Ski training apparatus and method

a training apparatus and ski training technology, applied in the field of ski training apparatus and method, can solve the problems of insufficient support or encouragement of the skier's posture, various devices do not enable an experienced person to provide supportive and directive forces, apparatus and methods, for the most part, fail to eliminate or significantly reduce the potential for the novice to fall, etc., to facilitate the teaching of the novice or neophyte skier proper balance and techniqu
US20060110716A1Inactive Publication Date: 2006-05-25MICARI JOSEPH J +1
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
MICARI JOSEPH J
Publication Date
2006-05-25
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

An apparatus and method to facilitate training for skiing, skating, roller-blading and the like, where an experienced person may assist or direct a novice. The apparatus includes a stiff, curvilinear hoop or similar shape with a handle section and an adjacent padded frontal section. In one of several methods, one person is positioned within the apparatus and the apparatus is placed against that person's torso, and another person is able to grasp the apparatus and to control or lead the first person.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The invention is directed to an apparatus and method for one person to guide another in a recreational sport and more particularly to a training device and method used between an experienced skier and a novice skier in order to control the novice skier and thereby facilitate the novice skier's development of confidence, skill and self-control. BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY

[0002] Numerous devices are known to attach an experienced skier to a novice skier in training. Most notable, relative to the present invention, are those devices that are specifically designed to hold the novice skier back while allowing downhill motion to acclimate the novice or child to the sensation of solo skiing—without the inherent hazard of loosing control due to their lack of skill in using the ski edges for turning and stopping. While the current methods and devices are well suited for limiting the rate of decent, they are inadequate for sustaining or encouraging the skier's postur...

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