Patent Application
20240216775
The present invention relates to a waist support band for a golfer, and more particularly, to a waist support band for a golfer that is worn around a golfer's abdomen to surround the golfer's abdomen, thereby improving swing ability.
Recently, the number of people who enjoy golf is increasing due to the rise in the economic level of the people and the change in cultural patterns.
In order for a golfer to improve golf scores, it is necessary to accurately control a golf ball in the flow of actions from approach to address to impact to follow through.
In order to increase the driving distance during swing, accurate technique and impact power must be harmonized with each other in swing and impact. The better the core of the body is, the more the driving distance of a driver is increased.
Busy modern people utilize a variety of functional wear in order to reduce lesson hours and lesson fees and improve golf capability. Most of conventional functional golf wear utilizes a band to which a flexible PU film is adhered or a compressible band in order to highlight additive effects, such as to realize an accurate shot, prevent wound, hold muscles, and the like.
However, such conventional golf wear focuses on functional wear centered on the upper limbs (trapezius muscle, latissimus dorsi muscle, deltoid muscle, etc.), but development of auxiliary wear for the waist, which is most injured, is insufficient.
Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems occurring in the prior arts, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a waist support band for a golfer capable of helping to improve a driving distance when a golfer wearing the waist support performs golf swing.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a waist support band for a golfer capable of preventing back injury when a golfer performs golf swing.
To accomplish the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a waist support band for a golfer including: a waist support body made of an elastic material and having a cylindrical shape to surround the abdomen, the waist, and the back of a golfer; a rear special band combined with the inside of a back area of the waist support body and having stronger elasticity than the waist support body to hold the golfer's back muscles by getting in close contact with the back of the golfer; and a pair of silicon support shafts disposed on the outside of the waist support body to be perpendicular to both combined areas of the rear special band, thereby fixing the position of the rear special band.
Here, the waist support body is made of 70% polyester and 30% polyurethane, the rear special band is made of 100% polyester, and the silicon support shaft has a thickness ranging from 0.7 mm to 0.9 mm.
The waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention holds muscles necessary for swing when a golfer performs swing after wearing the waist support, and adds an elastic force during impact to transmit a strong force at the moment of impact.
The wearing results of the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention can be clearly confirmed through an experiment comparing a case in which a golfer wears the waist support and a case in which a golfer does not wear the waist support with each other.
Additionally, the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention includes the rear special band disposed at the back to limit excessive movement of the back muscles, thereby allowing the golfer to perform strong impact by reducing dispersion of the body center. In addition, the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention limits excessive movement of the waist to prevent back injury.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings, in which like reference numbers denote corresponding parts throughout the drawings.
The terms “comprising” and “including” in the discussion directed to the present invention and the claims are used in an open-ended fashion and thus should be interrupted to mean “including”, but not limited thereto.
As illustrated in the drawings, the waist support band 100 for a golfer according to the present invention includes: a waist support body 110 which is formed in a cylindrical shape, has elasticity, and is used to surround a golfer's waist; a rear special band 120 combined with the inside of a back portion of the waist support body 110; and a pair of silicon support shafts 130 vertically disposed at an area where the rear special band 120 and the waist support body 110 are combined with each other to support the rear special band 120 to maintain the position when the golfer swings.
The waist support band 100 for a golfer according to the present invention has effects of stably supporting a golfer's waist, which is the central axis, to reduce dispersion of the center of the body and make a strong impact by holding the core when the golfer wearing the waist support band swings, thereby increasing a driving distance.
Furthermore, the rear special band 120 disposed on the waist support band 100 has flexibility and compressibility to support and hold waist muscles, thereby preventing injury.
In addition, as illustrated in
The waist support body 110 is formed by mixing 70% polyester and 30% polyurethane. The waist support body 110 is formed in a cylindrical shape, and is provided with an upper margin to seam 111 and a lower margin to seam 113 respectively disposed at an upper end and a lower end to be folded inward. The upper margin to seam 111 and the lower margin to seam 113 are respectively sewed along sewing lines 111a and 113a after being folded.
The waist support body 110 is comfortable since having elasticity, and assists the waist muscles of the golfer with excellent grip performance. The waist support body 110 is designed to fit the body contours of a man or a woman, thereby firmly holding the belly fat and waist fat.
As illustrated in
The waist support body 110 is formed of a superelastic material to serve as muscles while expanding and contracting when the golfer performs take-back or address for swing as illustrated in
In this instance, the waist support body 110 has a horizontal elastic force and a vertical elastic force, which are the same or are different from each other so as to hold the belly fat and waist fat and tighten or relieve the waist while the golfer swings.
Here, a width (W) of the the waist support body 110 may be varied according to a waist size of a golfer so that the golfer may select the width of the waist support body 110 to fit the golfer's body size.
As illustrated in
As illustrated in
The rear special band 120 is made of 100% polyurethane and has greater elasticity than that of the waist support body 110. As a result, the rear special band is relatively less stretched than the waist support body 110 during swing.
