Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1993-06-16
1994-06-14
Shapiro, Paul E.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
A63B 6900
Patent
active
053203429
ABSTRACT:
A basketball shooting training device, of both direct and an indirect training aid nature and benefit; i.e., it is direct in the sense that practice with it is practice for accuracy while being forced to shoot with a recommended shooting technique, and indirect in the sense that practice with it helps, and in effect practically forces, the development of that recommended shooting technique itself, thereby assuring the avoidance or breaking of a tendency or habit of using undesirable force from a one-hand shooter's other hand or from of that other hand's thumb, and thus assuring better and more consistent one-hand shooting.
The device is a sort of harness-like apparatus, having a special control member which provides a rather rigid even though yieldable restriction to the user's "other" or guide hand or its guide thumb and to its or their use during the shot. The control member is a tension member, yieldable in form, and of a moderately stiff yield character of about 1.5 inches per pound; and it has a ring at each end, one ring to hook onto the user's "other" hand's thumb, and the other ring is a connecter ring which slidably connects the control member to a carrier strip carried by a shoulder strap which passes over the shoulder of the user's "other" hand.
The ends of the shoulder strap are fixed, respectively, to frontal and dorsal portions of a torso belt, providing a firm base of the carrier strip and control member yet providing that the control member is slidable as it rearwardly moves along the carrier strip as the user is achieving a push shot effect and movement by his shooting hand, and training the shooter to use only a decreasing amount of the objectionable force input from his "other" hand as he trains with this training device.
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Shapiro Paul E.
Spray Robert A.
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