METHODS FOR IMPROVING ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE

• US 20140141908A1
• Filed: 09/04/2013
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Full Flight Technology, Llc
• Original Assignee: Full Flight Technology, Llc
• Inventors: Donahoe, Robert V.
• Granted Patent: US 9,239,215 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/570
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 47/008 Devices for measuring or verifying ball characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/00 Training appliances or apparatus for special sports training of parachutists B64D23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3658 Means associated with the ball for indicating or measuring, e.g. speed, direction
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 5/14 Details of bows; Accessories for arc shooting sighting devices for bows F41G1/467
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 12/385 Arrow or dart carrying a radio transmitter for signalling
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/04 Archery arrows F42B6/08, F41B5/06, F42B12/362 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/06 Tail ends, e.g. nocks, fletching
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 6/08 Arrow heads; Harpoon heads

Abstract

A method is provided for improving athletic performance in a sport in which participants employ a projectile during competition. The method includes training for the sport with a sensing system included in the projectile, where flight characteristics of the projectile remain substantially unchanged with the sensing system included in the projectile relative to the flight characteristics of the projectile as used in competition without the sensing system. The method also includes evaluating at least one flight characteristic measured by the sensing system when the projectile is employed with the sensing system, and if the act of evaluating finds that adjusting at least one physical characteristic of the projectile may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance, changing the at least one physical characteristic.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method of improving athletic performance in a sport in which participants employ a projectile during competition, the method comprising:

training for the sport with a sensing system included in the projectile, wherein flight characteristics of the projectile remain substantially unchanged with the sensing system included in the projectile relative to the flight characteristics of the projectile as used in competition without the sensing system;

evaluating at least one flight characteristic measured by the sensing system when the projectile is employed with the sensing system; and

if the act of evaluating finds that adjusting at least one physical characteristic of the projectile may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance, changing the at least one physical characteristic.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising evaluating the at least one flight characteristic for at least one subsequent use of the projectile in the training.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising, if the act of evaluating the flight characteristic for the at least one subsequent use finds that adjusting the at least one physical characteristic of the projectile further may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance, changing the at least one physical characteristic.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the at least one physical characteristic includes a plurality of physical characteristics, and wherein the method further comprises determining whether the act of evaluating finds that adjusting the plurality of physical characteristics of the projectile may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein in the plurality of physical characteristics are selected from a group consisting of a weight of the projectile, an aerodynamic profile of the projectile and a stiffness of the projectile.

26. The method of claim 21, further comprising employing in the competition the projectile used in the act of training.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the competition includes a plurality of additional participants, and wherein the method further comprises having each of the additional participants employ the same general type but a different projectile than the projectile employed by the participant.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the at least one physical characteristic includes a plurality of physical characteristics, and wherein the method further comprises determining whether the act of evaluating finds that adjusting the plurality of physical characteristics of the projectile employed by the participant may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein in the plurality of physical characteristics are selected from a group consisting of a weight of the projectile, an aerodynamic profile of the projectile and a stiffness of the projectile employed by the participant.

30. A method of improving athletic performance in a sport in which participants propel an object airborne during competition, the method comprising:

training for the sport with a sensing system included in the object, wherein flight characteristics of the object remain substantially unchanged with the sensing system included in the object relative to the flight characteristics of the object as used in competition without the sensing system;

evaluating at least one flight characteristic measured by the sensing system when the object is employed with the sensing system; and

if the act of evaluating finds that adjusting at least one physical characteristic of the object may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance, changing the at least one physical characteristic.

31. The method of claim 30, further comprising evaluating the at least one flight characteristic for at least one subsequent use of the object in the training.

32. The method of claim 31, further comprising, if the act of evaluating the flight characteristic for the at least one subsequent use finds that adjusting the at least one physical characteristic of the object further may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance, changing the at least one physical characteristic.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the at least one physical characteristic includes a plurality of physical characteristics, and wherein the method further comprises determining whether the act of evaluating finds that adjusting the plurality of physical characteristics of the object may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein in the plurality of physical characteristics are selected from a group consisting of a weight of the object, an aerodynamic profile of the object and a stiffness of the object.

35. The method of claim 30, further comprising employing in the competition the object used in the act of training.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein the competition includes a plurality of additional participants, and wherein the method further comprises having each of the additional participants employ the same general type but a different object than the object employed by the participant.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein the at least one physical characteristic includes a plurality of physical characteristics, and wherein the method further comprises determining whether the act of evaluating finds that adjusting the plurality of physical characteristics of the object employed by the participant may assist in improving the participant'"'"'s performance.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein in the plurality of physical characteristics are selected from a group consisting of a weight of the projectile, an aerodynamic profile of the projectile and a stiffness of the projectile employed by the participant.