Check it out:
https://www.theringer.com/sports/2019/8/15/20805338/world-wiffle-ball-championship-growing-sport
When I was a kid a looong time ago we used to have summer-long, three-player (my brother, me and a neighborhood friend) whiffle ball home run derbies. Pitchback was the strike zone, up against our garage door, we pitched slow-pitch (read the article, it's the purer form of whiffle ball) and across the street and over the sidewalk on the fly was a home run, grounder over the sidewalk saved you from being out, any ball caught or stopped before the sidewalk was an out. And yes, we spent the summer running across our neighbors front lawns lol...
I put this in the technical forum because those games were how I learned -- obviously long before I knew what it meant -- to create and use stretch and hit oppo. You can't muscle up a slow-pitched whiffle ball, especially with the light whiffle ball bat. Stretching, using a long-through swing and hitting oppo created the hardest-to-catch line drive home runs (versus easy to catch pop-ups to the outfield) and also crossed up the outfielder who was usually camped in what would have been left field.
Like everyone else, I've obviously pitched a million pre-game whiffle balls to girls hitting with their regular fast pitch bats. Never really played around with using a plastic whiffle ball bat as a training aide. But this story brought back memories
https://www.theringer.com/sports/2019/8/15/20805338/world-wiffle-ball-championship-growing-sport
When I was a kid a looong time ago we used to have summer-long, three-player (my brother, me and a neighborhood friend) whiffle ball home run derbies. Pitchback was the strike zone, up against our garage door, we pitched slow-pitch (read the article, it's the purer form of whiffle ball) and across the street and over the sidewalk on the fly was a home run, grounder over the sidewalk saved you from being out, any ball caught or stopped before the sidewalk was an out. And yes, we spent the summer running across our neighbors front lawns lol...
I put this in the technical forum because those games were how I learned -- obviously long before I knew what it meant -- to create and use stretch and hit oppo. You can't muscle up a slow-pitched whiffle ball, especially with the light whiffle ball bat. Stretching, using a long-through swing and hitting oppo created the hardest-to-catch line drive home runs (versus easy to catch pop-ups to the outfield) and also crossed up the outfielder who was usually camped in what would have been left field.
Like everyone else, I've obviously pitched a million pre-game whiffle balls to girls hitting with their regular fast pitch bats. Never really played around with using a plastic whiffle ball bat as a training aide. But this story brought back memories
