Basketball training device
OwnerJohn Okerlininventor
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Abstract
A basketball player's training device is designed to maintain the player's elbows in close proximity when making practice shots. It includes a pair of sleeves that are stretchable and snuggly fit over the forearms of the player adjacent to the elbows, and a stretchable member that interconnects the sleeves during use. At one end of the interconnecting member, the device is equipped with a releasable fastener of the hook and loop type for fastening the member to the sleeve and which can be easily manipulated when the sleeves are on the player's forearms.
Claims3
A training device for a basketball player comprising a pair of sleeves that are adapted to snuggly fit on the forearms of the player, and elongated means interconnecting said sleeves for maintaining the players' elbows in close proximity, said elongated means being an elongated narrow and flat resiliently stretchable member with opposite side faces and opposite ends, said sleeves having respective outer side faces, said member being fastened at one of its opposite ends to one of said sleeves and in an arrangement where one of the opposite side faces of the member facially confronts the outer side face of said one of said sleeves, and said member being releasably fastened at the other of its opposite ends to the other of said sleeves and in an arrangement where the other of the opposite side faces of the member confronts the outer side face of the other of said sleeves.
A training device for a basketball player comprising a pair of sleeves that are circumferentially resiliently stretchable and adapted and arranged to snuggly fit on the forearms of the player, and an elongated narrow flat and longitudinally resiliently stretchable member interconnecting said sleeves for maintaining the players' elbows in close proximity, said member having opposite side faces and opposite ends, said sleeves having respective outer side faces, said member being fastened at one of its opposite ends to one of said sleeves and in an arrangement where one of said opposite side faces of the member facially confront the outer side face of said one of said sleeves, said member being releasably fastened at the other of its opposite ends to the other of said sleeves and in an arrangement where the other of the opposite side faces of the member confronts the outer side face of the other of said sleeves, said member being releasably fastened to the other of said sleeves by interconnected hook means and loop means, one of said hook means and loop means being fastened to said member, and the other of said hook means and loop means being fastened to said other of said sleeves.
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