Training device especially adapted for teaching snow boarding techniques

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In order to achieve these and other objects of the invention, the present invention provides an improved training device for snow boarding which includes a frame possessing a horizontal base and two spaced vertical posts.
A tubular arcuate track extends between the posts and forms a segment of a circle lying in a plane inclined with respect to a horizontal plane at an angle between about ten and thirty degrees.
An elongated support member formed in the shape of a snow board is secured adjacent a first, lower end to the base by a ball and socket mechanism.
The support member is mounted for movement along the track by a guide roller assembly disposed on the bottom surface of the support member, adjacent a second, opposite, upper end.
The guide roller assembly includes two brackets mounting two pairs of rollers, with one roller of each pair positioned above the tubular track and having a concave surface conforming to the tubular track.
Another roller of each pair is positioned below the tubular track and is adjustably mounted for pivotal movement, with the associated bracket, toward and away from the track, such that separation of the rollers can be adjusted to regulate resistance to movement of the support member along the track.
Resilient disks are disposed at opposite ends of the track and form stops which limit the extent of movement of the support member along the track.
As the support member moves upwardly from a lowest intermediate position on the track toward either side, a compound arcuate motion will be imparted to the support member, causing the corresponding side edge of the support member to incline upwardly, simulating the turning technique of an actual snow board.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated.
There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto