Thanks for all of the great feedback!
I'm opening a new place here in Los Angeles in an amazing facility.
For myself I'd want big wide open training areas (with no support beams), high ceilings and good natural light through windows and or sky lights. I much rather have a Lei Tai platform than a boxing ring or octagon.
I'd like to include some specialized apparatus. A giant (5 foot diameter) sphere made of granite:D, a 500 lbs hanging "wrecking ball", plum flower stakes, but really all I need is a big open training space.
I'll keep you all posted on our progress:D
Squirrel School Layout-ish
Since you mention...
I designed a dchool decades ago for Squirrel practitioners. There's the front office where parents might come in and guests can walk into the School. Then beside the frontoffice desk is the sliding door drop below the floor where there's a tunnel with the floor feet below--students enter the School through here; alternating hand and feet pressures between walls.
There is open area for forms to the right-hand side. towards the back is poles for Walking the circle. beside that are the slide down poles for exit from the second floor.
****her back is a section through a door to rails and poles and low walls for leg strikes and middle leve contact--arm and leg and moves conditioning.
Five lanes of conglomerate walls to climb between to get to the upper level. A place for candle practice striking.
That's about all I'd come-up with at some point, for my designed Squirrel School.
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