Any tips on getting it broken in? Bought a new CF5. Went with a longer bat 31/20 because my DD is growing about a 1/2 inch per month. She was 4-8 in March now she's 4-10. Think she will be around 5-1 in the spring.
Open box, remove wrapper and wholla! Your bat is ready to use and will not get significantly hotter with additional use.....
If this were true then why would they test bats? Just to catch cases of shaving & rolling? Also why then is rolling bats a known "betterment" to the pop of a bat?
For our experience with CF4-CF6 => each one is "fine" out of the wrapper but at 3/4 of a year (roughly) the bat gets noticed as "hot". Then at roughly 1 year old it slowly rolls off on performance until at roughly 1.5 years it explodes.
Got the new bat tonight. Went to the fields and hit two buckets. It's the first high end bat I've ever purchased. It makes a difference. The crisp hit balls seemed a lot faster. It also seemed like they were hit further.
Got the new bat tonight. Went to the fields and hit two buckets. It's the first high end bat I've ever purchased. It makes a difference. The crisp hit balls seemed a lot faster. It also seemed like they were hit further.
A lot of fun, you wonder why you waited so long.
Wish her good luck with her new bat! It just helps her, she is the one that still needs to swing the dang thing.
CoreSoftball20 - do you have access to an ASA compression tester? Would LOVE for you to compression test a bat right out of the wrapper, then roll it, retest it, then hit with it for a couple of weeks, retest and publish the results. In the older composite bats there was a significant performance improvement after break in, but I think with today's composite bats the performance improvement will be minimal.
Also - as I like to remind my DD, it does not matter how "hot" the bat is if you do not hit the ball in the "sweet spot"!