectangles of horse stall mats. This might not work for something crazy heavy, but it kills the weight when it drops. The thing that drops some of the performance and build quality are the sharp edges of a dumbbell or a rock coming down at an angle on the horse stall mat. If you ride the weight down just a little bit, that will help. This is a great value when you factor in the tires were free and the horsestall mat was more or less superfluous (I bought one too many).

This was my crashpad before I invested in a name brand one recently. Easy to move and got the job done.

Sold as a kickboxing pad but repurposed as an Atlas stone and circus dumbell crash pad