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[100 not out]

They are pressed hard IMO. It's a case of buying a bat this season so it can be used next season.

[Aswani Cricket]

smash it with a mallet or use it a fair amount with the bowling machine

Agree that you really the more knocking you can do off season, the better a bat will play. I've never liked using a wooden mallet, always a ball in a sock (breaks the back of your hand though), then used balls in the nets. No personal experience of GM and whether they open up slower than other makes

[Buzz]

this has been discussed before, but there is a certain level of generic pressing with mass produced bats, hence with willow variations you get bats which reach their best at different times.

to say that they don't perform is absolute nonsense.
you need to knock in all bats, some for different times.
some middle positions don't work for people so the bat won't work as well in the hands of one player, but be sensational for another. this is not a new concept.

what we have established is there is no shortcut!

[LDifa]

I think they are fairly hard pressed, none of my knocking in has made any impact on the surface appearance,  I have an Icon and an Apex both 808s and both improving all the time, the only issue is now that I have found this forum I also have a Laver which is getting better & better.
I just need to play cricket every day to make use of them

[ajm90]

my old gm took knocking in and a seasons netting to open up properly, but once it did it was a gun

[keysersolze]

I like my GM bats very good and go ok and just seem to get better all the time!!! And I break em in on a bowling machine for 5 to 6 hours and they go just fine!!!!!

[Buzz]

I like my GM bats very good and go ok and just seem to get better all the time!!! And I break em in on a bowling machine for 5 to 6 hours and they go just fine!!!!!

not enough people on this forum realise it can take this long to knock a bat in, they are too impatient.

[Bez013]

Could it not be that a bat just doesn't suit your style of play so will never really 'go' for you? 

I had a GM Cannon 909 that I spent ages knocking in but I could never seem to hit the ball off the square with it so after a season gave up on it. 

I lent the GM Cannon to a team mate the following year who promptly went and samshed a 100 with it and couldn't understand why I didn't like it.

[Buzz]

yes that is possible too.

[yvk3103]

My original question was when I compare my GM Players Edition bat with my other bats - Salix Players, Newbery SPS and Puma Bionic; the GM is taking significantly more time to play-in and get going, so is there a way to accelerate.

I have used a Icon earlier and the profile I good for me.

When I hit the GM with a mallet or a ball, it feels more harder than the other bats I have and the sound is very high in pitch.

To update, I have knocked the bat in for an hour now; both with a wooden mallet and ball in a socks and response seems to be getting there.

[Canners]

My original question was when I compare my GM Players Edition bat with my other bats - Salix Players, Newbery SPS and Puma Bionic; the GM is taking significantly more time to play-in and get going, so is there a way to accelerate.

I have used a Icon earlier and the profile I good for me.

When I hit the GM with a mallet or a ball, it feels more harder than the other bats I have and the sound is very high in pitch.

To update, I have knocked the bat in for an hour now; both with a wooden mallet and ball in a socks and response seems to be getting there.

sounds like its gonna take some time, i would get yourself in the nets against the bowling machine

[uknsaunders]

I think it may have something to do with the bats being "pre knocked in" and possibly a second press being applied to meet this criteria. Had 2 GM's both seemed ready to go.