SWING TRAINING AID
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1. A swing training aid assembly comprising:
- a ball bat having a grip at one end and a hitting zone at the opposite end; and
a gyroscope mounted in the bat adjacent the hitting zone.
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Abstract
A gyroscope assembly is mounted within a sports instrument swing aid. A motor is connected to a rotor within the gyroscope assembly. A power source drives the motor to rotate the rotor. During a forward swing of the swing aid, an angular momentum of the rapidly spinning rotor tends to maintain the swing aid parallel to a plane of the swing. A reaction torque from the gyroscope assembly may be sensed by a player if a player'"'"'s wrists are rotated in a release, and may also be sensed if a parallel relationship of the swing aid to a plane of the swing is not maintained. The swing aid may be in the form of a bat or racket.
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18 Claims
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1. A swing training aid assembly comprising:
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a ball bat having a grip at one end and a hitting zone at the opposite end; and a gyroscope mounted in the bat adjacent the hitting zone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A swing training aid assembly comprising:
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a racket having a grip at one end and a hitting zone at the opposite end; and a gyroscope mounted in the racket adjacent the hitting zone. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of training a person for optimum swing of a sport instrument for hitting a moving ball, comprising:
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activating a gyroscope mounted in a hitting zone of the instrument; swinging the instrument in a substantially horizontal plane; releasing the swinger'"'"'s wrist or wrists so as to generate a reaction torque by the gyroscope; and sensing the time of the reaction torque relative to hitting the ball. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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