Athletic reflex machine
First Claim
1. A system for athletic practice to sharpen the skills of a user in avoiding and parrying blows as in Karate and the like, comprising:
- means for lashing out at the user with a succession of blows from a plurality of levels and directions, means for programming said lashing out, including a plurality of valving means, the means for lashing out including a plurality of strikers, means for connecting each of said strikers for response to a respective valving means, each of said strikers including a bellows inflatable through a respective said valving means and a respective said means for connecting.
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Abstract
Martial-arts practice apparatus includes an upright panel with a plurality of pneumatically actuable strikers valve-controlled to lash-out toward the user and retract in simulation of weaponless combat; sequence of actuation of the strikers is determinable by a motor driven lobe-roll with adjustable lobes or cams for actuating the striker-control valves, or without this provision, manually by depression of valve actuators in any sequence desired, permitting a colleague of the user to engage in a contest with the user through selective actuation of the strikers; two or more strikers can be actuated to lash out simultaneously.
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1. A system for athletic practice to sharpen the skills of a user in avoiding and parrying blows as in Karate and the like, comprising:
- means for lashing out at the user with a succession of blows from a plurality of levels and directions, means for programming said lashing out, including a plurality of valving means, the means for lashing out including a plurality of strikers, means for connecting each of said strikers for response to a respective valving means, each of said strikers including a bellows inflatable through a respective said valving means and a respective said means for connecting.
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