Patent ID: 6364790
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
Apparatus for teaching a hockey player to keep his head up while stickhandling a hockey puck with his hockey stick, said apparatus comprising a thin mat member having a length and a width each substantially greater than its thickness, a generally centrally disposed longitudinal axis extending along its length, and including a bottom stratum presenting a slippage precluding bottom surface and a top stratum adjoined to said bottom stratum and presenting a low friction substantially planar top surface for receiving a hockey puck in free sliding relation thereon, said apparatus further comprising a first obstacle situateable adjacent said thin mat member so as to extend upwardly from said top surface of said thin mat member, thereby providing a first circumventable obstruction to the passage of said player's hockey stick and said hockey puck along said top surface of said thin mat member.