With the game comes the gear, as technology advances into the 21st century so does technological baseball products.
There are some intensely engaging baseball products that are being produced year by year.
From baseball gear, to protection, to batting aids, , baseball training aids, shielding equipment and mementos, the approaching years guarantee great technological advances and some old tops. Each honored for the prime quality, competitive pricing, and creative designs. Top Baseball is advancing into the digital age by testing and using technologies to help in helping groups, referees, and individual players achieve perfect performance. S. This handy tiny gadget operates by the use of a touch screen tablet and is light weight and sturdy.
Using the personal Digital help ( PDA ) as its platform this program is superb for picking up player and team performance and even report printing.
The ever preferred video research adds that special side of realtime playback and the power to check from many various angles the player’s style or techniques. It could be terribly engaging to observe and wait to see what we can think about next.
There are also exciting new baseball batting trainers such as the Insider Bat which are patent-pending training devices which are changing the way that players and coaches practice. There have been many batting devices over the years but the Insider Bat is one of the first truly unique products on the market. The device using muscle memory to reinforce proper hitting fundamentals. The Insider Bat is not only an excellent muscle memory tool, it is also the perfect tool for diagnosing swing problems.
“Muscle memory” is a term used to describe a learned movement, pattern or habit. By performing the same movement pattern repeatedly, more effective nerve/muscle connections are made. After some time, the movements become automatic. This is the flaw with many batting trainers is that they allow for flawed mechanics. You can take batting practice every day and they more you swing with a flaw, the more that flaw becomes habit. As we all know…poor practice = poor performance and great practice = great performance.
The Insider Bat is quite the feat of engineering. The shaft angle was created to promote the “hands in front of the bat head” that is so popular with today’s coaches. The handle is designed to create proper hand alignment during the swing. There is a trigger that reminds the hitter where he hands should remain throughout the swing. The trigger is also useful during one-handed drills. The oval grip promotes proper knuckle alignment.
The best part about this new technology is that the player doesn’t have to think. All they have to do is hit. I hope that we will see more technology advances that really help the player and the coach.
Duncan is a baseball fanatic and successful little league coach.
Categories:
Tags:

Recent Comments