Educational experiences on a school playground
We at Lappset understand the importance of creating experiences that last a lifetime. That's why our playgrounds and outdoor sports are designed to be more than just equipment; they're also meant to provide educational opportunities in schoolyard playgrounds and daycare outdoor areas. We all have an obligation to ensure children acquire the skills needed for life – it starts with providing them access at early ages through quality facilities.
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Pocket Parks – the future of urban parks and playgrounds?
We’ve all heard the saying that, “bigger is better.” When it comes to designing parks and playgrounds, we know that the more room you have the more fun you can pack into the space allowed; but what do you do when there’s limited space and you still need to create an attractive and engaging place for local residents to enjoy, despite its smaller footprint? One potential solution is the pocket park. Never heard of it? Allow us to introduce you to it.
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To be sustainable, wood needs to have a long service life
Lappset is expected to meet stringent requirements in terms of product safety as well as sustainability. One of the secrets underlying Lappset’s durable high-quality products is wood preservation, a process that the Swan, the official Nordic Ecolabel, has included in in its sustainability criteria.
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Ageing actively in an increasingly inactive world: maintaining the strength, confidence and health of seniors
As recent as 2019, approximately 9 per cent of the world’s global population (over 700 million persons) were aged 65 year or older. With this figure predicted to more than double to 1.5 billion people by 2050, there is a lot of discussion going on as to how society can work to maintain and even improve the quality of life for this ever-growing demographic. Some of the most common concern pertaining to this group are that of physical abilities and social interactions.
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Wood is an ideal playground material from the design point of view
Before Lappset’s playground and exercise equipment reaches users, it undergoes a multi-stage design process, which is always based on the needs of the end-users. Lappset’s products are made from impregnated wood because it is a high-quality, environmentally friendly, durable and appealing material.
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Outdoor Gym Trends of 2022
While gyms and sports halls are still somewhat struggling to get their feet back under them, outdoor sports facilities and training equipment have leapt to the forefront of exercise; with many new products and innovations taking the world’s park and playground by storm.
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Parkour Circuit Training
One of the best things in parkour is that anyone can do it, at their own level and own style. We have created ready-made circuit trainings to inspire you to move and enjoy the multiple training options you have in our parkour parks!
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Midline- workout
If you were looking for an easy yet efficient workout for midline - you found it! This workout is also suitable for beginners.
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Play is active learning
Playing promotes learning by stimulating the entire body and leaving a memory of the learning experience in the nervous system. The physical activity involved in playing boosts memory and teaches creative thinking.
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Designing Dash Parkour
Design is an empathic way of thinking and working, and in our field, designer is the cross-field intermediary who needs to understand all the aspects of his/her subject to be really successful.
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What makes a good parkour spot
Parkour training has always taken place in various surroundings, mostly in structures that are characteristic to urban spaces but also in parks, even in the woods. The best places are easily accessible, firm and have interesting structures that promote creative movement..
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Girly girls and daredevils
In this blog post, Elina Hasanen, researcher of sports sciences, discusses the spontaneous sports activities of girls. Typical girly sports activities do not fit a single mould. So who fits into sports facilities?
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11 Unique Playgrounds
Playground can be something that either pops out or blends in and at its best, it also serves as a landmark for people to remember the location. We collected eleven unique playgrounds from all around the world for your inspiration. Which one is your favourite?
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Thinking about safety
Safety consciousness is considered different ways all over the world. Lappset Creative`s Country Manager from China compares differences between China and Finland.
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Wellbeing from nature
According to a study conducted by Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), almost every Finn has nature experiences. These experiences can be swimming by the summer cottage, a bead of sweat on your forehead when searching for cloudberries from the swamps, or perhaps a walk along the fitness trails in the nearby forest after a day at work. In any case, after a nature experience you often feel relaxed and revitalised.
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Play areas in the future
When I was a child I would run to the play area, desperate to fly down the slide backwards and head first, or jump off the swing at the full extent of its arc to see if I could still land standing up. The seesaw was another favourite, my brother and I would bounce up on the seat so hard that the other rocketed into the air, we would see how high we could make each other go, and stopped when our bottoms hurt from hitting the seat so much. But how long ago was this, how much have play areas changed and what is in store for the future?
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What is Parkour?
Lappset is committed to develop Parkour in France and it enables us to work closely with all the local players. One of the important partners is a parkour association called ADD Academy Finistère in the eastern part of France in Breton. There are five ADD academies in France: Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Finistère.
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Story about parallel reality
Let me tell you a story about parallel reality. In parallel reality, many things are the same as in our familiar reality, but some things are a little bit, and sometimes a lot, different. I will use myself as an example citizen of this parallel world and tell you about a normal day in that parallel life.
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How to find the motivation to exercise?
Why do I want to exercise? What keeps me going and what is the importance of exercise for me? If physical appearance or a single result is the only goal, motivation is difficult to maintain.
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Living environment
Aarni Mertala, Sport Concept Manager from Lappset Group, thinks that many sports have been invented inspired by our daily surroundings or by necessity imposed by them.
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Thoughts of play
How do you recognise play and playfulness? And what do children perceive as being play? What makes children play? In this blog, I will try to answer these questions backing up my ideas with research done in Finland and abroad.
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Life-long activity
A young child’s expanding sense of initiative is often observed within their curiosity, exploration and very active behaviour. Play is a natural component of a child’s everyday life and assists the child to make sense of his or her world, and learn about their bodies and movement capabilities. Children’s activities typically incorporates vigorous physical components, and is motivated through an inate drive to play, therefore it may be called as a physically active play.
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New requirements for sports and recreational areas
Playgrounds and fitness sites are increasingly perceived as a single coherent entity. And rightly so, because as children grow older, play develops into other types of physical activity. By the time they reach adulthood, they have hopefully adopted a lifestyle in which physical exercise plays an important part.
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Designing playground for a wide user group
It’s easy to distinguish a kids’ playground from a outdoor fitness site. However, designers tend to prefer that the area serves a wide range of users. Often the sites provide playground equipment for children and fitness equipment for adults. While it is fully possible to prepare a creative plan for such a site, it’s important to follow a few ground rules.
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Designed for children
When a designer is assigned to plan a playground, what do they consider first? Quite honestly: the money and the space available. In the worst case, the design process little else than fitting the playground equipment in place and calculating the costs. But is this good enough? No, nowhere near, but sadly this is how playground designers often tend to work.
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Bodyweight training
If you google the phrase “street workout” you will get more than 117 million hits. Street workout is a type of physical activity that has rapidly become a popular pastime of choice and is gaining new fans around the world.
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Playgrounds are interactive environments
Children are excitable by nature. They are innately full of enthusiasm and curiosity about their surroundings: the whole world is an adventure. A well-designed playground gives children endless opportunities to use their imagination and also appeals to parents.
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