SPORTING GOODS AND SHOCK ABSORBING MATERIAL USED BY BEING FITTED TO THE SPORTING GOODS

摘要

This invention relates to sporting goods capable of reducing impact or vibration indirectly applied to the body of a user such as an arm or legs while sporting through sporting goods fitted to his arms, legs, etc., and also to a shock absorbing material which provide sporting goods in use with the same effect while fitted suitably to the sporting goods. The sporting goods of the present invention is constituted by use of vibration-damping material having a vibration loss coefficient of at least 0.01 at normal temperature as at least part of the constituent materials of the sporting goods. The shock absorbing material used by being fitted to sports goods of the present invention uses a vibration-damping material having a vibration loss coefficient of at least 0.01, a weight of at least 3 g and height of at least 3 mm, and is fitted to the sports goods with at least one of its end in a free state in order for the material to generate a minute vibration or oscillation in response to vibration or impact propagating to it from the outside.