Posted by: Dumber than Dirt (joe.flowers@nofreewill.com) on Tue Jun 14 15:51:27 2011

> > Bat too heavy?
> >
> > ---Nope, actually is a little light. 29 in/17 oz. He is 4'8" and 63 > lbs. Just the usual kid thing of getting the top hand elbow
> underneath his bottom hand elbow. He rotates his shoulders too soon
> so he is fully rotated well before impact with ball.

My youngest son is 4'6", 72lbs. 8yrs, old.
His 30 in./17.5 oz. bat was too heavy and was significantly dropping his bat speed. After watching and watching him, it became obvious to me that it was a bat weight problem. He had a hard time getting the ball out of the infield and it was almost always a grounder to the 2nd baseman. I got him a 29"/16 oz., and he immediately started hitting them in the outfield, some relatively deep between 2nd and 3rd base. The sadness and tears turned into happiness and smiles. He hit at least a couple to the fence and one being an in the park home run. He was sad and complaining before about not being able to hit it in the outfield.

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