Throwing Target, System, and Method
OwnerStephen Joseph Stemleinventor
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Abstract
The present application is directed to a throwing target. The throwing target comprises a baseball strike zone, one or more target zones located in the strike zone and one or more target zones located around the strike zone. The throwing target also comprises one or more non-target zones located in the strike zone. The total surface area of the target zones located around the strike zone is greater than the total surface area of the target zones located within the strike zone.
Claims16
A method for training the act of pitching comprising:
- providing a throwing target having a strike zone and a plurality of distinct zones within and outside of the strike zone;
- designating each of the zones as either a zone for locating a thrown pitch or as a zone to avoid locating a thrown pitch, wherein the throwing target includes one or more zones outside of the strike zone designated as zones for locating thrown pitches higher on the throwing target than the strike zone;
- targeting a zone for locating a particular type of pitch;
- and
- throwing a selected pitch in an attempt to contact the targeted zone.
A method of training the management of throwing particular pitch types in and around a strike zone comprising:
- providing a throwing target having a strike zone and a plurality of distinct zones within and outside of the strike zone, the throwing target including a lowermost border, an uppermost border and side borders having protruding sections located higher on the throwing target than the strike zone;
- assigning certain zones within the strike zone as zones to locate pitches and assigning zones bordering the left and right sides and lowermost border of the strike zone as zones to locate pitches, the zones bordering the strike zone having a surface area greater than the zones within the strike zone;
- targeting a particular zone assigned for locating pitches;
- delivering a particular type of pitch in an attempt to contact the zone targeted;
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- determining if one or more adjustments in an individual's pitching are desired based on the point of contact of the thrown pitch on the throwing target.
A method of training an individual's management of a baseball strike zone while performing the act of pitching comprising:
- providing a throwing target, the throwing target having a border including two obtuse angles defined by a distance there between, the throwing target having a designated baseball strike zone therein of a particular height and width, a plurality of zones outside of the strike zone assigned as zones for locating thrown pitches and at least one zone outside of the strike zone assigned as a zone to avoid locating thrown pitches, wherein the vertices of the obtuse angles are separated from the strike zone by both zones assigned as zones for locating pitches and at least one zone assigned to avoid locating pitches;
- targeting a particular zone for locating a particular type of pitch;
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- delivering a pitch in an attempt to contact the zone targeted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.