Patent ID: 9364057
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: A45B,A63C

Claim Text:
1. A sports or fitness training pole, the training pole comprising: a pole shaft having a pole length and a central region, the central region of the pole shaft being no more than one-half of the pole length and being disposed between an upper and lower quarter of the pole length; a grip fixed to a top end of the pole shaft, the grip having a front side and a rear side; a hand strap fixed to the rear side of the grip, thereby determining an orientation of the training pole with respect to a direction of travel; and a ring construction fixed to a bottom end of the pole shaft; wherein the training pole has a frontmost front side and a rearmost rear side with respect to the direction of travel; and the pole shaft has no more than two curved parts, including a first curved part in the central region of the pole and a second curved part between the first curved part and the grip, the two curved parts curving in opposite directions such that the pole shaft above the first curved part is disposed rearwardly of a straight line extending through the first curved part and the grip, the pole shaft below the first curved part is a straight, downwards-tapering cone parallel to and coincident with the straight line, the portion of the grip configured to be grasped is tilted toward the front side of the training pole at an angle of from 5 to 20° relative to the straight line, the entire portion of said pole shaft between the second curved part and the grip is straight and deviates rearwardly of the straight line so that a distance between the straight pole shaft portion between the second curved part and the grip and the straight line increases from the grip downward to the second curved part, and each curved part is at most about 10% of the pole length.