APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAINING THE MOVEMENT OF A HITTING IMPLEMENT FOR HITTING A BALL, IN PARTICULAR FOR GOLF, FOR BASEBALL, FOR TENNIS AND FOR ICE HOCKEY

摘要

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for training the movement of a hitting implement for hitting a ball, in particular for golf, for baseball, for tennis and for ice hockey. Deviations in the swing from the perfect swing path lead to deviations from the target and shortening of the flight of the ball. The object of the invention is, when training a person to hit a ball, to both indicate a fault when there is a deviation in the movement of a certain hitting implement from the perfect swing path during the hitting operation in real time and also to permit analysis of the time profile of a hitting operation by recording said hitting operation. A means (12) for detecting the two-dimensional acceleration vector in the plane perpendicular to the axis of the shaft (1) of the hitting implement and a means (7) for determining the rotary angle of the two-dimensional acceleration vector about the axis of the shaft (1) of the hitting implement are connected to the shaft (1) of the hitting implement by means of a fastening apparatus (11), wherein the rotary angle counts from the beginning of the hitting operation. The apparatus also includes a data memory (10) for recording time-dependent data, a signal transmitter (9) for warning the person using the hitting implement of faults in the swing, and also a computer means (8) for determining the fault signal (69) in accordance with the method described here.