- Oct 14, 2008
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Anderson does sponsor a few D1 teams. The biggest reason you do not see them like you do Easton, Worth or Louisville is that softball is a title 9 sport and the SB department uses what ever their money making departments use.
If you look at D2 or 3 you will see a ton of Anderson bats. Where the coach lets the kids use what ever bat they want.
The 04/05 R/T was banned by NCAA D1 because of the ball exit speed.
The knob on the R/T has a patent on it by Anderson and was made for a specific reason. It is ment to lay almost in the palm of the hand for extra whip.
Alot of the reason that R/T wont work for alot of people is that when you are buying a certain size you are buying swing weight not the actual weight of the bat. Anderson actually weighs on the avg 2 to 2.5 oz heavier than their sold weight. So if little suzy swang a 31/21 and dad sees a kid clobber a ball and goes and buys his dd a r/t the same size he has actually put her in a 31/23.5 and dosent know until its to late that she cant swing it.
It takes a certain hand path to swing a heavy end loaded bat like the R/T. That is probably the best reason I can come up with that a newer bat would out preform the older model. to put it simply the person swinging the bat has the hand path geared towards the more balanced bat and can get the most out of it.
Some will say that the bat wasnt made for power hitters. What most do not realize is that the bat needs to be rotated every swing, when you create a wave from a shot the next at bat rotate it and the wave will move on the other side of the outer wall. Thats how it was designed to be used. Most either couldent swing it fast enough or with the correct hand path to make full use of the bats double wall design.
I have seen 325 foot shots with the R/T. I have yet to see a newer style bat do that. In the hands of a true power hitter the older r/t is no longer a bat it becomes a weapon. For us that have metal heads for dd,s , it was and is the ultimate bat ever produced and will never be duplicated.
Tim
If you look at D2 or 3 you will see a ton of Anderson bats. Where the coach lets the kids use what ever bat they want.
The 04/05 R/T was banned by NCAA D1 because of the ball exit speed.
The knob on the R/T has a patent on it by Anderson and was made for a specific reason. It is ment to lay almost in the palm of the hand for extra whip.
Alot of the reason that R/T wont work for alot of people is that when you are buying a certain size you are buying swing weight not the actual weight of the bat. Anderson actually weighs on the avg 2 to 2.5 oz heavier than their sold weight. So if little suzy swang a 31/21 and dad sees a kid clobber a ball and goes and buys his dd a r/t the same size he has actually put her in a 31/23.5 and dosent know until its to late that she cant swing it.
It takes a certain hand path to swing a heavy end loaded bat like the R/T. That is probably the best reason I can come up with that a newer bat would out preform the older model. to put it simply the person swinging the bat has the hand path geared towards the more balanced bat and can get the most out of it.
Some will say that the bat wasnt made for power hitters. What most do not realize is that the bat needs to be rotated every swing, when you create a wave from a shot the next at bat rotate it and the wave will move on the other side of the outer wall. Thats how it was designed to be used. Most either couldent swing it fast enough or with the correct hand path to make full use of the bats double wall design.
I have seen 325 foot shots with the R/T. I have yet to see a newer style bat do that. In the hands of a true power hitter the older r/t is no longer a bat it becomes a weapon. For us that have metal heads for dd,s , it was and is the ultimate bat ever produced and will never be duplicated.
Tim
