Three actually! 1.1mm is normal they have a thicker and thinner one also.
DD won't transition to better equipment
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Three actually! 1.1mm is normal they have a thicker and thinner one also.
My daughter is a creature of habit. It takes awhile for her to have confidence in new equipment. If she swings a certain size bat I can get the same exact bat but 1" bigger but it will take her months to swing it doing battingat home before she will use it in team practices and games.
Same with her glove. She will break it in during individual pitching practice forever before using it in even a team practice.
I would just be patient with her. Younger girls need confidence to do well, and sometimes that is their confidence in their equipment.
If she truly is hitting better with it, let her swing it at home with Tee or soft toss work. After she's swung it a little with no pressure, take a tee and set it at home plate. Have her hit five balls with each bat so she can see which hits farthest. If it does you will be surprised she will start using it on her own within a few weeks.
Same with her glove. She will break it in during individual pitching practice forever before using it in even a team practice.
I would just be patient with her. Younger girls need confidence to do well, and sometimes that is their confidence in their equipment.
If she truly is hitting better with it, let her swing it at home with Tee or soft toss work. After she's swung it a little with no pressure, take a tee and set it at home plate. Have her hit five balls with each bat so she can see which hits farthest. If it does you will be surprised she will start using it on her own within a few weeks.
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Or you could do what my M-I-L did to F-I-L. He had a pair of really ratty old slippers he refused to stop using after she bought him new slippers. He dug them out of the garbage can on two different occasions. The M-I-L cleaned up after the dogs one day and filled the old, ratty slippers. Needless-to-say, they did not find their way out of the garbage on that day.
at her first (weather has sucked lately) rec (LL) practice last night, when her time for BP came around, she actually pulled the "new" bat out without prompting, gave a big thumbs up. couple of nice hits, one big pop fly, but was really trying too hard. AC throwing BP (I am also an AC, I was in field working with fielders, this is 7/8/9 yr olds, some first time players) was really giving her crap to hit, so she was trying too hard. when I am able to be there, I will offer to throw BP to HC.
I love this! My 18U DD is still using the same glove I got her at 10U. I bought her a very nice new glove a few years ago and she will not use it. She doesn't like switching bats either but when the last one developed the "rattle of death" she had no choice.
Hide the old stuff
So much yes! Got a $250 catchers mitt that DD wouldn't use because it was "too stiff" and she preferred the $60 catchers mitt that was floppy. Hid the old one, forced her to use the new one, now it's broken in and she doesn't complain about it any more.
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My boys were never like this.
My boys were never like this.
It could be worse... Your DD could send you texts for the custom Demarini that just hit the market or the new glove that comes with financing or she could want to change bats like socks... Fortunately both of my DD's were not that way, even though they would get hung on a particular bat of glove, which is common at some point... but, I coached a girl one time that I swear her dad had to have a key to the sporting goods store or was a distributor or something - four bats in her bat bag, two gloves, new cleats seemed every other tournament...
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