I bought this for my son and little league team. When i coach, i love to do pop flies and grounders when working on our fielding. I have wanted to try this for a while and finally grabbed one. The build of this is really nice, it's a hard rubber. If you throw it on the floor, it will bounce about a foot or two. Being rubber, it shouldn't crack, but it is hard enough to take a real beating(i would never bat with this). I don't expect this to break unless abused on purpose like batting. It throws fine if you are mixing it up with pop flies, but this all about grounders. It does a good job and ricocheting different directions. Now it goes fairly straight, don't think it will hit and the bounce 90% making it impossible to field, but it moves 10-20 degrees left/right/and up, making the kids move their feet and adjust. I used to just throw a ball left or right of my players but they would see that coming. With this, i can throw it right at them and still have it go either way, which is the best for their reactions to simulate the ball hitting dirt and holes on the field. If you have a child and are serious about their abilities, for the price, you shouldn't not have one of these.
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