Patent ID: 7112152

Claim:
A hitting training aid for use with an elongated sporting implement used for striking objects comprising a plurality of vane devices connectable to one another around the periphery of an elongated sporting implement, and at least one fastening belt for fastening said plurality of vane devices together around the periphery of the elongated sporting implement, wherein each of said plurality of vane devices comprises a flat vane body, a relatively bigger top locating plate and a relatively smaller bottom locating plate respectively formed integral with a vertical side of said flat vane body near the top and bottom ends of said flat vane body and extending in a horizontal direction across said flat vane body, and at least one insertion slot cut through said flat vane body adjacent to each one of said top locating plates and said bottom locating plates, each of said top locating plates and said bottom locating plates having a circularly arched contact wall for contacting the periphery of the sporting implement with which the hitting training aid is to be used, a plug rod formed in one end thereof, and a plug hole formed in an opposite end thereof, the plug rods of each of said top and bottom locating plates being pluggable into the plug holes of said opposite top and bottom locating plates; said at least one fastening belt is respectively inserted through the at least one insertion slot of each of said vane device, said at least one fastening belt having hook and loop material for joining the ends thereof.