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A safe swinging method and device for accurate playing and training of swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, cricket, tennis, racquetball, and squash.Related Patent Categories: Games Using Tangible Projectile, Golf, Practice Swingable Implement Or Indicator Associated With Swingable ImplementA safe swinging method and device for accurate playing and training of swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, cricket, tennis, racquetball, and squash. description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060079341, A safe swinging method and device for accurate playing and training of swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, cricket, tennis, racquetball, and squash.. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] This invention relates to a method and device for playing and practicing swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey and cricket etc. without the player holding the club, hockey stick or bat etc. with his or her two hands, where the player's hands are rotating around rotating points and/or rotating devices which will enabling the player to swing into or parallel to the optimal swinging plane in a natural pendulum manner. [0002] This invention also relates to a method and device for playing and practicing swinging sports such as tennis, racquetball, and squash etc. that will enable the player to swing the racket using his or her two hands. Where the player's hands are rotating around rotating points and/or rotating devices that will enable the player to swing into or parallel to the optimal swinging plane in a natural pendulum manner. TABLE-US-00001 United States Patent Application 20040214652 Oct. 28, 2004 Robbins, John References Cited [Referenced By] U.S. Patent Documents 5669823 September, 1997 McCready. 5551696 September, 1996 Izett et al. 5558586 September, 1996 Izett et al. 473/251. 5474300 December, 1995 Scalise et al. 473/201. 5401022 March, 1995 McCready. 5388834 February, 1995 Dawson 5308073 May, 1994 McKoon et al. 5209475 May, 1993 Loman 5154416 October, 1992 Smull 5125657 June, 1992 Beil 5106095 April, 1992 Pitkethly 5088738 February, 1992 Mundt et al. 5060942 October, 1991 Dalbo 5037103 August, 1991 Williams et al 4911725 March, 1990 Duvieilh 623/65. 4878673 November, 1989 Pollard 5830081 Nov., 3, 1998 Kitahara 4819944 April, 1989 Doane 4754978 July, 1988 Dworacek 4661113 April, 1987 Adkins 623/65 4491323 January, 1985 Kozub 4445686 May, 1984 Daugherty 4357717 November, 1982 Puhl. 4209169 June, 1980 Roberts 4150821 April, 1979 Racz. 4030732 June, 1977 Vincent 3937465 February, 1976 Roland. 3963244 June, 1976 Mierzejewski 3858881 January, 1975 Hurwitz 3814419 June, 1974 Bjorklund 3466046 September, 1969 McTeigue 3462155 August, 1969 Pelz 473/238 3376038 April, 1968 Henry 3529826 August, 1967 Hulyk. 3245686 April, 1966 Hartmeister 3170690 February, 1965 Goranson et al. 2938728 May, 1960 Green 2873970 February, 1959 Murphey, Jr. 2962288 October, 1957 Edwin F. Lowden 2801106 July, 1957 Koehler 2325525 July, 1943 Luckenbill 2321773 June, 1943 Ruemelin 2204974 Jun., 18.sup.th, 1940 Robert Strasser 2132219 October, 1938 Pirie 2204974 September, 1938 Strasser. 2092839 September, 1937 Gouverneur 2005915 June, 1935 Grelle 1919221 July, 1933 Janes. 1684192 September, 1928 Nemeth 792631 June, 1905 Taylor 473/251 760161 May, 1904 Smith Foreign Patent Documents [Referenced By] WO03066172 2003-08-14 LEE SEI-YOUNG (KR WO 02/09821 February, 2002 Allen 205442 October, 1923 GB 273/75. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Although the swinging action in the swinging sports looks simple, it actually requires many necessary standard swing postures to perform a perfect and accurate swing action. There are many important aspects required to produce a perfect swing action according to experts in the art. First, extreme care should be taken to provide for a proper grip. Second, the posture should be maintained level throughout the swing with the knees sometimes bent. Third, the backswing should be perfect, for example: if a baseball player over-backswings the bat, he or she will not see the ball coming to him or her, If a golf player does the same thing, his or her head will turn and cannot see the ball any more, and how could a player hit a ball that he or she can not see. Fourth, the downswing should be powerful and accurate using the two hands because hitting the ball or hockey puck with one hand is not strong enough. Fifth, the ball or puck impact should be on the right place, so that the ball or puck will be at the center of the face of the club, hockey stick or bat etc., while said club, hockey stick or bat etc. is exactly perpendicular to the optimal swinging plane. Sixth, the follow-through should be all the way and in the direction of the intended destination of the ball or puck. Seventh, the player must stop his or her swing at the right time and not over swing the club, hockey stick or bat etc. otherwise the player will injure himself. [0004] Perhaps the most important aspect required to perform an accurate swing action in swinging sports is for the player to swing and hit the ball, or puck in the optimal swinging plane. For example, the optimal swinging plane for a swinging sport such as golf, baseball and cricket etc. is constructed by the connection of three points between the left and right shoulders of the player and the point of his or her two hands holding the club, hockey stick or bat etc. If the player can swing the club, hockey stick or bat etc. to enable the club, hockey stick or bat etc. head to travel along the same optimal swinging plane each time, the player's swing action will be very accurate and perfect which will enable the player to hit the ball to travel exactly towards the target. On the other hand, if the player fails to hit the ball in the optimal swinging plane, the ball will be hit to travel into an unexpected destination. If the player's two hands are straight and fully extended it will help keep the optimal swinging plane intact, however, most of players, especially in baseball and cricket bend their arms at the elbows. This happens because