Concave martial arts platform with inclined constraint net
OwnerChristopher L. Hanseninventor
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Abstract
A platform for performance of personal combat martial arts is made with a concave upper surface having a central generally flat region for main performance surrounded by a border region that slopes upwardly to the platform periphery, so that instead of the traditional impasse and fight interruption experienced when a combatant is forced into the border region, ropes or corners of conventional flat fight rings, the action tends to continue and automatically gravitate back into the main central region without interruption. A full-height constraint net that slopes upwardly and inwardly further urges combatants away from the periphery and safely prevents bodily ejection, thus protecting ringside spectators while providing all spectators with a good view of the sports action.
Claims11
A sports enclosure for staging personal combat events for spectator viewing, comprising:
- a platform made and arranged to provide a substantially firm flat level unobstructed central region for main combat activity surrounded by an inclined firm border region that is made at least three feet wide in any radial direction from a center point of the central region and made to slope upwardly toward a periphery of said platform, whereby the main combat activity tends to remain largely confined to the central region due to a temporary advantage, gained by a combatant who has been forced into the inclined border region, that tends to cause the combat activity to automatically gravitate back into the central region without need for official intervention;
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- constraint means attached around the periphery of said platform and extending generally upwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.