If Santa brings your DD a new MVP, you could have it ready by New Year's Eve, if you really wanted to. Then again, my approach to breaking in gloves tends to be pretty aggressive.
Anyone know about the Mizuno MVP Prime glove?
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If Santa brings your DD a new MVP, you could have it ready by New Year's Eve, if you really wanted to. Then again, my approach to breaking in gloves tends to be pretty aggressive.
Her league's tryouts are in mid-January so I'll have a couple weeks.
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both DD's used them - eldest used to go through a couple a year - moved on to Vinci as she got more serious
younger is now a catcher, but still has a floppy MVP in her bag as well
younger is now a catcher, but still has a floppy MVP in her bag as well
Man, I need to get in on your approach. It seems to take me forever to get a glove into game shape, then a few more times to get it truly broken in.
I got my DD's new All-Star glove ready for practice in less than a week. It's been another week, and she will use it this weekend for games. It's coming along nicely.
My goal is to soften up the entire palm area. I pound it with a mallet, stretch it, turn it inside-out, and do a lot of "shoe-shine" movement. A big part of my process it to sit on it. Fold it, sit on it for a while, fold it again in a slightly different place, and sit on it some more, repeat, repeat... With the pounding, it's similar - fold, pound, fold again, pound...working across the heel, the base of the web, and the top of the web. I also pound a ball into the pocket with a bat. Hard, and a lot. Between beatings, it gets wrapped with a Mizuno glove wrap (or stuffed between couch cushions) with a ball in the pocket.
A friend told me recently that he breaks in gloves with a process that includes parking his car on it. He did it recently with an A2000. I just stared at him in horror as he described the process.
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Yep. There's definitely some good info there. I'm not such a fan of using water, however.
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I think it took maybe a week for DD to be 100% comfortable with hers. It definitely comes to you stiffer than the Prospect (which has a lot of fabric on it) but hers did break in very quickly.
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i've done the water thing and it worked well.......2+ full seasons out of the glove and it is still in use
