It is used on baseball diamonds,[1] running tracks[2] and long jump run-ups, and hard-surface association football, netball, cricket, and field hockey pitches in the United Kingdom.
[6] In 1964, the Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre included a Redgra training area and separate football practice pitch.
[3][10] Pat Ward-Thomas, a writer for The Guardian, noted that contemporary surfaces often failed to provide smooth, precise, and predictable ball movement but praised the Redgra pitch's performance.
[17] Redgra has a reputation for causing abrasions and splinters when sliding on it compared to grass,[3][18] and its hardness contributed to injuries when falling on it.
[8] Since the 1990s, many Redgra installations for field hockey and association football have been supplanted by newer all-weather surfaces, such as artificial turf, that are more similar to natural grass or have impact-cushioning layers.