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Globall sports systems/globall tennis 2.o

Globall sports systems/globall tennis 2.o description/claims

This invention relates generally to the coaching or development of athletes in a given sport or athletic activity, in general, and the game of tennis, in particular, using a computer based and driven Learning-Teaching Platform which contains a separate 1) Skill Development Component and a separate 2) Evaluative and Recordation and Data Reporting Component which function SYNERGISTICALLY together to expeditiously enhance athletic attainment and performance in a manner which is neither speculative or subjective, but rather is both objective and quantifiable. Over the course of history, from the time of Mesopotamia, Sumeria and the other earliest civilizations, through the times of the Greeks and the Romans, and to this current twenty-first century time frame, the training of athletes has been and continues to be an ongoing endeavor in nearly every society. Throughout this recorded history of mankind, such training has displayed various degrees of efficiency, comprehensiveness and systematization. This invention aspires to take the training of athletes to heretofore unexperienced levels of efficiency, comprehensiveness, systematization and quantitative objectivity.

The present invention is a highly systematic, methodological process that is the product of over 35 years of sport scientific research and development. It was initially conceived and employed within the context of the sport of tennis. The goal of this invention is to provide a more effective mechanism for teaching athletes in any given sport, as well as the game of tennis, by training them in a much more efficient, systematic and comprehensive manner. In so doing, it relies on computerization in order to provide this heightened degree of precision, efficiency, time conservation as well as objectivity in terms of quantifiable performance and skill development related data. Said data is generated and periodically reported—on a semi annual basis—to those trained by this invention. Over the course of the first 10 years that (SP-B) “Standard Package B” when training tennis players in the Two-Handed “style” of tennis when even (1) Two-Handed P5 “shot” (definition: P5 refers to an “underspin” shot played on the non-dominant backhand side of the body) is utilized, thus by default enabling the use of (SP-A) “Standard Package A” for training tennis players in the Two-Handed “style” of tennis by the users of this invention, and also a disablement of (TSP-B) “T-Standard Package B” in the Totally Two-Handed “style” of tennis when even either (1) One-Handed P4 shot (definition: P4 refers to an “underspin” shot played on the dominant forehand side of the body) is utilized, or (1) One-Handed P5 shot (definition: P5 refers to an “underspin” shot on the non-dominant backhand side of the body) is utilized, thus by default enabling the use of (TSP-A) “T-Standard Package A” for training players in the Totally Two-Handed “style” of tennis by the users of this invention. this invention was utilized, research within a controlled experimental setting determined that it produced roughly 5 times as many champions (tournament winners) and 3 times as much income revenue in the tennis coaching business for the systematic coach using it as compared to those asystematic coaches not using this invention. It also resulted in a student retention rate that was 3 times greater than that of the asystematic coaches not using this invention. It is asserted and maintained herein that said asystematic coaches are “winging it” and thereby develop athletes in a given sport or athletic endeavor, or in one of the (3) “styles” of the sport of tennis (see item #1 below) in particular who are less capable in terms of quantified, objective performance metrics at any given point in time of their training and development. It is asserted that the present invention produces “better players at a faster rate” in a given sport or athletic endeavor, or in one of the (3) “styles” of play in the sport of tennis (see item #1 below) in particular. And therein lies the superiority and advantage of this present invention.

It is widely observed and understood that within the world in which we live, in the twenty-first century, that computerization has been and will continue to be employed in nearly every industry in order for those involved in those industries to be able to work more precisely, effectively and profitably in terms of gross and net revenues generated. It is believed by the inventor of this invention that the field of the coaching and training of athletes should also benefit from this technology. Heretofore, however, computerization has not been widely utilized in sports training methodologies. The prior art includes (2) patent pending tennis teaching systems. These are U.S. Pat. App. No. 20060172270 of Brown, and U.S. Pat. App. No. 20040038761 also of Brown. However, they differ significantly from the present invention in (2) principle ways: 1) neither is computer driven and based and therefore does not benefit from the aforementioned advantages of computerization and 2) each of the above describes a (5) step method of teaching a tennis stroke using what is termed the “EASI system,” which is contrasted to the conventional model for teaching which is termed the “MTR method” which stands for a model based on a) Metaphor, b) Template and c) Rule. The present computer based sports training methodological process is an example of a conventional “MTR” teaching/learning paradigm which the aforementioned No. 20060172270 and aforementioned No. 20040038761 are not by disclosure of their inventor. There is also differences in the present computer based sports training methodological process insofar as No. 20060172270 and No. 20040038761 do not include the following major elements or components which comprise the present invention:

