The present invention relates generally to a structure design for a teaching assisting device for training of golf swing, and more particularly to a golf swing plane correction device that converts an abstract swing plane into a tangible form for exhibition for accurate and timely adjustment and modification and improvement of swing posture.
Golf is an interesting sport that is beneficial both mentally and physically and is fit to young and elder people, but is also a skill-relied and challenging sport. To play a good game, instruction by a professional trainer and long time practice are necessary. Every person who do golfing is aware that a correct swing motion and proper use of core muscle groups would make the shot long and accurate and also help prevent sports injury caused by improper posture. Thus, correct swing motions and use of core muscle groups are vital factors for plying golf.
However, the entire swing motion, from a standing posture before backswing to takeaway to a top point of swing (the upper body driving the lower body), and converting from the top point to a downswing to impact, follow-through, and final finish (the lower body driving the upper body), all require correctness of the entire body, upper and lower parts, including the head position, spine angle, natural angles of wrists, and standing posture and posture angle, through mutual collaboration through turning of two arms, torso, and hips to the motions of shifting of gravity center of two feet, to make a club to generate an ideal backswing and downswing plane and to completely release the force of the club head to make a shot of accurate shot direction and range. This can only be learnt through repeated and continuous practicing and correction. A beginner, in practicing swing training, often retain a trainer to assist in teaching and correcting swing motion and posture so as to ensure the club head is kept on a trace on a correct backswing and downswing plane. However, such a backswing and downswing plane is an abstract concept and can only be inspected by the experience of the trainer. Consequently, it is often not possible to effectively and correctly identify the deficiency of a trainee. The learning performance of the trainee would also be poor for not perceiving the concept of swing plane, or even leading to incorrect posture, making it harder to correct the posture in a later time.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a golf swing plane correction device, which involve a structure design that allows for exhibition of point-line-surface three-dimensional space to convert an abstract swing plane into a tangible form to make it possible to identify deficiency of swing and to make timely correction and improvement to thereby improve learning performance and enhance skill.
To achieve the above objective, the present invention comprises a bottom board, a shaft seat, and the two angle adjustment bars. The shaft seat provides adjustable resistance and is mounted to a top side of the bottom board. Two backswing and downswing plane angle adjustment bars are respectively and rotatably coupled to the shaft seat and are acted upon by the resistance of the shaft seat to allow them to be adjusted to any desired angles and positioned there. The angle adjustment bars each have an operation end jointed to a bar extending therefrom. The backswing plane angle adjustment bar is provided with two movable reference rings, wherein one of the reference rings is at a location corresponding to the deltoid muscle of the player and the other one of the reference rings is adjusted to a location corresponding to the hands at a top of the backswing. The downswing plane angle adjustment bar is provided with a movable reference ring, and the reference ring is at a location corresponding to an end of a club grip of the player.
To use, the correction device is set up at a rear side of ball impact direction so that an axis of the shaft seat is at a location corresponding to a ball position. According to the height of the player and a desired length of a club used, the angle adjustment bars are each adjusted to an optimum location such that the bars extending therefrom respectively form reference axes for correcting a swing plane for backswing and downswing of striking a golf ball. The two reference rings of the backswing plane angle adjustment bar are respectively set at locations corresponding to the deltoid muscle of the player and the hands at the top of backswing. The a reference ring of another downswing plane angle adjustment bar is set at a location corresponding to the end of the club grip of the player in order to observe and correct the correctness of swing posture. As such, with such a design of the correction device, through exhibition in a point-line-surface three-dimensional space, the abstract swing plane is converted into a tangible form to allow for effectively identifying the deficiency of swing for timely correction to thereby improve learning performance and enhance skills.
The golf swing plane correction device may be further provided with a vertical pillar that is provided, at one side where the two backswing and downswing angle adjustment bars extend, in a manner of perpendicular to the ground. The vertical pillar is coupled with a plurality of correctors for adjustment of height positions to allow for connection with the angle adjustment bars.
The golf swing plane correction device may be further provided with a conversion plane bar that is coupled, through a corrector, to the vertical pillar between the two bars. The reference rings are rotatably coupled to two ends of the conversion plane bar.
The foregoing objectives and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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The shaft seat 20 is coupled, in a resistance adjustable manner, to a top side of the bottom board 10. In the instant embodiment, the shaft seat 20 is provided on two ends thereof with support frames 21 mounted to the bottom board 10. The support frames 21 are each provided, on one side thereof, with a vertical board 23 that is formed with a shaft hole 22 to allow two ends of a central shaft 25 that comprises an elastic element 24 to fit over a middle portion thereof to extend therethrough for being supported and retained. The two ends of the central shaft 25 are each provided with a thread 26, and a nut 27 is mounted to the thread 26. As such, the two angle adjustment bars 30, 30a are respectively coupled, through shaft jointing, to the central shaft 25 at locations between outer ends of the elastic element 24 and the vertical boards 23 of the support frames 21. The nuts 27 respectively provided on the two sides are screwed inwardly to fasten the two angle adjustment bars 30, 30a and at the same time compress the centrally-located elastic element 24 (as shown in
The two backswing and downswing plane angle adjustment bars 30, 30a are rotatably mounted to the shaft seat 20 and are acted upon by the resistance of the shaft seat 20 to be combined to the bottom board 10 in a manner of being adjustable to and positioned at any desired angle. The bottom board 10 is provide, on the top side thereof, with a hub cover (not shown in the drawings). The two backswing and downswing angle adjustment bars 30, 30a each have an operation end that is coupled to an extension bar 31, 31a, wherein the bar 31 comprises two movable reference rings 40, 40a rotatably mounted thereto and the other bar 31a comprises a movable reference ring 40b rotatably mounted thereto. Each of the reference rings 40, 40a, 40b comprises a ring body inside which a tube 41 is mounted. The tube 41 comprises a flexible sleeve 42 received and coupled therein to allow the ring body to tightly fit over and attached to the bar 31, 31a in a manner of being slidable and positionable. Joint ends of the angle adjustment bars 30, 30a and the bars 31, 31a are respectively provided with threaded holes and threaded rods for combination through screwing, allowing for easy detachment and storage. The bars 31, 31a can each be a one-piece solid bar or a multiple-section telescopic or otherwise extendable/retractable bar.
