SWIMMER Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: sportive equipment. SUBSTANCE: swimming pool basin is divided by longitudinal wall into two hydraulic channels communicated adjacent to oval basin end walls and making working portions of swimming pool. Two training swimmers are positioned in hydraulic channels at different sides of longitudinal wall, with one swimmer facing the other. Belts for retaining swimmers against movement in forward direction are attached to oval walls of swimming pool. As a result of swimmer hand, leg and body motion, water flow is created to circulate around longitudinal wall in countercurrency with respect to any swimmer. EFFECT: increased efficiency by simulating hydrodynamic process of swimming in open water. 2 dwg