Training systems and methods
AssigneeVxt Sports LLC
InventorsPreston Carpenter Cox, Robin Birdwell Cox
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Abstract
A method can include providing an object having a size smaller than a size of a known regulation object, projecting the object, via a delivery device, toward a trainee, and training the trainee to follow the object. A method can include determining a game parameter of a game trajectory of a sports object that was projected along the game trajectory in a real-time sports event, and based on the game parameters, adapting a delivery device to deliver a training object along a training trajectory that mimics at least a portion of the game trajectory, with the training object being smaller than the sports object.
Claims20
A method for sports training comprising:
- projecting, via a delivery device, a first object toward a target or a trainee;
- then impacting a friction device of the delivery device with the first object;
- imparting a first spin and a first deflection to the first object in response to impacting the friction device, thereby projecting the first object along a first trajectory toward the target or the trainee;
- automatically adjusting, via a controller, one or more parameters of the delivery device;
- projecting, via the delivery device, a second object toward the target;
- then impacting the friction device with the second object;
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- imparting a second spin and a second deflection to the second object, thereby projecting the second object along a second trajectory toward the target or the trainee.
A method for sports training comprising:
- projecting, via a delivery device, a first object toward a target or a trainee;
- impacting a friction device of the delivery device with the first object;
- imparting a first spin and a first deflection to the first object in response to impacting the friction device, thereby projecting the first object along a first trajectory toward the target or the trainee;
- automatically adjusting, via a controller, one or more parameters of the delivery device;
- projecting, via the delivery device, a second object toward the target;
- impacting the friction device with the second object;
- imparting a second spin and a second deflection to the second object, thereby projecting the second object along a second trajectory toward the target or the trainee;
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- tracking the first object along at least a first distal end portion of the first trajectory that is proximate the target or the trainee;
- scoring a performance score of the trainee to track the first object along the first distal end portion of the first trajectory;
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- based on the scoring, increasing or decreasing a distance of a second distal end portion of the second trajectory along which the trainee is configured to track the second object prior to the second object arriving at the target or the trainee.
A system for sports training comprising:
- a delivery device that projects a first object toward a target or a trainee along a first trajectory and a second object toward the target or the trainee along a second trajectory, the delivery device comprising:
- a propulsion device that propels the first object or the second object through a barrel, having a center axis, toward a friction device that imparts a spin and a deflection to the first object or the second object as the respective first object or second object is propelled toward the target or the trainee, wherein the friction device is automatically controlled to vary the second trajectory of the second object compared to the first trajectory of the first object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.