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Method for teaching basketball shootingRelated Patent Categories: Games Using Tangible Projectile, Playing Field Or Court Game; Game Element Or Accessory Therefor Other Than Projector Or Projectile, Per Se, Practice Or Training Device, For Game Using Apertured Or Pocketed Goal Or Target (e.g., For Hockey, Soccer, Polo, Lacrosse, Etc.), For Game Using Elevated, Horizontally Disposed Goal Or Target (e.g., For Basketball, Etc.)Method for teaching basketball shooting description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080090681, Method for teaching basketball shooting. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/397,216, filed Apr. 4, 2006, which claims priority of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60/668,009, filed Apr. 4, 2005. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates generally to the field of basketball and more specifically to a method for teaching and practicing basketball shooting. [0003] The nexus of basketball is to get the basketball through the basketball hoop. Basketball players are divided into two competing teams and the team with the highest score, i.e. most baskets made, is the winner. Accordingly, it is desired to improve the frequency of successful shots made relative to attempts made by each shooter on a team in order to increase the overall team score and win the game. [0004] Thus, it is common to instruct shooters to improve their shots-made frequency. This is commonly accomplished by educating a player's eye and memory through multiple shooting repetitions in practice sessions, wherein a shooter positions him or herself at a given distance of interest from the hoop and practices multiple repetitions at that distance. However, such a system or method does not fully develop shooting ability at other distances or positions on the floor. Moreover, by focusing on a problem or otherwise important fixed location or distance, a low shots-made frequency may result in unproductive practice time, or even the development of bad habits that translate to lower shots-made frequencies at other locations on the basketball court. [0005] Other methods and systems may incorporate shooting aid equipment that attach to the basketball hoop, to the arm or leg of the shooter, or that must be positioned on the basketball playing surface. Such aids must be positioned anew at every practice session. Disadvantages include the requirement of additional equipment to be installed before and removed after every practice session. Typically, the equipment requires modification dependent on the user's size. [0006] Prior methods of teaching basketball shooting are also deficient in that they do not consistently position the shooter on the basketball court at specified distances relative to the hoop. The prior methods also do not use a systematic sequence of steps from one predetermined position to the next. [0007] What is needed is an improved system and method for improving basketball shooting that systematically improves shots-made frequency at specified, readily identifiable and repeatable locations on the basketball court. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0008] Methods and systems are provided for improving the frequency of successful shots made relative to attempts made. In one aspect, the shots-made frequency is increased by educating a player's eye and memory through repetitions at one or more specified close distance locations from the basketball hoop, and then building on that information by progressively increasing the distance from the hoop through sequential steps to additional sets of repetitions taken at greater distances from the hoop. One object is to provide a better basketball shooting practice method that results in improved free throw, bank shot and jump shot shooting accuracy. Another object is to provide a better basketball shooting practice method that results in a basketball shooter having much improved confidence in his shooting ability from any point on the basketball court during the game. Another object is to provide a practice apparatus that requires only a one-time installation, to provide a practice method that, once the apparatus has been installed on the playing surface, requires only a basketball player, a basketball hoop and a basketball. Yet another object is to provide a practice method that is usable by all ages. Still yet another object is to provide a better basketball shooting practice method that may be standard for all basketball players and all basketball teams. [0009] In one aspect, there is disclosed a method for improving basketball shooting success frequency comprising affixing a spaced plurality of markers to a basketball court playing surface within court boundaries, the affixed markers not interfering with use of the basketball court for basketball game play. In a practice session, a first shots-made frequency threshold is associated with a first marker. The method further comprises positioning a shooter at the first marker, the shooter making a first plurality of attempts to shoot a basketball ball into a basketball court hoop from the first marker; recording data indicative of the shooter and a first marker success frequency into a result data contained in a data record. Further, if the first marker success frequency is lower than the first marker threshold, then the practice session ending, else selecting a second marker more distant from the hoop than the first marker, associating a lower second shots-made frequency threshold with the second marker, the shooter making a second plurality of attempts from the second marker, recording data indicative of a second marker success frequency, and ending the practice session. [0010] In another aspect, the first threshold frequency is one hundred percent (100%) and the second threshold frequency is selected in response to result data. In one aspect, the plurality of spaced markers are affixed by arraying the markers spaced about one foot (1 ft.)/three-tenths meters (0.3 meters) from each other in a plurality of radial lines defined from a first center point beneath a center of the basketball hoop. The radial lines comprise a center foul line defined from the first center point and including a second point located at about the center of a basketball court foul line; a left 30.degree. angle line oriented at a 30.degree. angle left of the center foul line; a right 30.degree. angle line oriented at a 30.degree. angle right of the center foul line; a left 60.degree. angle line oriented at a 60.degree. angle left of the center foul line; a right 60.degree. angle line oriented at a 60.degree. angle right of the center foul line; a left 90.degree. angle line oriented at a 90.degree. angle left of the center foul line; and a right 90.degree. angle line oriented at a 90.degree. angle right of the center foul line. [0011] In one method, if the first marker success frequency is not lower than the first marker threshold, the practice session continues by selecting a group of primary markers of the marker plurality and associating the first marker success frequency with each of the primary group markers; iteratively selecting each of the primary group markers and positioning the shooter at