I was doing a patent search at work (on a totally unrelated subject) and this patent showed up somehow in the search results.
An interesting concept for swim training if you hate being in the pool. I doubt that it works really well. I just thought I would post, as it looks like an interesting gadget. Basically, this guy has to have allot of free time to come up with this.
Hey, that is exactly the same as the sex machine I invented. Anyone know a good patent attorney?
Wow. It’s amazing how complicated you can make a simple concept. I think VASA came up with something a wee bit more straightforward.
BTW – I finally gave in to VASA lust and got one. I had borrowed the basic unit from a friend last winter and loved it. I located a used VASA ergometer and bought it cheap “enough”. That thing is hard. The big difference from the regular VASA is that the regular one will pull your arms back forward for you; on the erg, you have to swing them up and out yourself.
It has taken me a few weeks just to work up to 2x 5’ sets on the lowest resistance setting. I don’t know if I’ll swim any better when I get back in the pool in March, but I know for sure that I’ll have a lot more power and stamina in the primary swimming muscles. I just wish the thing had a way to work on the kicking muscles.
This is the funniest post that I’ve read in weeks…
Thank you so much for this…
HA!!!
So awesome. Fired this off to my masters team, - they are going to LOVE this…
More toys to prevent people from swimming well… HA!!!
This is the funniest post that I’ve read in weeks…
Thank you so much for this…
HA!!!
So awesome. Fired this off to my masters team, - they are going to LOVE this…
More toys to prevent people from swimming well… HA!!!
If swimfan saw this, his head might explode. Would anyone care?
I just got a cold shivver down my spine when I saw that patent. I went to college in London and one summer I had the worst job on the planet in the UK patent office. They would receive tons of paper every day, all patents and patent applications. They were either US, British or Japanese. My job was first to separate them into 3 piles and then begin the process of putting them in numerical order. As you can see from this US patent they are 7 figure numbers…after an hour or so of putting them in order you are ready to jump out the window.
yea hold on i forgot to put in the crystals… 'kay, turn it on.
IT KILLS! AHHHHH TURN IT OFF! Ow, my back oww… turn it off turn it off kip… its a piece of crap, it doesnt work!