Sporting game of Sokker Golph™

• US 8,002,652 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2008
• Issued: 08/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jacob Y. Wong
• Original Assignee: Jacob Y. Wong
• Inventors: Wong, Jacob Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong; Steven
• Application Number:
  US12/291,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20090170639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 473/594, 473/570, 473/571, 473/595, 473/409, 434/251
• US Class Current: 473/594
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/32 Golf
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/0025 Football American football A63B2243/007
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/04 with an eccentric centre of gravity; with mechanism for changing the centre of gravity solid balls A63B37/10
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/002 Games using balls, not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A sporting game in which a game ball that behaves differently from a conventional soccer ball is kicked from a starting point toward an end point for the purpose of getting the game ball in the end point in as few as strikes as possible and, if this is not accomplished in one kick, then the game ball is kicked one or more additional times until it is in the end point. However, unlike the direction of travel for a conventional ball, the game ball'"'"'s direction of travel is to the right when a counterclockwise spin is applied at a point of contact with the player'"'"'s foot, to the left when a clockwise spin is applied at the point of contact, and straight when a top spin is applied at the point of contact.

Claims

1. A method of playing a game with a game ball, comprising the step of:

causing the game ball to exhibit a skokker direction of travel by applying a spin to the game ball at a point of contact;

wherein the skokker direction of travel will be to the right when a counterclockwise spin is applied to the skokker game ball at the point of contact, to the left when a clockwise spin is applied to the skokker game ball at the point of contact, and straight when a top spin is applied to the skokker game ball at the point of contact;

and wherein the game ball is comprised of a liquid movable within an interior spherical chamber that is held within an inner cavity of an outer ball shell such that said spherical chamber is maintained substantially in the center of the game ball during motion of the game ball and said motion is primarily determined by movement of the liquid within the interior spherical chamber such that the game ball can exhibit the skokker direction of travel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the spin is applied to the ball at the point of contact by a players foot.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the spin is applied to the ball at the point of contact by a player'"'"'s hand.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the spin is applied to the ball at the point of contact by an inanimate object.