Where Do You Find Wrestling Room Wall Mats?

Wrestling room wall mats provide the protection you want during grappling practice at school, at home, or at an athletic studio. These mats consist of cushioning foam padding with a durable cover or surface layer. The mat attaches to the wall in the practice room. Then, if athletes crash into the wall, they will greatly reduce their chances of injury.

Wrestling teams often practice or hold matches in tightly spaced rooms, some of which even have exposed support posts. While a small room is great for allowing the coaches to closely watch all of the athletes, it can also lead to collisions with the wall.

Even if you have a larger practice space, wrestlers can lose their footing while practicing certain moves, leaving them stumbling out of control toward the walls.

Finding just the right wrestling room wall pads for your practice area will depend in part on the thickness of the pads you want. Greatmats offers a multitude of pads that you can mount securely, creating the perfect cushioned practice area.

Gym Wall Padding

If you’ve attended a sporting event in a high school gymnasium, you’ve seen gym wall padding. This panel-style padding hangs on the walls of the gymnasium, creating a safety barrier.

You can use this same padding as wall pads for a wrestling room. The interior of each panel consists of a closed-cell foam wrapped in vinyl, which provides a high level of protection for the foam. With a thickness of usually at least 2 ¼ inches, it has plenty of cushioning to protect wrestlers. (PE foam compresses when placed under stress and bounces immediately back to its original shape.)

These panels are available in multiple sizes and multiple colors, so you can match your team’s color and coverage needs perfectly. You can even have cutouts included for wall outlets or doorknobs. You can order these pads to fit an interior corner of the room or to wrap around a corner near a door as well.

Dollamur Flexi-Wall Pad Roll

The Dollamur Flexi-Wall Pad Roll is an ideal choice for protecting MMA and BJJ athletes. These wall pads for wrestling room use come in roll lengths of up to 60 feet, so you can wrap them around rooms, support beams, and more. They’re a semi-permanent choice and are highly versatile.

The mats are crafted from a durable closed-cell cross-linked polyethylene foam, and they’re wrapped in a smooth vinyl surface. While they’re highly durable, and they’re also lightweight, ideal when you’re installing or storing them away. Their 1.25-inch thickness helps maximize shock absorption for enhanced athlete safety.

These wall pads are also available in numerous finishes, including custom options. You can choose from 14 vinyl colors, plus you can customize them with your logos and graphics for a unique and professional look.

Support Post Padding

If your wrestling practice room has support posts, you can order wrestling room wall mats that fit around the posts.

Some popular options include:

• Rectangular or Square Posts: Pilaster Flexible Wrap


• Round Posts: Pole and Post Padding


• I-Beam Posts: Channel Style I-Beam Pad

These mats offer 2 to 3 inches of foam wrapped in vinyl, delivering the perfect combination of cushioning and durability and transforming your posts into a safer padded feature.

Inexpensive Wall Pads

When you don’t need an especially thick level of padding in your wrestling room, there are some inexpensive options. These pads may work better in a home workout area where smaller athletes are just learning to wrestle (or just like to be rambunctious when they play).

The Grappling MMA Mats product consists of a firm type of EVA foam, so it has a high level of durability. At 1.5 inches in thickness, it has more cushioning than other types of EVA foam mats, but it does not compress significantly like PE foam.



An even less expensive choice for an EVA foam mat is the Martial Arts Premium Mat. It measures 1 inch in thickness, so it has a limited amount of padding, but it also carries a lower cost per square foot of coverage.

Connection Options

Some wrestling room wall mats will have a plywood backing attached to the foam. This gives the foam a sturdy shape, so it doesn’t sag. Oftentimes, the plywood back wall pad is hung on a chain-link fence outdoors, but you can use it indoors too. In indoor situations, it often extends past the foam a little, creating a lip that you can fasten to the wall without damaging the foam.

When hanging a folding gym mat on the wrestling room wall, you can mount wood strips or hook-and-loop strips to the wall and attach those to the hook-and-loop strips already built into the mats. They can also be attached using a screw and washer through the connector flaps.

Hook-and-loop connectors are another option for hanging wall mats for a wrestling room, such as with the Stage Pads product. This system securely adheres the mats to the wall, but you can also remove the mats when you need to return the room to another use case. You’ll find hook-and-loop connectors on wrap-around support post padding as well.

In most cases, adhesives are not needed for wall padding.

Order Wrestling Room Wall Mats from Greatmats

At Greatmats, we're proud to offer an extensive selection of wall padding for wrestling rooms. Whether you need to maximize athlete safety in a school or gym setting or want to create a practice room for use at home, we have padding products that meet your needs and requirements.

Contact our customer service team today to learn more about our wrestling room wall pads. We’re happy to help you choose the best product for your needs.