EP0076203B1 - Dispositif d'entraînement pour joueur de tennis - Google Patents

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EP0076203B1
EP0076203B1 EP82401714A EP82401714A EP0076203B1 EP 0076203 B1 EP0076203 B1 EP 0076203B1 EP 82401714 A EP82401714 A EP 82401714A EP 82401714 A EP82401714 A EP 82401714A EP 0076203 B1 EP0076203 B1 EP 0076203B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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  • the present invention relates to a device for training a tennis player by allowing him to control the technical quality of his gestures during the execution of strokes.
  • G B-A No 396611 a movement limiting device of a different type only usable for training boxers.
  • This device comprises a belt carrying at two roughly diametrically opposite points two non-adjustable stops and intended only to prevent the user's arms from moving back beyond a certain position, on the express condition that the latter keeps the elbows pressed against the body.
  • This device not only cannot be used for training in a sport other than boxing, but also cannot even be used in the actual practice of this sport.
  • US-A No. 3231271 discloses an apparatus for teaching tennis requiring a real installation comprising two poles, on either side of the player, a support carrying imitation balls and a special racket.
  • the invention aims to provide a device for training a tennis player, adapted to provide him with immediate information on how he performs the different strokes of this sport, both while actually practicing it. ci only during training or instruction sessions.
  • Such a device allowing the player to control the technical quality of his gestures even during the execution of the strokes, is, according to the invention, characterized in that it comprises an object capable of constituting an obstacle for the racket of the player, this object being mounted on an adjustable frame rigidly fixed in the player's back by means of a harness and enabling the object to be placed in a position close to that which the racket must take at one end of its stroke during the execution of a determined move.
  • the device according to the invention therefore provides the player, with which it forms part, a reference element constituted by the aforementioned object, which allows him to realize with each stroke played whether he has correctly or not maneuvered his racket.
  • a reference element constituted by the aforementioned object, which allows him to realize with each stroke played whether he has correctly or not maneuvered his racket.
  • the latter coming to strike the obstacle, gives the player an immediate and concrete feeling which indicates to him if his gesture is correct, or too high, too low, too short, too wide, if it is accomplished too early or too late. -to the ball to return, without the slightest doubt can remain in his mind.
  • it can even provide information on the angle of inclination of the racket plane.
  • the player is thus physically aware of his exact gestures at the very moment when he performs them, which is much more profitable for him than the late observation of his image recorded with a video recorder.
  • the device according to the invention is simple and inexpensive. It is light and its presence does not hinder the player, who retains all his freedom of play. Normally used on a tennis court, it can also be at home to work the execution of such or such movement and acquire by l '' training an almost automatic ability to execute different tennis strokes (shadow-tennis).
  • the position of the obstacle object can be adjusted in order to control the position either of preparation or of finishing shots. It can be placed both on the right and on the left of the player, depending on the genre of moves to be studied. Its position can be changed gradually to gradually correct a player's faults on a particular move.
  • the frame thereof comprises a telescopic rod bent in the region of its ends and orientable around its end of attachment to the dorsal region of a worn harness by the player, while at the other end is fixed the aforementioned object.
  • this harness is simply constituted by a wide abdominal belt, which forms a stable support for said telescopic rod without creating any obstacle to the movements of the player.
  • Said telescopic rod preferably attached to the harness by means of a lockable ball joint, is advantageously formed of two rectilinear segments which can slide and rotate one inside the other and be mutually locked in the chosen position.
  • the length of the rod and the orientation of the obstacle object fixed at its end can thus be easily adjusted.
  • the latter preferably has a flexible structure. It can, on the other hand, be designed either to constitute an obstacle which cannot be crossed by the racket, or to constitute an obstacle which can be crossed by the racket, then giving the player an indication relating to the position of his racket , but without preventing it from continuing its movement backwards.
  • the object can be a simple block of elastic material, for example in the form of a rectangular panel or ball, firmly fixed on its supporting frame.
