Question! Do you notice fly balls being challenging to catch with large amount of backspin from the one wheel design? Our lite flight machine is near impossible to catch when your shooting fly balls at 40+ mph due to the spin. Wondering if baseballs have the same problem or if it’s a foam ball problem. Ground balls with the lite flight also hit the ground and lose a ton of speed since they are back spinning vs top spinning. Any issues with ground balls on the PS50? Thanks
Yes, a ton of backspin. You can drop the launch angle and that helps. I prefer to prop front legs up with 4x4 blocks and add launch angle and work on opening up hips/turning and circling under ball. For a 12u and below more than enough of challenge. It is so great to work in and give younger kids the same trajectory and speed everytime versus a fungo flyball. The development is much much faster. 100 flyballs from machine in a half and hour versus maybe getting 20 fungo balls at practice, the development of an outfielder (12u, 10u, 8u) that has worked with a machine is UNCOMPARABLE.
Rob, my 8u son is in 40mph machine pitch baseball this year. Is this machine pretty accurate for pitching with that smaller wheel? Are you still enjoying this machine?
We haven't tried it with softballs, but we will field test it and get back to you on here. In tournament season right now, but will do in a few weeks. We're a baseball family, so we'll need to pick up some softballs from the store.
