Patent ID: 6899581
Filing Date: 2005-05-31
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A water paddle used on the hand of a swimmer for surface and underwater swimming, snorkeling, water aerobics and other water exercises, the water paddle comprising: a round, hand held, lightweight, round, flexible plastic, hydrodynamic paddle disk, said paddle disk having a front and a back, said disk having a diameter sufficient for covering the hand and fingers of the swimmer, the back of the disk adapted for receiving a palm of the swimmer's hand; and an adjustable hand strap, said adjustable strap received through a length of a pair of parallel hand strap slots in said disk, the length of said parallel hand strap slots greater than a width of said adjustable hand strap so that said hand strap can be adjusted up and down on said paddle disk for allowing the swimmer to adjust his or her hand at more than one position on the back of paddle disk, said hand strap received over a back of the swimmer's hand, said hand strap having a width sufficient to cover a portion of the back of the swimmer's hand; whereby said adjustable hand strap has a first side and a second side, the first side adapted for receipt of the hand in a first position on said disk, the first side disposed below a center line of said disk, the second side disposed along the center line of said disk, the first position allowing said disk to cover the hand and fingers of the swimmer; whereby when said disk is rotated 180 degrees, said adjustable hand strap has the second side adapted for receipt on the hand in a second position on said disk, in the second position the first side is disposed above the center line of said disk and the second side disposed along the center line of said disk, the second position allowing the fingers of the swimmer to grip an edge of an upper portion of said disk.