they put the bat behind their head to start swinging which make it impossible to keep an optimal swinging plane intact. The dilemma is that all the players, professionals and amateurs alike, of swinging sports such as golf, baseball and cricket etc. cannot keep the optimal swinging plane intact during their swing. This happens because when the player starts moving the club, hockey stick or bat etc. over his or her head the left hand of the right handed player for example will prevent the player's two hands from being straight, and force the left and right hand to bend over the head. This will force all the players without exception to move the head of the club, hockey stick or bat etc. in a radical, spiral, uncontrollable and shaking motion away from the optimal swinging plane. When the player is going for his or her downswing and their arm becomes extended (straight) they will try very hard to go back to the optimal swinging plane, sadly most of them fail to do so resulting of hitting the ball astray. [0005] The player of a swinging sport may injure himself if he or she did not pay attention and stay alert at all times and be careful with his or her swing. For Example, one day my friend told me while we were practicing golf in a driving range, to watch out and not to hit the ground or the ball at the wrong place or I will injure myself. I did not pay attention and I hit the ball at the far edge of the golf club face and suddenly the club was violently twisted in my hands and many ligament of my right wrist was torn. It took me over four months to heal from this injury. Thank God this happened to me, because it inspired me to invent this invention. Many golf, baseball and cricket players go home with a sore wrist or twisted leg after playing or practicing. It ranges from minor to severe injuries such as twisted arms, legs and backs, etc. Studies in the United States show that between 40 and 50 percent of all golfers, professionals and amateurs alike, suffer from back problems. Back injury is the most common golf injury, caused mostly due to over-swinging. Said injuries force many players to stop playing the sport and tell other people not to play it. This will result into a bad name and ruin the reputation of the sport. According to statistics, one unsatisfied person is equal to 50 satisfied ones, because the unsatisfied person will go around spreading the bad gospel to 50 other people. [0006] Swinging sports are very old sports. Thousands of devices were created to improve the games, however, the players of such sports still insist on holding the club, hockey stick or bat etc. with his or her two hands, where the two hands are close to each other. I think this bad habit did not change after all these years because the player of said sports needed to hit the ball with his or her two hands so that he or she can hit it strong enough to play the game. Hitting the ball with one hand cannot produce the desired force needed to play the game. On the other hand, holding said club, hockey stick or bat etc. with the two hands and near each other does not only make the game difficult and impossible to play as mentioned above, but also makes said club, hockey stick or bat etc. sway and swing in uncontrolled radical directions and almost never in the optimal swinging plane. No matter how many hours a player will train for the swinging games he or she may never achieve any progress at all. As a matter of fact, some players keep practicing the swinging sport in an incorrect way, such that their body becomes used to it, resulting in injury. Such hopeless effort forced many players to abandoned the sport and tell other people to forget about it and not to even try to play it. This drives many people away from such sports. [0007] Chipping the ball in golf is very difficult. Chipping refers to hitting the ball with a club that has a tilted head to hit the underneath the ball to make it travel high in the air. First the player has to choose the correct club number with the correct tilted angle for the distance, second, the player must put the ball in the middle distance between his or her legs because he or she is holding the club with his or her two hands and the only chance that he or she may hit the ball in the optimal swinging plane is to put the said ball in the middle distance between his legs. Third, the player will go for his upper swing, which will throw him or her away from the optimal swinging plane as we described above. Fourth, the player will go for his or her downswing and make sure that he or she will chip the ball at the right spot under the ball to make it go up into the air to the correct height and the correct distance. The chance of chipping the ball correctly in golf is very small and almost impossible to do, no matter how much the player will practice his or her chipping he or she will chip the ball in a different way and at a different spot for the same distance and never get it correctly. The player needs a better method to chip the ball. [0008] Putting in golf is also very difficult for all players because it is very hard for the player to swing the putter in the exact direction he wanted. First the player may stand behind the ball and line it up and then he may kneel down and use his putter to line up the direction for the second time. Then he stands and swings the putter to practice away from the ball and parallel to the ball. Then he takes one step ahead, makes sure that the ball in the middle distance between his legs and puts the face of the putter very near to the ball and one final time he swings his head to make sure that it will go straight to the hall and hit the ball. In most cases the ball will go astray. The golf player needs an accurate and reliable way to test swinging the putter in the direction of the hall several times before finally hitting the ball. [0009] Swinging sport such as golf require a golf club set which is heavy to carry and expensive to buy. The player needs to use fewer clubs to play the game and make it affordable to buy and play the game. [0010] Swinging sports such as golf having hard time attracting young kids to join them. You will find most of the players are adults