Using Heaver bat for practice

[FP26]

If your objective is to build strength and bat speed I am sure it has merits. However, if your objective is to develop and maintain superior mechanics I would think that changing bats is ill advised. You change the bat, you change the swing. I find it interesting how many players at the lower levels have 2 - 4 different bats in their bag depending on the speed of the pitcher or how they feel that day. If you cannot hit well with 1 bat what makes you think you can hit well with 3?

I often thought the same thing. Nearly every girl on our team has multiple bats in their bag including my DD. Currently DD carries 3. 1 is the composite bat that she uses in games. 1 is an Anderson that she used a couple of years ago that we keep just to use in the cages (dimple balls). It is 1 ounce lighter than her composite, but in reviewing Eric's bat weight database probably isn't lighter at all. Then she also carries her very first bat which I now use to hit grounders to the team before games.

Another girl on our team carries 1 1/2 bats Her favorite composite broke during a fall ball game last year and she continues to carry the barrel portion of it as a souvenir.

 

[crankermo]

My DD swings 33-25 Demarini but we practice with a 33-30 wood bat all the time. If your swing changes based on the feel of a bat your mechancis aren't as sound as you think.

 

[straightleg]

Crank, she must be pretty strong to swing a bat that heavy.


SL

 

[crankermo]

SL,

We do it all the time plus I pitch her baseballs as fast as I can. Great for hand eye. Personally I love to watch her swing with the wood. Nothing purer than the crack of wood. Like I tell her, wood doesn't lie, lol.

 

[Cannonball]

My dd has used heavier bat all her life in practice.

 

[laker]

DD has a Mizuno Whiteout 32 -8. We got it new in wrapper, cheap. She normally swings 32 -10 sized bats. Her Whiteout is dead like a wood bat, has a very small sweet spot, vibrates on any miss-hit ball. She practices with the Mizuno a lot lately and I think it's making her a better hitter. BTW - We've put a lot of swings on that bat hoping it would open up, and it never has. My Son and his buddies put a couple hundred swings on it in baseball BP even. It's a dead club.