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[Gurujames]

Bat speed has a fair amount to do with it.  And to be fair timing. A heavy bat is only useful in the hands of someone with the strength/timing to wield it.

[InternalTraining]

Bat speed has a fair amount to do with it.  And to be fair timing. A heavy bat is only useful in the hands of someone with the strength/timing to wield it.

This is true. There is an optimum middle between weight and bat speed for each individual where they can hit sixes with the max possible weighted bat they can wield and swing to produce a certain bat speed. In a coaching video that I saw, the coach said that you need 80+ mph bat speed to hit the ball 90 yards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIrThkyIGYs

[jd163]

From the experience with the bats i have i can confirm that Bigger size bats pings & perform better than the smaller size bats of same weight.

I have 5 bats with same 2-13 weight and but different sizes. Here are the rating performance wise

GN Signature (51 edge and 75 spine)
B3 Warner Replica (50 edge and 70 spine)
Kook Obscene (48 edge and 70 spine)
Aldred Velocity (35 edge and 60 spine)
B3 TKC (43 edge and 65 spine)

Hope this helps.

[Woodyspin]

All in your head

[Churchy1989]

I may be wrong (I normally am), but I recall seeing a post or something on the internet. Its was to do with the height of the spine, and were the ball is struck, to optimise the response of a shot it should be in the middle and struck at the highest point of the spine. This was to do with the vibration from where the ball strikes the bat which goes to the back of the bat (spine) and then back to the face.

Without finding the thread or site I have no prof and I am by no means a scientist. I don't think it is the density of the bat but the volume of wood from the face to the spine.

You can then go into pressing - but I do not know much about that.

[InternalTraining]

I may be wrong (I normally am), but I recall seeing a post or something on the internet. Its was to do with the height of the spine, and were the ball is struck, to optimise the response of a shot it should be in the middle and struck at the highest point of the spine. This was to do with the vibration from where the ball strikes the bat which goes to the back of the bat (spine) and then back to the face.

Without finding the thread or site I have no prof and I am by no means a scientist. I don't think it is the density of the bat but the volume of wood from the face to the spine.

You can then go into pressing - but I do not know much about that.

This is a good point. What you are describing is the same principle behind a golf driver.