Further, the angle adjustment bars 30, 30a of the present invention, in addition to being applied with a force by the adjustable resistance of the shaft seat 20 to adjust the angle thereof, are each provided, on a shaft-side end of the angle adjustment bar 30, 30a in a rotatable manner, with a collar 23 having ratchet teeth 32 and a pawl 34 having an end that projects outward is provided at a location corresponding to the ratchet teeth 32 so that the pawl 34 is normally in retaining engagement with the ratchet teeth 32 to provide the angle adjustment bar 30, 30a with an effect of one-way step-wise angle adjustment. When a user pokes the pawl 34 away from retaining engagement with the ratchet teeth 32, reverse movement for returning of the angle adjustment bars 30, 30a can be carried out (as shown in
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The shaft seat 20 is coupled, in a resistance adjustable manner, to a top side of the bottom board 10. In the instant embodiment, the shaft seat 20 is provided on two ends thereof with support frames 21 mounted to the bottom board 10. The support frames 21 are each provided, on one side thereof, with a vertical board 23 that is formed with a shaft hole 22. A central shaft 25 has two ends that are respectively provided with threads is fit with, in a middle portion thereof, with an elastic element 24 such that the angle adjustment bars 30, 30a are rotatably mounted to two sides thereof, and is received in the shaft holes 22 of the vertical boards 23 of the support frames 21 and is secured through screwing of nuts 27 provided on the outer sides of the vertical boards to forcibly compress the two angle adjustment bars 30, 30a that are on the two sides toward the elastic element 24 that is located at the center so that reaction forces generated and determined by the degree of compression of the elastic element 24 provides an effect of adjustment of the resistance (as shown in
The two angle adjustment bars are further provided, in the side where the bars 31, 31a extend, with a vertical pillar 50. The vertical pillar 50 is set up, in a manner of being perpendicular to the ground, at a location corresponding to the player 70. The vertical pillar 50 is coupled with a plurality of height-position-adjustable correctors 51 for respectively jointing with the bars 31, 31a (as shown in
To use the instant embodiment, the bars 31, 31a are respectively received through and coupled to the through apertures 55 of the corrector 51. One of the correctors 51 is adjusted to a point corresponding to the deltoid muscle of the player 70 so that the bar 31 defines, through connection of two points of the ground and the corrector 51, a standard backswing plane angle to form a reference axis for correcting the backswing plane. The reference ring 40 that is rotatably mounted to the bar 31 is adjusted to the position corresponding to the position of hands at the top of backswing. The other bar 31a, based on a reference of the club body 71, also defined a standard downswing plane angle through connection between two points of the ground and the corrector 51 to form a reference axis for correcting the downswing plane.
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To use the instant embodiment, similarly, the corrector 51 is used to adjust, with the deltoid muscle of the player 70 as a reference, the bar 31 to form a reference for correcting the backswing plane, and the bar 31a is adjusted, with the club body 71 as a reference, to form a reference axis for correcting the downswing plane. The conversion plane bar 60 is adjusted, through the corrector 51a, to the most suitable height and angle and then the reference rings 40, 40a at the two ends of the conversion plane bar 60 are respectively adjusted to positions corresponding to the top of the backswing and the impact point of the downswing, in order to form observation points for correcting the position of hands. During backswing, the bar 31 can be used to correct the club head 72 for moving along a correct backswing plane path. When the top of backswing is reached, the reference ring 40 of the conversion plane bar 60 can be used to observed if the hands of the player 70 are located at the observation point of the reference ring 40 (as shown in
It can be known from the above that the golf swing plane correction device of the present invention provides the following advantages:
(1) The correction device may, according to body height and club length, be adjusted to convert an abstract swing plane into a tangible form for effectively identifying the deficiency of swing posture and for timely correction to thereby improve learning performance and enhance skills.
(2) With such a tangle formed of swing plane, it is possible to guide correct use of the core muscle group of the sequence of use of the muscle group to enhance coordination among muscle groups and to timely use correct muscles to improve flexibility and enhance muscle power.
(3) It is possible to achieve excellent swing rhythm, stabilized relative balance of swing, improve swing performance and increase explosiveness.
(4) It is possible to achieve consistency and collaboration of swing motion, making swing trace more stable, faster, and smoother, to create an increased speed of the club head for effectively increasing shot range and accuracy of direction.
It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or two or more together may also find a useful application in other types of methods differing from the type described above.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the claims of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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106108592 | Mar 2017 | TW | national |