Just wondering...

Notice the "studded up" analogy...

...BCat, See where I'm going? "locking" the muscles that allow/provide optimum bat speed is ignorant. Just the same as lifting weights before a basketball game. .....As a researcher, what would you suggest to the kids as for the optimum "on deck batter prep"? ....I'll also pass this question to the rest of TBR......Fish

 

What does a Marlboro, Gin & Tonic, and weighted....

.....bats in the on deck circle have in common?????.......I don't know but if the Babe, the Mick, and Billy Martin could give us answer, they'd say......Give me a light, and double, and a double in the scorebook! Thats the best research I'm capable of! LOL! Signed.....MICROFISH!!!!!

 

When a batter uses a weight bat in the odc one thing I have observed is that they have a tendency not to swing under the pitch as much. I believe that the weight differential creates a subtle change in the plane of the bat to the ball. The more the player tends to swing under the ball the more noticeable the improvement is after using the weight bat in the circle.

I have read several of those studies and they all agree, at least, that there is no increase in bat speed.

I can't argue with them but I know it makes you feel like it's faster. And most of us know that if you think it, you do it!

 

More testing is needed

Fish man if you need a guinea pig for your tests...I'm your man!!! Anything for the game!