Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Occupational or athletic shoe
Patent
1996-03-15
1998-04-14
Patterson, M. D.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Occupational or athletic shoe
36132, 36133, 36 75, A43B 1318, A43B 502
Patent
active
057378584
ABSTRACT:
Soccer training shoes are provided having ball contact elements that cause a soccer ball to more readily bounce away from the foot of the user. In one aspect of the invention, a training device is provided for temporary attachment to the shoe of a soccer player for providing hard inside and outside ball contact elements that cause a soccer ball to more readily bounce away from the foot of the user and thus promote the development of the "soft feel" that is desirable for catching, trapping and dribbling activities. The training device is essentially in the form of a web of straps that encompass the toe and instep portion of a soccer shoe and with forward, intermediate and rear transverse straps each being provided with a relatively hard ball contact element for location along the vamp of a soccer shoe in the immediate region of the inside and outside edges of the sole of the shoe. The transverse straps are positioned so as to place the ball contact elements in closely spaced relation to collectively define an elongate strip of relatively hard ball contact material on the inside and outside edges of the soccer shoe. The web of straps defining a major portion of the training device may be composed of elastic material to permit the device to be easily assembled to and disassembled from a soccer shoe. In another aspect of the invention, soccer shoes may have ball contact elements permanently or releasable attached to them. Shoes may be originally manufactured with ball contact elements molded therein or attached thereto. Used soccer shoes may be converted to training shoes by permanent or releasable attachment of ball contact elements thereto.
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