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Muhl

The Muhl Kicker Training Bat

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  • Kicker Training Bat
  • 3-time Olympian Gold Medalist Leah O'Brien-Amico and MLB All-Star Lance Berkman.
  • 3-time Olympian Gold Medalist Leah O'Brien-Amico
  • Fastpitch model
  • MLB All-Star Lance Berkman
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Description

The Muhl Kicker™ is the only training bat on the market built specifically to hit live pitching, while improving eye-hand coordination, building strength and improving swing mechanics all at the same time!

The Muhl Kicker is a weighted training bat that can be used with regulation baseballs and softballs. It has a one-inch steel barrel which is connected to a machined aluminum handle using a patented shock absorbing connection. The Muhl Kicker has a clicker element installed in the barrel that clicks when the bat head is extended. This audible feedback is an excellent tool for teaching good swing habits in both baseball and fast pitch softball.

The Muhl Kicker is designed to teach you the "short stroke", keeping the hands in close to the body and throwing the bat head at the ball as opposed to looping the bat. The audible feedback of the Kicker is designed to help hitters teach themselves sound swing mechanics. With a good swing the click should be heard at or slightly before contact out in Front of the plate. This is achieved with good hip rotation and throwing the hands at the ball. Since you can use the Muhl with hard balls in live hitting drills, actual swing tendencies become more amplified to the user and coach. If you are casting the hands away from the body or looping the bat head, the Kicker will click early. A player’s own ability to hear the release point acts as a second coach and allows for self-teaching. Becoming proficient with a short stroke will generate quicker bat speed, allow more time to wait on a pitch and increase power too.

Small Barrel Training

The Muhl Kicker's one-inch barrel requires a player to really zero in on the ball. Mentally, hitters become comfortable with a certain amount of success (any contact with the ball) when taking batting practice with a normal bat. Eliminating much of that (normal) success with a small barrel will cause a hitter to make mental adjustments (more concentration) and physical adjustments (visual focus) to overcome that lack of "normal" success.

Using a Muhl Kicker Training Bat on a regular basis will build strength, develop power and increase bat speed. One of the biggest problems for young hitters and most hitters for that matter is a lack of bat control due to strength. Our bodies will only get as strong as we force them to. The light aluminum bats of today only force players’ bodies to develop just enough strength to handle the bat they use. Years ago, when we used wood bats our bodies developed strength to handle that particular weight. If you put a training bat with extra controllable weight in the hands of a hitter, their body will make the adjustments (getting stronger) to handle equally well this extra weight, thereby improving their ability to easily control a lighter aluminum or wood bat and hit a ball harder with more authority.

Muhl Kicker Training Bat Sizes

  • 28 inch x 30 oz.
  • 30 inch x 33 oz.
  • 33 inch x 41 oz.
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Warranty Information

One Year Warranty
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