Training device for a game of hockey
OwnerDerek Pappasinventor
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Abstract
A training device for a game of field hockey. The training device can mount to a standard hockey stick to guide the movements, limit certain movements and guide spatial positions of the hockey stick while practicing. The training device further includes control and monitoring methods to help a user maintain the correct path of a hockey stick in the X, Y and/or Z axis of travel. The training device facilitates the user maintaining the stick face and toe on the ground and on the ball during the left to right and right to left motion, likewise with forward or reverse motions. It also keeps the stick on the ball during the rotation over the ball.
Claims20
A field hockey training system comprising:
- (a) a rotatable cam-shaped disc having a peripheral rim and an optional rounded edge;
- (b) a tower configured to support a field hockey stick, the tower being either (i) permanently affixed to the cam-shaped disc, or (ii) adjustably positionable in an X-Y plane of the disc and optionally adjustable in angular orientation;
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- (c) an optional aperture or aperture channel formed off-center in the cam-shaped disc and configured to receive a movable tower interface when the tower is adjustable, wherein rotation of the cam-shaped disc about its axis causes the field hockey stick supported by the tower to rise and fall in accordance with variations in the radial distance between the peripheral rim of the disc and a reference point aligned with the tower, such that when a radius of the cam-shaped disc is perpendicular to the tower surface the elevation of the stick changes in correspondence with the cam geometry, thereby rotating the stick from a toe-up orientation to a toe-down orientation as the stick moves up, across or over, and down the opposite side of the ball, while maintaining the stick in contact with the ball or at a controlled elevation above the ball during the rotation, such that the ball does not move backward and the stick remains continuously engaged with the ball, and wherein, during said rotation, the toe of the stick contacts the ground on the reverse-stick side and the bottom of the stick contacts the ground on the front-stick side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.