The thickness of fabric of the rear special band 120 is preferably equal to that of the waist support body 110 or less than 1.5 times that of the waist support body 110. In addition, since being made with fabric which is relatively thick, the rear special band 120 increases stability by getting in close contact with the golfer's back during swing.
Accordingly, the rear special band 120 serves to reduce dispersion of the center of the body by minimizing movement of the back muscles. If the movement of the body center is reduced, generality in swing and strong impact can be induced.
The silicone support shafts 130 are perpendicularly coupled to the outer area which does not touch the skin of the golfer in boundary areas of both sides where the waist support body 110 and the rear special band 120 are combined with each other to limit the movement of the rear special band 120.
As illustrated in
In a preferred embodiment, the silicon support shafts 130 have a thickness of 0.8 mm and a width of 8 mm so as to be thin enough for the golfer not to feel irritation and to get in close contact with the back of the golfer during movement.
Especially, when the back muscles move from top to bottom while the golfer swings, the silicon support shafts 130 support the back muscles, thereby helping to improve the driving distance.
On the other hand, in a case in which the silicon support shafts 130 have a thickness ranging from 0.7 mm to 0.9 mm and a width ranging from 7 mm to 12 mm, the effect of improving the driving distance without causing discomfort was obtained.
The golfer wears the waist support band 100 on the waist and the abdomen while elastically expanding the waist support band 100 after inserting the legs and feet into the waist support band 100 and lifting the waist support band 100 up to the waist. As illustrated in
When the golfer wears the waist support band 100, the golfer's body may look slim since the waist support band 100 presses the waist fat and the belly fat by the elastic force thereof.
When the golfer who is wearing the waist support band 100 moves the waist and the arms to take from the address to take-back to top-swing for performing a swing motion, as illustrated in
When the waist support body 110 is expanded in the movement direction of the waist and the arm muscles, it elastically maintains the expanded state that the waist support body 100 is expanded more than the initial state.
In the above state, as illustrated in
In addition, as illustrated in
Moreover, the waist support band according to the present invention stably supports the central axis when the golfer performs twisting from take-back and address, thereby transmitting stronger power to a golf ball at the time of impact.
In order to verify the wearing effects of the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention, a driver swing test was performed with golfers who have experiences of six months or more, and in this instance, the golfers put into two groups: one group in which golfers do not wear the waist support band; and the other group in which golfers wear the waist support band.
The test was made for 30 subjects, and physical characteristics of the subjects are indicated in the following table 1.
In order to measure driving distances according to whether the subjects wear the auxiliary wear or not, the degree of improvement of carry distance (CD), ball speed (BS), and total distance (TD) were tested. In order to measure CD, BS and TD, GDR equipment was used.
The subjects first performed swing without wearing the waist support band 100, and then, performed swing while wearing the waist support band 100.
For each test, the subjects practiced swing three times and performed swing ten times for measurement. Among the ten swing actions, only three balls entering in a target area were recognized as record, and utilized as data through an averaging process.
In order to compare differences in CD, BS and TD between the case in which the subjects do not wear the waist support band and the case in which the subjects wear the waist support band, a paired t-test was performed. In addition, an average and a standard deviation of all measurement data were calculated, data analysis was performed using a R program, and a significant level of the statistical value was set at p<0.05.
The results of general characteristics of the subjects in this test are shown in the following table 2.
The measurement results of driving distance are shown in the following table 3. CD was 192.5 m before wearing but 208.0 m after wearing so as to be increased by 15.5 m, TD was 210.2 m before wearing but 225.8 m after wearing so as to be increased by 15.6 m, and BS was 60.7 m/s before wearing but 63.3 m/s after wearing so as to be increased 2.6 m/s. That is, there is no significant difference, but all of them were increased on average.
As described above, the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention holds muscles necessary for swing when a golfer performs swing after wearing the waist support, and adds an elastic force during impact to transmit a strong force at the moment of impact.
The wearing results of the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention can be clearly confirmed through an experiment comparing a case in which a golfer wears the waist support and a case in which a golfer does not wear the waist support with each other.
Additionally, the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention includes the rear special band disposed at the back to limit excessive movement of the back muscles, thereby allowing the golfer to perform strong impact by reducing dispersion of the body center. In addition, the waist support band for a golfer according to the present invention limits excessive movement of the waist to prevent back injury.
The technical thoughts of the present invention have been described hereinafter.
It is to be appreciated that those skilled in the art can change or modify the embodiments from the above description in various ways. Although it is not clearly illustrated or described herein, it is to be appreciated that those skilled in the art can change or modify the embodiments from the above description in various ways without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention and such changes and modifications belong to the scope of the present invention. While the present invention has been described with reference to the particular illustrative embodiments, it is not to be restricted by the embodiments but only by the appended claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2023-0000095 | Jan 2023 | KR | national |
