The present invention relates to a floatable breathing device. The floatable breathing device provides includes a head unit, a snorkel, a plurality of receiving passageways, and an internal pathway. The head unit has buoyant properties and includes an ornamental shaped outer housing and an inner housing positioned within the outer housing, the inner housing forms a head receiving section, the head receiving section is provided between outer surfaces of the outer housing and is configured to be contoured to a human head. The snorkel connects to and extends from the head unit. The plurality of receiving passageways are disposed about the outer housing and receiving the snorkel, the snorkel extending through and exiting a portion of the head unit above a predetermined waterline extending along a periphery of a lower portion of the head unit thereof and identifies buoyancy of the head unit in water. The internal pathway positioned along a base of the outer housing and extending through a center section of the head receiving section of the head unit.

In one aspect, a swim system may include a reverse thrust system worn by a swimmer proximate the frontal upper torso. The system provides a variable amount of reverse thrust such that the user can swim-in-place or make gradual forward progress. Importantly, this may enable a user to effectively extend a small residential pool to serve the same function as a twenty-five meter pool typically found at commercial or government facilities. The system also provides laminar current under the user while swimming, which solves the problems of leg drop, the need to out-kick the arm stroke, and turbulence and wave action around the head associated with conventional swim-in-place devices. Still further, in certain embodiments the system provides a relatively strong current in the region of the arm stroke moving away from the swimmer which provides enhanced resistance for proficient swimmers.

An aquatic game apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises a water skipping article, comprising a high-density foam material, a top surface having a rounded side profile, a rounded outer perimeter, and a bottom surface. The top surface of the water skipping article comprises a first elliptically extended face, a second elliptically extended face, and a continuous smooth-edged outer perimeter. The apparatus comprises a target, comprising a pop-up board and at least one of a plurality of fillable weight bags coupled to the pop-up board by at least one of a plurality of straps, wherein the fillable bags are configured to stabilize the target on a water surface. The pop-up board of the target comprises an upper surface having a plurality of pocketed nets, and a lower surface having a plurality of integrally formed flotation units, wherein the upper surface is elevated above the lower surface by a support pole.

A tossing game includes placing two floating goals spaced apart in a body of water, each goal defining a scoring region. The participants add an amount of water to cups and toss the cups in the direction of one of the goals for at least two turns, with the participants awarded points in response to the cups being tossed into the scoring region. Each filling of the cup during a participant's turn adds variability to the game, challenging the participants to determine a suitable amount of water to be placed in the cup for their own throwing technique as well as to repeatedly add approximately the same amount of water on subsequent turns once the participants have determined the fill level that best suits them.

Anchored HydroResistance Speed Training is a running speed training apparatus and training method which is used/done underwater. The apparatus is used to firmly stabilize a floating person's hips while they carryout sprinting mechanics in a maximal rate of force development manner against the resistant environment of the water they are submerged in. The rationale is to enable water-resisted maximal rate of force production training using sprinting mechanics, where this otherwise is not feasible due to the lack of anchoring to a sturdy surface. The apparatus provides the necessary anchoring of a person to an affixed object and stabilizes the waist, iliac crest, anterior iliac spine, and thoracolumbar regions, without restricting limbs, thereby allowing the primary ranges of motion involved in sprinting. The base of the apparatus is firmly affixed to the floor of pools by way of a suction cup base or by being permanently installed into a pool floor.

A wave pool and wave generating mechanism are disclosed. The wave pool includes a bathymetry that includes a dynamically shapeable reef along a length or circumference of a channel that defines the wave pool. The wave generating mechanism includes a foil that has a shape for bi-directionality based on an adjustment of a yaw angle of the foil. The foil can be further controlled to increase or decrease certain surface areas or other angles of interacting with water in the wave pool.

A swimming board having a buoyant board body having an upper surface defining, with a continuous body sidewall, a channel recessed into the board body and disposed proximal to the second end of the board body and having a strap fastening assembly coupled to the board body and with a groin strap and a waist strap that define apertures for receiving a user's legs and retaining the user to the board body.

The present invention relates to a floatable breathing device. The floatable breathing device a head unit, a mask and a snorkel. The head unit general includes an ornamental shaped outer housing, an insulated housing positioned within the outer housing and having an ornamental shape and buoyant properties, and a head receiving section provided between the outer housing and the insulated housing and contoured to a human head. The mask extends from the outer housing, while the snorkel extends through and exits a portion of the head unit above a predetermined waterline.

A swim training apparatus for use on a hand of a swimmer in water during a swimming motion, said training aid apparatus comprising: a plate member having a first surface and an opposed second surface and a leading edge and a trailing edge. The first surface has four straight grooves having a bottom and elevated sides along passing from a base of the first surface adjacent the wrist towards a top of the first surface where fingertips extend, wherein height of the elevated sides is at least 1 mm higher than a lowest point of the bottom of the groove.

To precisely identify a state of an athlete who is present in a swimming pool, a processor used in a device for identifying a state of an athlete or a method for identifying a state of an athlete refers to a result of performing processing of detecting the athlete in a video image obtained by imaging the athlete who is present in the swimming pool and identifies an advancing direction of the athlete as a direction that is different from the previous advancing direction on the basis of a result of the detection of the athlete after the athlete is present in a region on the side of an end of the swimming pool. In this manner, it is possible to more accurately identify the advancing direction of the athlete and to thereby precisely identify the state of the athlete who is present in the swimming pool.