BACKGROUND

The present invention is directed to a training device that can be used by dancers and gymnast to improve their balance when twirling.

The inventor of the present invention was a gymnast that eventually became a physical trainer of dancers.

During his training of dancers he realized that most dancers lost their vertical alignment when twirling.

He researched devices in the market that helped dancers with their alignment, yet he found none that prevented dancers from cheating when twirling. Dancers tended to allow their buttocks to rest downward, sitting, when twirling, thereby causing the alignment of the dancer to be distorted.

The present device ensures that dancers remain aligned by raising the instep portion of the device and thereby raising buttocks of the dancer when twirling.

The device of the present invention addresses the need of having a twirling device that allows a user of the device to remain vertically aligned with his or her raised buttocks.

SUMMARY

The present invention is a twirl training device that allows dancers or gymnasts to correct their alignment when twirling.

The twirl training device is a mold that has a top and a bottom side. The top side receives the foot of a user. A front part of the top side of the mold receive the ball of the foot of the user. A middle part of the top side of the mold defines an instep that rises at an angle from about thirty degree to about 45 degree from the front part of the top side of the mold. The rear part of the top side is a heal portion. The bottom side of the mold has a front portion, a middle portion and a rear portion, the front and middle portion of the bottom side slope upward from the rear portion of the bottom side. The heal portion of the top side and the rear portion of the bottom side are parallel. The twirl training device has a width that is at least two and half inches.

The purpose of the twirl training device of the present invention is to improve the muscle tone of all of the muscles used when twirling, while preventing injuries that may occur when the proper alignment is not attained when twirling.

An object of the present invention is to provide a device that will help an athlete optimize vertical alignment when twirling.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a device that will help an athlete increase the muscle tone of muscles used when twirling. Muscles used when twirling are the Gastrocnemius, the soleus, the fibularis longus and the tibialis anterior.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a device that will ensure that athletes keep their buttocks at an upward position when twirling.