each marker, the shooter making a plurality of attempts to shoot the ball into the hoop from each marker, recording data indicative of each marker's success frequency into the result data, and, if any marker success frequency is lower than the first marker threshold, ending the practice session. In one method, iteratively selecting each marker comprises selecting in a progression from a marker spaced nearer to the hoop to a marker spaced farther from the hoop. [0012] In one method, a subsequent first marker, subsequent first shots-made frequency threshold, subsequent second marker and/or a subsequent second shots-made frequency threshold is selected for a subsequent practice session in response to result data. In another method, a verification entity verifies that a first marker success frequency and/or a second marker success frequency are not lower than their respective threshold and, further, the above subsequent practice session selections are dependent upon said verifying. In one method, verifying comprises a verifying entity witnessing a shooter making a verification plurality of attempts not lower than a threshold, the total verification attempts lower than a total of the first plurality of attempts. [0013] In one method, recording the data indicative of the shooter and success frequency comprises entering data into a computer processing system, the computer processing system selecting the subsequent first marker, the subsequent first shots-made frequency threshold, the subsequent second marker or the subsequent second shots-made frequency threshold in response to the result data. In another method, affixing the markers comprises painting the markers onto a court playing surface, attaching the markers to the court playing surface with an adhesive means, and/or applying markers to the court playing surface and covering the markers and the court playing surface with a protective transparent coating. And in another method, markers are configured to become visibly apparent to a shooter only upon an activating input to said each marker, including providing the activating input to markers during a practice session and removing the activating input after the ending of a practice session. [0014] In another aspect, there is disclosed a method for teaching basketball shooting comprising the sequential steps of: positioning of the player at the first marking, attempting to shoot the basketball into the basketball hoop, recording the number of attempts that did not go through the hoop, recording the number of attempts that did go through the hoop, positioning of the player at the second marking, and repeating the sequence through the remainder of the markings. [0015] In another aspect, there is disclosed an apparatus and system for improving basketball shooting success frequency comprising a plurality of markings applied to a basketball playing surface, the plurality of markings spaced from each other in at least one radial line, the radial line defined from a first center point through a second point, the center point defined on the basketball playing surface directly beneath a center of a basketball hoop, and at least one scoring device to record at least one of missed shot attempt data and successful shot attempt data for each of the plurality of markings. [0016] In one aspect, a system includes at least one advancement rule, the advancement rule comprising a requirement that a shooter positioning at a first location on a basketball floor make a first plurality of attempts to shoot the ball into the basket at a threshold success frequency, the rule further comprising a requirement to stop shooting if the shooter fails to meet the threshold success frequency, or the shooter repositions at a second location on a basketball floor if the shooter meets the threshold success frequency. [0017] In one aspect, a means for selecting the threshold success frequency selects in response from a data input. In another aspect, the means for selecting the threshold success frequency is configured to increase an initial level threshold for the first location to a higher secondary threshold for subsequent shot attempt sets at the first location in response to a previous shot attempt set at the first location having a shots-made frequency greater than or equal to the initial level threshold. In one aspect, divergent shot-made thresholds or shot set total numbers for each of the first and second marking shot locations are provided. [0018] In one aspect, the plurality of markings are arrayed in a plurality of radial lines, each of the radial lines defined from a first center point defined on the basketball playing surface directly beneath a center of a basketball hoop. In another aspect, the plurality of radial lines comprises a center foul line; left and right 30.degree. angle lines each oriented 30.degree. from the foul line; left and right 60.degree. angle lines each oriented 60.degree. from the foul line; and left and right 90.degree. angle lines each oriented 90.degree. from the foul line. In another aspect, each of the markings is spaced from an adjacent marking in a common radial line a common spacing of about one foot/0.3 meters. [0019] In one aspect, a method for improving basketball shooting success frequency is provided comprising the steps of positioning a shooter at a first location on a basketball floor; the shooter making a first plurality of attempts to shoot the ball into the basket; determining a success frequency of the plurality of attempts; either ending the method if the success frequency is lower than a threshold, or the shooter repositioning at a second location on a basketball floor if the success frequency is not lower than the threshold; the shooter making a second plurality of attempts to shoot the ball into the basket at the second position; and determining a success frequency of the second plurality of attempts. In one aspect, the second location is farther from the basket than the first location. [0020] In another aspect, a method further comprises the steps of recording a number of attempts of the first plurality that did not go through the basket; and recording a number of attempts of the first plurality that did go through the basket. [0021] In another aspect, a method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of markings applied to a basketball playing surface, wherein the plurality of markings are arrayed in a plurality of radial lines, each of the radial lines defined from a first center point defined on the basketball playing surface directly beneath a center of a basketball hoop, wherein the first location is common with a plurality of markings first near marking and the second location is common with a plurality of markings second far marking, the second far marking located distal to the center point relative to the first near marking; and a shooter progressively making sets of shot attempts at each of a plurality of markings within a first one of the radial lines, starting with an initial marking and progressing outward from the basket to a last marking farther from the basket relative to the initial marking dependent upon meeting a shots-made frequency threshold for each of the preceding marking. 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