and big portions of them are seniors. The reasons are very clear. The younger people are not interested. We need to make the game more interesting and exciting for the young people to make them play the sport. [0011] Also in swinging sports such as tennis, racquetball, and squash etc. the player uses only one hand to hit the ball while the other hand is doing nothing during the game. However, hitting the ball with one hand is not strong enough. When the ball is coming to the left side of the right handed player of tennis for example, sometimes the player suddenly holds the racket with his or her two hands and hits the ball resulting in hitting the ball much stronger. However, with all the problem of holding the racket with the two hands near each other mentioned above, the ball probably will go astray. Holding the racket with two hands is very much needed especial in hitting the surf in tennis to hit the ball stronger and make it travel faster, providing that we can find a solution to the obstacles mentioned above. OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0012] It is difficult for the average player of swinging sports to play, practice and make a perfect swing, Therefore, it is a general object of the invention to provide a new method and device to enable the player to play, practice and swing in a reliable, consistent, controlled, accurate and safe manner. [0013] There are a host of prior swinging devices designed to assist a player of swinging sport in performing with a consistent and better swing. Many of such devices are impractical and do not solve the above swinging problems. Moreover, some of them do not provide a natural pendulum swing that goes in harmony with the player's natural body motion. In fact some of them even restrict the player's body from natural movements. Therefore, it is the object of the invention to provide a method and device with a construction to be swung in a natural pendulum manner which will enable safe and improved swing in the optimal swinging plane or parallel to the optimal swinging plane that will result in a reliable, consistent, controlled, better, accurate and precise hitting while protecting the players from injury, improve the score and make the games more exciting and safe to play. [0014] Most of the prior art devices are only for practicing the swing of the swinging games. Therefore, it is another object of the method and device of the invention not only to provide a training-swinging device, but also to provide a new method and device to play the games with that will increase the score and make the games more exciting and safe to play. [0015] The prior art of playing swinging sports often injured the player as described above. Therefore, one of the most important objects of the method and device of the invention is to protect the player from any injury resulting from practicing and playing the swinging games, especially if it is a child learning to play the games. [0016] The prior art does not allow the player to swing in optimal swinging plane as describe above. Therefore, another important object of the method and device of the invention is to provide the player with a method and device to swing in a natural pendulum-like way into or parallel to the optimal swinging plane. This will result not only in making it easy for the players to perform an accurate swing in the optimal swinging plane, but also it will increase the score, and make the games more exciting. This will result in making such swinging games more popular. [0017] The prior art made it impossible for the player to maintain a good body posture during and after the swing, therefore, another object of the method and device of the invention is to enable the player to easily stand straight and maintain a good body posture throughout the swing without bending his or her knees. This will also result in improved swinging. [0018] The prior backswing of swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, and cricket etc. sometimes forced the player to over swing his or her backswing, which results in not seeing the ball or hockey puck as, mentioned above. Therefore, another object of the method and device of the invention is to stop such over swinging and keep the ball or hockey buck in the sight of the player at all times so that he or she can hit the ball or hockey buck and never miss it. [0019] The prior downswing of swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, and cricket etc. is powerful because the player is using his or her two hands to hit the ball or hockey buck, however it is not accurate because the player holds said club, hockey stick or bat etc. with his or her two hands close to each other as described above. Therefore, another object of the method and device of the invention is to make the player use his two hands to hit the ball or hockey buck stronger and accurately while solving the problem of the prior art. [0020] The prior art of swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, and cricket etc. made it impossible to hit the ball or hockey buck in the right place so that the ball or hockey buck will be at the center of the face of the club, hockey stick or bat etc., while said face of the club, hockey stick or bat etc. is exactly perpendicular to the optimal swinging plane. Therefore, another object of the method and device of the invention is to easily line up the face of the club, hockey stick or bat etc. to hit the ball or hockey buck at the center of the said club, hockey stick or bat etc. while the said face of the club, hockey stick or bat etc. is perfectly perpendicular to the optimal swinging plane, which will result in hitting the ball or hockey buck exactly in the right place and solve the problem of the prior art. [0021] In the prior art of swinging sports such as golf, baseball, hockey, and cricket etc. the follow-through swing is hard to do in the optimal swinging plane because the player's two hands bend as he or she goes for the follow-through swing which will result in making the face of the club, hockey stick or bat etc. move in radical directions making the ball or hockey buck go astray. 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