The company Blast Motion has recently made a ground-breaking announcement that it will be bringing its unique bat sensor technology to a much younger market very soon.
As of right now, Blast Motion is the only bat sensor producer for the MLB, helping the league track the movement of bats as they are being swung. This is important for statistics as it allows people to analyze the angle at which balls are hit, their distance, and the velocity that drives them.
In the past, this technology has only been available to professional players, but it will now be implemented in younger baseball markets in the coming months for the first time.
This is an important feat for Blast Motion and for youth baseball, as the children and teens practicing and participating in games will now be able to have access to accurate statistics surrounding their performance. For many, this can allow them to actually understand where they hit the ball, how fast they do it, and how both of those factors affects their success as a batter. Though it may not seem relevant, understanding the science behind sports is an integral part to finding success, but many younger sports leagues don’t recognize this or provide the participants materials to understand what’s going on
Through understanding the physics surrounding the games that they’re playing, children will be able to improve both their knowledge of baseball and of science, two important professions that they might not necessarily link together on their own.
Possibly the most exciting part about this new development is the possibilities that will now open up with being able to teach children how to play baseball. Because we can now analyze their motions more precisely, it will be easier to show children what the exact type of swing they should be doing and how efficient their batting skills are.
What’s especially interesting about this development is that Blast Motion is not limiting this progress to just baseball. In fact, they will also be rolling out this exciting new technology for other youth sports, such as golf. In fact, earlier this year they teamed up with the company TaylorMade to make a putter that was able to analyze the same things as the smart bats, something that will also change the way youth golf is played and taught.