Interchangeable sports grip

Abstract

A sports grips system features quick change capabilities for sports stick grips at point of purchase, or during usage, independent of the technique used. A sports stick grip is quickly placed and quickly removed such that a sportsman my try, demonstrate, test and select the best grip for them. The quick change of grips affords the user maximum functional capability in at point of purchase, practice or game play, coupled with the ability to replace or interchange grip systems. The system and apparatus provides numerous embodiments of grips, shafts and inserts, including the ability to tailor the gripping mechanisms to both right-handed and left-handed users. The system also provides golf clubs including interchangeable grips to be tried at time of purchase or to exchange after trying on a golf course.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of and claims the benefit of and takes priority from co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 922,633 filed on Jun. 20, 2013, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61 / 663,328 filed on Jun. 22, 2013, and claims the benefit of and takes priority from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61 / 936,579 filed on Feb. 6, 2014, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]This invention relates generally to sporting good apparatuses, more particularly to sport shafts and shaft grips with interchangeable characteristics in order to allot the user various strategic choices during purchase, testing, evaluation, practice, and game play.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]On present day sports equipment, such as tennis rackets, field hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, racket ball rackets, squash...

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Benefits of technology

[0052]It is an additional object of the instant system to introduce and review a method for providing the consumer with a point of purchase system wherein the consumer can purchase the sports equipment gripping mechanism, and particularly a golf club grip, that ca be chosen to fit the consumer's requirements via the ability to interchange/exchange numerous grip types and sizes. Thus, the consumer can get in the store and complete the purchase of the grip and club of his choice within a matter of minutes, even as few as ten minutes.

[0053]It is an object of the instant system to introduce and review techniques for the quick exchange of grips, such that a customer in a store can try different grips and determine which grip and feel is most desirable at the time and point of purchase. As the consumer will be more likely to purchase a club if the feel is better based on the

Problems solved by technology

The swinging motion generated around a person's body creates centripetal forces, which

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