Pro swing

[2DDspitching]

By no means am I promoting this , just ran acrossed it today on the net and thought it might bring up some interesting comments.

Go to proswingusa.com

Isnt this going against what is being mostly taught ?

 

[SBFAMILY]

"that will teach hitters to bring their hands to the ball on the correct swing plane". That statement and it looks like it teaches you swing down on the ball. Not sure about this but my first reaction is you are right.

 

[Ken Krause]

It's useful if you want to hit ground balls to the infield from what I can see. Not good if you want to hit anything else.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

 

[Greenmonsters]

It's useful if you want to hit ground balls to the infield from what I can see. Not good if you want to hit anything else.

Turn it around so the higher end is toward the pitcher and it might serve a better function!!

 

[Amy in AZ.]

Even when I taught linear, so to speak, we didn't do this.

I noticed that some of the hitters are hitting correctly, despite the apparatus, not because of it.

And $200.00? I think not, all I need is some pvc pipe and even I could make this. I, too, wondered about turning it around.

 

[lhowser]

Comical...look at the best shots that are taken off actual soft toss in the video. They are the girl with the red top and black pants and she takes a completely different swing plane than the device promotes. Then when she hits a line drive using a different swing plane the guys in the background go..."Niiiccccee..whoooooooo!"

 

[starsnuffer]

Egad. This is almost as bad as the guy trying to sell a T with a light in it so the batter would have a "visual reference point" to tell them if they successfully hit the ball off the T.

Maybe, and I'm stretching it here, if it were taller and adjustable, and much longer, you could use this to teach slappers to keep their front shoulder down. That's the only time I advocate keeping a chopping angle. . . and that's only for a few types of slapping on hard infield surfaces, certainly not powerslapping.

-W

 

[softballphreak]

If the front support is adjustable so that you can make it level it might make a good tobacco rack for tying tobacco.

 

[starsnuffer]

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck the batter is doing with his front foot. I think that field is riddled with cleat-eating spiders.

-W