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To be a Great Hitter - you must possess 3 basic components: Mechanics, Velocity (bat speed) and Power. The T-3 Elite Training Baseball Bat develops Baseball Swing Mechanics AND Baseball Bat Speed at the SAME TIME. The end result is an explosively POWERFUL baseball swing! The T-3 Elite Training Bat combines all of the fundamentals of the perfect Major League swing into a single, easy-swing action. The key to the T-3's success is the unique Sliding Grip and Counter-Balancing Weight System. This combination helps to build core strength with the precision and explosive feeling of a much lighter bat.  • Find Your Proper Path to the Ball  • Improve Your Bat Speed & Explosive Strength  • Learn to Accelerate the Bat Head through the Impact Zone You can now swing a heavier weight to build strength, while still being able to dominate the head of the bat in order to create the proper path to the baseball thus allowing you take your swing to unprecedented levels. Complete with Baseball Training DVD!

The T-3 Elite Training Bat and our superior Training Program will take your game to the next level! Included with your purchase of the T-3 Elite Training Bat is a complete Training Program on DVD, hosted by Jeff Forney, former Arizona Diamondbacks Strength and Conditioning Coach, assistant baseball coach/hitting instructor at Arizona State and Notre Dame, President of Triple Threat, Inc., and the inventor of the T3 Elite Training Bat. This ELITE Training Program contains a system of drills to ensure your success using the T-3. From Practice Swings to LIVE Pitching, Jeff Forney will guide you toward reaching awesome levels in your hitting, and  . . . you'll get immediate feedback - as you watch the ball scream off the bat. The T-3 let's you see your success! T3 Price:  $229.95 (ITEM T3BAT)

HOW IT WORKS The BARREL The T-3 is a barrel bat - cylinder bat - just like any other baseball bat. What makes the T-3 very unique is it can hit live pitching. It is a training baseball bat, but it is also used for the purpose of training while you're hitting live pitches, such as in batting practice. You can't use it in a game because any time you have an altered bat it is illegal. So this is not a live game baseball bat - it is for training purposes only. The WEIGHTS It has a dual loading system at the bottom and at the end. The plug at the end cap comes out and can be replaced with different weights. It also counterbalances. The bottom knob comes off and loads up with weight. The GRIP The sliding mechanism allows us to move something heavier because it gives us a leverage mechanism. So when I load up the end portion of the bat, the sliding grip gets me closer to the barrel of the bat. We're just simply using a leverage fulcrum type of action here - basic physics. We're getting closer to the head of the bat, so it lets me start to dominate that head. That's what I envision for a hitter to do is to dominate the head of the bat. As we get closer to the barrel we can handle the heavier weight, but the sliding action also starts to create the mechanics that we want to create - or the path that we want to hit the baseball. When we put our body in the hitting position we want the swing to be as quick as possible from the start of the swing to the contact zone, and that's what the sliding top handle helps us to do. The RESULT When we load up the bat, the counterbalance actually makes the head feel lighter. Physically you're swinging a heavier weight, but you get a feel of the bat head being a little bit lighter. And that's what's really unique about the T-3 bat! We want to learn to create and teach the feeling of dominating the head of the bat. Your body still gets the overload principle, whatever the weight may be. If I physically add 10 ounces in the handle knob, I have physically added 10 ounces to the bat - but it gives you the feeling of the bat being lighter in the barrel portion. The counter balance load focuses the emphasis of the weight in the bottom portion of the bat, which lets you start creating powerful, explosive head speed. And that's what it's all about! So we can take heavier weights, get that over-speed training effect yet we're moving heavier weight faster. So not only are we creating the explosive mechanics in the swing, but we're also training two crucial elements of training, over-speed and overload, and we're getting it all at once.

From Jeff Forney, Inventor.

I invented the T-3 Elite Training Bat because a player needs to possess three basic components to become a good hitter: Mechanics, Velocity (or bat speed), and Power or what I call the M.V.P. Hitting System. Mechanics plus Velocity equals the formula for Power. How do we start to get that? There are two basic principles for training an athlete: over-speed and overload. These two components are critical. This is the foundation if you want an athlete to get faster and stronger. Overload is the process of moving a heavier resistance so we that we tax the working muscles. Over-speed is the process of moving something lighter faster to create a neuromuscular training pattern. My goal was to combine these two components to create an explosive hitter. How do we get somebody to move something heavier or faster? And how can we bring in something heavier and actually teach them the mechanics? Well, that's the combination of The T-3 loading system and sliding grip.

OVERSPEED - In my years of studying the overspeed principle, I have learned that you must teach the body through force to move faster if there is to be a gain in speed. The overspeed principle forces the body to adapt to excess neuromuscular firing of fast twitch muscle fibers. If done properly, the body starts to respond with more speed - creating more force, power, and most of all, bat speed. In my studies of explosive movement of the body, I have discovered that we can get to the point where movement cannot be measured with the human eye. Therefore, the neuromuscular system must be trained with precision and a balance of the overload and overspeed principles. New technology has allowed for this process, but it is very expensive and is usually found only in our upper end training facilities and and at the professional level. Unfortunately, as great as the gains are at the upper levels, they fail to compare to the gains that could be made at the Youth/High School levels. If we can start teaching younger players the proper neuromuscular mechanics, as well as the skill mechanics, the better baseball player he or she will be which will result in more confidence and enjoyment of the game.

Often when there is a deficit or deficiency in a skill, three main components come into play:

• Lack of skill
• Lack of strength
• Neuromuscular mechanics of the sport

The last component mentioned often gets overlooked because most of the focus is the skill and strength, with the majority of that concentration going to the skill. When we get an imbalance in one of these areas, we get a very stiff robotic type of hitter. It is critical to understand that hitting is a very explosive and violent action. There is nothing passive about it, yet it has to be done with a fluidness of a slow-flowing stream, the grace of an eagle soaring on high.

A lot to ask? It is.
Hard to train? It is.
A lot of people teaching it? Very few.

Great news! The T3 offers the balanced blend of all three components. Every time you swing the T3 bat it is allowing you to work on your skill, strength and neuromuscular mechanics, allowing you take your hitting to unprecedented levels. Why not give it a try and see for yourself.