Swing trainer

[TheHeat]

I was at the ball park last night for practice with my U10 all star team. The U8 coach had the field before me and had an assistant from the local high school there with a swing training device. It was basically a tee to sit the ball on and some guides that you have to swing the bat through to hit the ball. The thing that really got me was that the guides were angled down so to hit the ball without hitting the guides you had to swing down at a pretty steep angle, probably at least 20 degrees down. The angle was not adjustable.

Has anyone else seen this particular swing trainer? If so, do you know what it is called. It is basically some tubing in an elongated U shape, on a stand. We have a fairly successful high school team and I was really shocked that they use this device.

 

[obbay]

did it look like this:

Instructo Swing

These are supposed to be good (I think Steve Englishbey likes these) and also adjustable. the one you were loking at may not have been adjusted correctly for that batter.

Then again, coaches don't always know what they are doing.....

 

[Amy in AZ.]

The original one was angled down, I believe. I think that they improved on their design, later on.

 

[Chris O'Leary]

I was at the ball park last night for practice with my U10 all star team. The U8 coach had the field before me and had an assistant from the local high school there with a swing training device. It was basically a tee to sit the ball on and some guides that you have to swing the bat through to hit the ball. The thing that really got me was that the guides were angled down so to hit the ball without hitting the guides you had to swing down at a pretty steep angle, probably at least 20 degrees down. The angle was not adjustable.

Has anyone else seen this particular swing trainer? If so, do you know what it is called. It is basically some tubing in an elongated U shape, on a stand. We have a fairly successful high school team and I was really shocked that they use this device.

This is common, and bad, advice.

As someone else said, I think the device is now adjustable to reinforce a slight uppercut.

 

[TheHeat]

That's the one

That is exactly what it looked like. It must have been one of the original ones because it was not adjustable. Thanks for the replies.