Soccer training apparatus
AssigneeEden Variety Products, LLC
InventorWilfredo Ganuza
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Abstract
An elegantly simple training apparatus that helps soccer players quantify, and improve, their kicking skills. The soccer training apparatus includes a cage having a base, and at least one hand railing connected to the base. The base has a front portion and a rear portion with a ball moveably affixed, or tethered, to the front portion of the base by an attachment mechanism. The attachment mechanism may include, or be connected to, a force measuring mechanism that measures the force exerted on the ball after a user kicks the ball. The soccer training apparatus may also include a force display unit that displays that force to the user. The hand railing may extend over the base rear portion and may have a resistance band attached, that may exert a force on a user's kicking foot during a kick.
Claims5
A soccer training device, consisting essentially of:
- a cage, said cage being formed of four vertical rails,
- said vertical rails being connected from their upper ends with two horizontal side rails, a horizontal back rail and a horizontal front rail where said side rails, back rail and front rail form a substantially square shaped formation,
- said vertical rails being also connected from their lower ends with two parallel horizontal rails;
- the two parallel horizontal rails being attached together with a horizontal front portion and a horizontal rear portion;
- a ball, affixed to the front portion by an attachment mechanism allowing the ball to travel a short distance to one direction when kicked;
- a force measuring mechanism that measures the force exerted on the ball after a user kicks the ball, and a force display unit that displays that force to the user;
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- a downward hanging resistant band attached to the horizontal back rail, said resistant band forming a substantially O-shaped ankle loop.
A method to train soccer, said method comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a soccer training device comprising:
- a cage, said cage being formed of four vertical rails,
- said vertical rails being connected from their upper ends with two horizontal side rails, a horizontal back rail and a horizontal front rail where said side rails, back rail and front rail form a substantially square shaped formation,
- said vertical rails being also connected from their lower ends with two parallel horizontal rails;
- the two parallel horizontal rails being attached together with a horizontal front portion and a horizontal rear portion;
- a ball, affixed to the front portion by an attachment mechanism allowing the ball to travel a short distance to one direction when kicked;
- a force measuring mechanism that measures the force exerted on the ball after a user kicks the ball, and a force display unit that displays that force to the user;
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- a downward hanging resistant band attached to the horizontal back rail, said resistant band forming a substantially O-shaped ankle loop;
- b) a user standing inside the cage and attaching his/her ankle into the ankle loop;
- c) the user kicking the ball;
- d) the force measuring mechanism measuring force that the user used when kicking the ball;
- e) the force display unit showing the measured force;
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- f) the user adjusting his kicking technique and kicking the ball again.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.