Golf Wrist Trainer With Hand Stop for Backswing Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golfers often break their hands or wrists during the backswing, disrupting the entire golf swing and resulting in poor quality shots due to improper hand positioning.
Innovation Solution
A wrist-attached device with a rigid hand stop and optional triangular wedge member to maintain proper hand position and prevent excessive wrist flexion, enhancing swing symmetry and consistency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the golfer's hand is allowed to move freely during the backswing, then the golfer can achieve natural hand positioning, but the hand may break or wrist may injure due to excessive bending
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a training device as an intermediary between the golfer's hand and the natural swinging motion. The device includes a wrist portion that attaches to the golfer's wrist and a hand portion that guides and limits hand movement. This intermediary structure allows the hand to move naturally enough for proper positioning while preventing excessive bending that could cause injury, thus resolving the contradiction between freedom of movement and prevention of harm.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a rigid structure is used to prevent hand breaking, then hand safety is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs flexible materials in the construction of the training device. The wrist portion and hand portion are designed to be flexible enough to accommodate natural hand movements and provide gentle guidance, rather than using rigid structures. This flexibility allows the device to prevent hand breaking through controlled guidance while maintaining simplicity and comfort, avoiding the complexity associated with rigid constraint mechanisms.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the hand portion is made rigid to maintain proper position, then hand position stability is improved, but the ability to allow desired hand movement is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the hand portion with dynamic characteristics that adapt to the golfer's hand movements. The hand portion is configured to be rigid enough to maintain proper position stability during the swing, yet flexible enough to allow desired hand movement and flexing. This dynamic design enables the structure to provide stable guidance while accommodating the natural dynamics of hand movement throughout the golf swing, resolving the contradiction between stability and freedom of movement.
Data Source
AI summary
A golf swing training device attachable to a golfer's wrist. A rigid hand stop prevents the golfer's hand from bending beyond a pre-established distance or angle during a golf backswing. The rigid hand stop is configured and positioned to not interfere with, or restrict, the golfer's address of the golf ball or the early part of the backswing. The rigid hand stop allows desired movement of, and prevents undesired movement of, the golfer's rear hand (i.e., right hand for right-handed golfers and left hand for left-handed golfers) as the golfer moves from ball address through the backswing to the downswing to the impact position and finally the follow through. A pliable ball member may be integral with, or removably attachable to, the golf swing training device to maintain wrists of the user in a spaced relationship through a golf swing.