Indoor gym hitting. Few questions and looking for options.

Frost033 · Nov 21, 2018

My 14u team uses one of the local school's gyms for practice. Works great for throwing and fielding, but I'm struggling to get any hitting in as I don't want to spray balls all over the gym and risk breaking stuff. We've done some wiffle ball work, but nothing that really simulates actual pitching. Does anyone know of a good quick set up hitting cage we could use? Or does anyone have any other ideas, options or opinions.

Also, has anyone used the Jugs Light flight pitching machine. One of the dads on my team has one and has offered it a few times. Is this a reliable option or should I stay away from it?

Thanks in advance.

quincy · Nov 21, 2018

They will not let us hit in the gym.

If they will let you soft toss with a net should be OK.

cvsoftball · Nov 21, 2018

former AC had a Jugs, worked well. I also set up Ts and let them hit into the walls. doesn't the gym have a batting cage?

quincy · Nov 21, 2018

When we used local gyms it was the elementary schools. Good news it was free but they were just providing gym space.

They did not have any batting cages or any facilities.

We have 3 middle schools in our city. They built a new HS and DD went to the MS that used to be the old HS. Pretty sure that was the only one that had batting cages.

Frost033 · Nov 21, 2018

No, the gym we use does not have a cage, wish it did, that would eliminate a TON of problems for us.

MrTicl · Nov 21, 2018

We used to hit using the tcb balls ,had to show them to the school AD ,after he saw what they were and what they did we had no problems .

PNWdad · Nov 21, 2018

We use a Lite Flite machine and balls in the local high school gym. Not the biggest fan of that machine, but its better than nothing.

Frost033 · Nov 25, 2018

PNWdad said:
We use a Lite Flite machine and balls in the local high school gym. Not the biggest fan of that machine, but its better than nothing.

Thats kinda where I am. Its nice to see "live" pitching, but I feel like the balls float. I do have a Louisville Blue Flame, does anyone know, will it throw the light flight balls better than the machine?

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