1) a complete enumeration of all the separate and discrete biomechanical movement sequence entities in a given sport, or a complete enumeration of all the separate and discrete biomechanical movement sequence entities in the (3) distinct “styles” of play in the game of tennis, in particular. The (3) “styles” of play are the One-Handed “style” of play in which all shots are hit one-handed on both the dominant side and the non-dominant side of the body, the Two-Handed “style” of play in which all shots on the dominant side of the body are hit one-handed and all shots on the non-dominant side of the body—the backhand side—are hit two-handed, and the Totally Two-Handed “style” of play in which all shots on either the dominant side of the body, or the non-dominant side of the body are played two-handed.

2) a complete listing of all of the separate and distinct (EBP) “Essential Biomechanical Parameters” for all the separate and discrete biomechanical movement sequence entities in a given sport or athletic endeavor or within the game of tennis, and within one of the (3) “styles” of play in the game of tennis, in particular.

3) a complete listing of the of the separate and distinct (EUP) “Essential Utilization Parameters” for all the separate and discrete biomechanical movement sequence entities in a given sport or athletic endeavor or within the game of tennis, or within one of the (3) “styles” of play in the game of tennis, in particular.

4) “streaming” full sequence video as well as “still frame” video of all of the separate (EBP's) mentioned in item 2) above for a given sport or athletic endeavor or within the game of tennis, or within one of the (3) “styles” of play in the game of tennis, in particular.

5) “streaming” full sequence video of all of the separate (EUP's) mentioned in item 3) above for a given sport or athletic endeavor, within the game of tennis, or within one of the (3) “styles” of play in the game of tennis, in particular.

6) a training/drilling regimen to orchestrate the acquisition of the (EBPs) and (EUP's) for all of the separate and discrete biomechanical movement sequence entities in a given sport or athletic activity, or within the game of tennis, or within one of the (3) “styles” of play in the game of tennis, in particular.

7) an “MTR” (Metaphor, Template, Rule) sport scientific training methodology comprised of the following (3) key components a) (OS) Optimal Sequencing b) A Three Mode Methodological Paradigm and c) the Method of Progressive Pacing and Distancing (PP&D).

8) a separate and distinct Evaluative, Recordation and Data Reporting component (as opposed to a separate Skill Development component as described in items 1-7 above) intended to provide those trained by this invention with quantified, objectively derived data regarding and reporting progress in a given sport or athletic endeavor, or within the game of tennis, or within one of the (3) “styles” of play in the game of tennis, in particular, on a semi-annual basis. 1. a separate and distinct Evaluative, Recordation and Data Reporting component (as opposed to a separate Skill Development component as described in items 1-7 above) intended to provide those employing this invention in order to train participants in a given sport or athletic endeavor, or within the game of tennis, or within one of the (3) “styles” in the game of tennis, in particular, with quantified, objectively derived data regarding and reporting said trainers progress and expertise in employing said invention by allowing a comparison between said trainers performance to that of preestablished “expert norms” generated by an experienced, expert trainer while using said invention to train participants in a given sport or athletic endeavor, or within the game of tennis, or within one of the (3) “styles” of play within the game of tennis, in particular.

This invention is a computer based and driven “Learning-Teaching Platform” whose object is to ameliorate the coaching profession by providing it with a more comprehensive, systematic, and efficient vehicle that will produce athletes who perform at the highest possible level and attain more in their sport or given athletic activity, including the game of tennis, in less time than those trained non-comprehensively, and asystematically, such that said enhanced performance can be both generated and measured by this invention, yielding results which are therefore not merely speculative and subjective, but rather are both objective and quantifiable. These results of performance generated by this invention are presented and delivered electronically to those being trained by this invention on a semi-annual basis for a period of up to 48 months, or 4 years.

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