hit the telephono polio....serious
Why would using a ball mallet be considered altering the bat? You're still putting bat to ball, and you aren't altering the bat.
Why would using a ball mallet be considered altering the bat? You're still putting bat to ball, and you aren't altering the bat.
Once you add something to the ball (stick to make it a mallet) then it is no longer USSSA legal thus making it illegal to hit it with a bat.
If going by the rulebook the only thing that is to hit the bat is a USSSA Sanction Approved Softball. With that being said hitting Launch 650 softballs is not legal either....technically speaking of course.
I think that's taking the rule a little too literally. I don't believe that you would ever get in trouble for using a ball-mallet to break in a bat.
I was wondering the same thing...Altered bats are frowned upon on this site but if a bat mallet is altering then why can you buy them off the board
Take a mallet (http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/i...bbing-Hammer/_/N-ntm0a/No-24/R-I1031782?Num=0) and carve out enough room to put it inside of a softball, and then smash your bat with it. Easier to keep track of rotation than BP, too.
Seriously - a "Ball Mallet" is essentially a hammer in the shape of a softball. If you wouldnt use a hammer, why would a "Ball Mallet" be any different. I know its old fashioned - I have never owned a worked bat - If you want it to get broken in and dont have time to swing it - take it to games tell team that anyone is allowed to swing it and make it a team bat for a few weeks. It will get broken in.
Seriously - a "Ball Mallet" is essentially a hammer in the shape of a softball. If you wouldnt use a hammer, why would a "Ball Mallet" be any different. I know its old fashioned - I have never owned a worked bat - If you want it to get broken in and dont have time to swing it - take it to games tell team that anyone is allowed to swing it and make it a team bat for a few weeks. It will get broken in.
Unless you're hitting BP, you're altering your bat. So just roll it and be done with it. **** these goons sitting around hitting the bat 100's of times with a mallet, lulz.
I think there's a company that you can send your bat to and they'll take 2-3 hundred bp swings on it.
if youre considering using a ball mallet or a telephone pole to bang the bat on, then you might as well roll it.....since all those methods are altering the bat
if youre considering using a ball mallet or a telephone pole to bang the bat on, then you might as well roll it.....since all those methods are altering the bat
Hitting a bat with a ball is altering the bat as much as hitting a ball with a bat.
Not in the eyes of USSSA. While the rule isn't the best, it is what it is.
The bat has been subjected to pressure in a manner that exceeds that of striking the bat at game speed swing
speed against a USSSA approved ball traveling at game speeds. Such pressure would include, but is not
limited to, compressing the bat, rolling the bat, vicing the bat or hitting the bat against an object such as a
tree or pole. The bat has in any other way had its on field performance improved by physically changing the
bat (other than by hitting the bat at game condition swing speeds against a USSSA approved ball traveling
at game condition speeds).