| If you take a browse through some of the youth | | | | your child are serious about hitting, do yourself a |
| baseball bat web sites you will see youth baseball | | | | favor and go get some professional instruction. |
| bats for sale at prices of over 300 dollars. They | | | | These lessons are for the parents just as much. I |
| will also give you instructions on how to take care | | | | have learned so much from picking the brains of |
| of the bat so it will last at least a year. I have 2 | | | | my kids hitting instructors. I also have learned to |
| sons who play youth travel baseball and little | | | | trust them in sizing youth baseball bats for my |
| league baseball. I have felt guilty before that my | | | | kids. |
| sons didn't have the latest techno bat out there. | | | | They tell me to have them hold the bat near the |
| But as a coach and a student of the game, I | | | | handle with their weaker arm and raise the bat up |
| have come to firmly believe that it is so much | | | | to shoulder height. When they can lift the bat up |
| more the hitter, than the bat. Having a 300-dollar | | | | to that height with no problem, that is a correct |
| bat will not take the place of going to lessons, | | | | weight for them. I had much to learn about |
| buying a hitting video, and using it of course, or | | | | teaching how to hit a baseball. There where old |
| just plain hard work. | | | | ideas that that had to go such as elbow up, and |
| You can learn how to hit a baseball well even if | | | | take a big stride. I had to learn its hands first, |
| you are not blessed with the natural born talent | | | | then hips. Baseball coaches have access to some |
| of hitting. It is matter of work. I have seen time | | | | great youth baseball, and little league coaching |
| and time again, some kid with an old cu-31 alloy | | | | tools, if they know where to look on the Internet. |
| bat out hit kids with the 300-dollar unit. If you and | | | | |