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Sports Turbo Groover

Ski-style skids spread pressure like snowshoes on powder
Holds a uniform groove depth on floors that compress
Clean cuts on straight runs, sweeping curves & inlays
Cuts tough sports-floor composites cleanly
Run the 18A blade and every seam matches

The first time you groove a cushioned sports floor, it does something no floor in training ever did — it moves under your tool.

You push, the cushion gives, the groover dips. You ease off, it lifts. With a wheeled tool, that means your depth is wandering the whole way down the run and you can’t even feel it happening — until the welds come out uneven on the most visible floor in the building.

Sports jobs are the marquee work: gyms, fieldhouses, courts — the floors people actually stand on and stare at. Getting trusted on one is how a new installer levels up. Fumbling one is how you get sent back to flat goods and told “maybe next time.”

And experience won’t save you here — even veterans fight a wheeled groover on cushion. The problem isn’t your hands; it’s the contact patch.

So change the contact patch.

The Sports Turbo Groover rides on flat, ski-style skids instead of wheels. They spread the tool’s weight across a wide surface — like snowshoes on snow — so it stays level even as the floor compresses under you. Your cut stays steady and uniform no matter your pace, on straight runs, curves, and inlays alike. Load the SKU 18A blade and every seam comes out matching the one before it.

Show up to your first sports job with this and you’ll cut consistent, weld-ready grooves on a floor that throws veterans off. That’s the kind of thing that gets remembered when the next big gym job comes up.

Make the cushioned floor behave — and make a name on the work everyone watches.

Verified Turbo customer
★★★★★
“With 40 years on the installation side of the flooring industry — the Tarkett Sport Vinyl kit we used on multiple sites has been a game changer. I’d highly recommend his tools to anyone doing heat-weld installation.”
Larry M. · Verified Google review
All-in-one option

Want it all in one kit?

Chasing sports work? The TSK Tarkett Sports Kit pairs this groover with the Chiquita automatic welder — the full pro setup, so you’re ready for the marquee gym job before you’re even asked.

See the TSK Tarkett Sports Kit · $6,000 →