Posted by: the hitman (ahsnumber3@aol.com) on Thu Nov 15 23:12:37 2001

I have trained my six year old on a tire for some time and used over/under training.During some tee work I noticed how hard he hit the ball with a 33/29TPX.I also saw that if he did'nt use his body properly he could'nt swing well at all.However once he got the proper sequence going the bat came around building good speed and the mass really hit the ball hard.The same proved true with me pitching to him.Now I am trying to bring him back down to a more proper size bat 30/24 but he has a tendency to swing slower now and the mass is much less.So I think that the training of the muscles to be fast as well as strong is of a large importance.AS we work on speed with lighter bats I will update my findings,anyone else tried these 2 opp. points.

hey rql,
I know Joe Dimaggio favored a heavy bat because he thought that he could control it better because it would keep you from overswinging, and it seems with lighter bats people have a tendancy to use just their upper body or arms to swing, as in heavy bats you must use your whole body, but i guess you should find that bat that is not too light, and not too heavy, sorry im a little naive
the hitman