FOOTBALL PLAYER EXERCISING GROUND Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: sports, in particular, means for development of moving skills during working out of strikes with different ball serving angles and distances.

SUBSTANCE: exercising ground has ball catching and returning apparatus with bars, guarding net, target and inclined members for rolling balls into vehicle, which moves balls to feeding site located in the vicinity of bar on ground. Vehicle is formed as inclined trough. Feeding site is first site of circuit of arrangement of sportsman on ground, behind which other sites are arranged. Mutual arrangement of said sites is determined by values of ball serving angles and distances to be worked out. Said circuit is terminated with strike site. Inclined trough may be made bifurcated in its lower part into two inclined transverse troughs for transporting balls to one of two sites, said transporting being provided by means of change-over device located at bifurcation point and made in the form of gate attached to vertical shaft rotatable around its axis for closing one of transverse troughs. Feeding sites are arranged symmetrically with respect to longitudinal axis of ground. Pairs of circuits beginning from two feeding sites are symmetrically arranged with respect to each other and have ball serving angles of equal value but of different signs. Angles between chain links are multiple 45 deg. At least part of exercising time is spent on three-site circuits with additional pairs of sites provided as intersection sites of outer links or continuations thereof in the form of lines parallel to circuit mid link and defining exercising contours with different distances. Two circuits with links may be arranged at obtuse angles. One of circuits may begin at feeding site of one apparatus and terminate in second circuit of other apparatus. Other circuit may begin at feeding site of other apparatus and terminate in one apparatus to thereby compensate usage of balls. Ground may have coordinate grid with longitudinal and transverse peripheral row numeration. Sportsman's arrangement sites may be marked on ground with screeds formed as round members made from elastic materials of different colors and having 200-350 mm diameter, said screeds being arranged in juxtaposition. Places of arrangement of sites may have receptacles with illumination devices provided with safety glass, their electric circuits coinciding in direction with exercising circuits and being switched to power source through packet switch.

EFFECT: increased efficiency in sportsmen exercising.

10 cl, 9 dwg