Bat Fitting and The Great Lakes Bat Co. Process
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Guest Bio:
Aaron Chamberlain is the co-founder of Great Lakes Bat Co. where they sell wooden baseball bats but also investing a bat fitting process that is gathering attention from Major League organizations.
Summary:
On this episode, Host Geoff Rottmayer sits down with Aaron Chamberlain of Great Lakes Bat Co., where we talk about the batting fitting process they invented and is having success with.
Show Notes:
In this conversation Aaron talks about:
- Traditional ways of bat fitting and how they worked to improve it.
- The studies they have read that lead their thought process.
- The development of their bat fitting bat and the thought process behind it.
- How the actual process of collecting the data and submitting the data works.
- Swing Weight vs Bat Weight.
- End Loaded vs Balance Bats.
- Handle size and whether it matters.
- How this fit a bat specifically to the individual swing weight.
- How often one should get fitted as they go through their development.
- and much more.
