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I Would Do Almost Anything To Improve My Game, But I Am Not Sure That I Would Strap Myself Into This Contraption

By David Dawsey PE Esq

Would you strap yourself into this contraption to improve your game?

The drawings come from USPN 4758000 titled ?Games Stroke Practicing Apparatus.? The patent describes the invention as:

Practice apparatus for positioning a user in a golf stance and for guiding the user's body through a golf stroke. The apparatus includes a support for supporting an elevated crank arm assembly for pivotal movement about a golf stroke swing axis located by the support to pass through the upper body, neck and head of a user in a golf swing stance and substantially within the plane of symmetry of the user's upper body. The crank arm assembly has an offset portion spaced above the swing axis, and a pivot mounting is provided on the offset portion. A shoulder guide is mounted on the pivot mounting for pivotal movement relative to the offset portion about a shoulder guide pivot axis which intersects and is inclined to the swing axis. The shoulder guide extends beneath the offset portion for engagement with the shoulders of a user disposed in a golf swing stance.

Interesting.

David Dawsey  - The Golf Lawyer
 

Full post as published by Golf Patents on January 15, 2008 (boomark / email).