Football and soccer kicking training aid
OwnerNoel P. Horkaninventor
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Abstract
A portable football and soccer kicking training aid which holds and kicks a football or soccer ball in a trajectory, and with a force, simulating a ball kicked by a trained player. The training device is used by coaches in controlled practice sessions, to train and evaluate defensive and offensive lines and backs, and other players, in their response to kicked balls. The device provides repeated, reproducible kicked balls without requiring trained kickers to perform these routine functions or exposing them to injury. Optional, replaceable kicking shoes and other components provide alternate trajectories and forces. The device is readily portable and does not require fuel or connection to a power source.
Claims17
A football and soccer kicking training aid comprising in combination a horizontal base frame, having a support for a ball, which may be a football or soccer ball;
- a substantially vertical support frame;
- a top assembly having a swing arm having a first and second end, said first end being attached to a swing arm shaft and said second end having a kicking shoe attached;
- said swing arm shaft having a first and second end, said first end having a swing arm shaft hub attached and said first and second swing arm shaft ends being supported by first and second bearings affixed in a top plate of said top assembly;
- a torsion spring having a first and second end, said first spring end being attached to said swing arm shaft, and said second spring end being attached to said top plate, so that rotation of said swing arm shaft in one direction by said swing arm shaft hub increases the torsion of said torsion spring;
- a swing arm shaft loading crank attached to said swing arm shaft hub, so that said swing arm second end may be raised to a substantially horizontal position;
- restraining and releasing mechanism attached to said top plate for restraining said swing arm in a substantially horizontal position, and for releasing said restraint, to allow said torsion spring to move said second end of said swing arm in a downward arc, so that said kicking shoe moves towards said ball support and would strike a football or soccer ball supported by said ball support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.