BACKGROUND
Needless to say, a fundamental skill in the game of baseball is the ability to hit the ball. For beginners, being able to make any sort of contact with a thrown ball is sufficient. However, more skilled players not only want to be able to hit the ball but also to direct it to a particular part of the field. Some players learn this skill through trial-and-error; however, there are known techniques for so directing the ball which can be taught and learned. As might be expected, a skill this important to the play of the game has been subject to a large number of inventive efforts and there are various devices on the market that seek to help a player better understand and learn how the bat and/or swing angle can be adjusted to influence the resulting ball trajectory. However, all of the prior art approaches have various problems. Thus, what is needed is an improved apparatus to assist a ball player learn how to hit the ball in a particular direction by adjusting the angle of the swung bat.
SUMMARY OF TECHNOLOGY
There is provided herein an apparatus and method for teaching a baseball participant how to best swing a bat in order to urge the struck ball to fly in a particular direction. More particularly, various embodiments taught herein provide immediate feedback to the batter to assist them in adjusting the angle of the bat during a swing so that the struck ball is launched according to the desired trajectory. No other known product corrects both the swing plane and swing path of the bat so that the ball may be hit correctly.
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