  • it can be produced in the form of a flexible stick arranged in a substantially vertical plane and preferably directed downwards.
  • a device according to the invention can be double and include a second frame carrying a second object with an adjustable position independently of that of the first object, these complementary elements being formed and arranged in the manner previously described. The player then simultaneously has two obstacle objects which allow him to study the execution of two kinds of moves in the same exercise phase.
  • the device given as an example essentially comprises a support constituted by a wide abdominal belt 1 and a rigid telescopic rod 2, orientable practically in all directions thanks to a ball joint 3 which connects one end thereof to the center of the back part 1 of the belt 1, while its other end carries an object 9 of flexible material, capable of obstructing the tennis racket of a player equipped with the device.
  • the belt 1 made of leather or plastic, has lateral portions 1 b of elastic fabric and is closed by means of fittings 1 c of the Velcro type. On its dorsal part 1a, widened to constitute a stable seat surface, is fixed a base 5 supporting the ball joint 3.
  • the ball joint 3a thereof which can be blocked in any desired position by maneuvering a threaded ring 3b is integral with the end of the first tubular segment 2a of the telescopic rod 2, bent at right angles to 6 at a short distance from the ball joint 3a.
  • the second segment 2b of said rod also tubular and bent at a right angle at 7 near its end, can turn and slide in the first segment and be locked there in any desired position by means of a knurled screw 8 (an eccentric roller locking system could also be used here, which is easier to handle).
  • the aforementioned flexible material object namely a thick rectangular panel 9 of plastic foam, by means of a short connecting rod 4.
  • the object can also be ( fig. 2) a ball 9 'of flexible plastic foam, or alternatively (fig. 4) a flexible stick 9 ", preferably wrapped in a sheath of elastic foam.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 show two examples of the use of a device according to the invention that a player wears after having tightened the belt 1 around his waist, the rod 2 projecting laterally behind his back.
  • the device is set for studying punt shots; it is provided with a panel 9 arranged in a substantially frontal plane, the terminal elbow 7 of the rod 2 being oriented towards the front.
  • This panel constitutes a stop defining the correct position of the racket 11 of the player at the end of preparation, which is in principle adjusted so as not to be touched by the racket. A contact immediately warns the player that he is sending his racket 11 too far back.
  • the device provided with a flexible stick 9 ", is adjusted for the study of the forehand.
  • the stick 9" is oriented downwards substantially in a vertical plane, the elbow 7 being turned for this purpose downward .
  • the stick 9 constitutes, unlike objects 9 and 9 ', an obstacle which can be crossed by the racket 11, at the passage of which it is erased by bending, so that it can come into a more remote end position 11' , while the player was warned by momentary contact with the 9 "stick that his racket was arriving in the correct position.
  • the rod 2 of the device is, in FIGS. 3 and 4, facing the player's right. It can just as well be oriented to its left, for the study of backhands.
  • the different settings of the device can be identified by graduations or appropriate marks avoiding trial and error to find a previously developed setting.
  • the belt 1 has a width of 14 cm, increased to 23 cm in its dorsal region 1 a.
  • the main dimensions of panel 9 are 15x22 cm, the ball 9 'has a diameter of 6.5 cm and the flexible stick 9 "is approximately 40 cm long.
  • Fig. 5 illustrates an alternative embodiment. It is a double device, comprising, carried by a common base 5 fixed on the belt 1, two similar rods 2, telescopic and orientable, adjustable independently of one another.
  • Each rod 2 is, as in the simple device previously described, on the one hand extendable and retractable according to the double arrow 13, and on the other hand orientable in any direction along the double arrow 14 as well as towards the front or towards the rear thanks to a respective ball joint 3, each obstacle 9 being itself orientable in its plane along the double arrow 10.
  • the player thus has two obstacles 9 located for example one to his right, the other to his left, identical or different, which allow him to control his forehand as well as his backhand.

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