Easton | POWER PAD BAT KNOB | Baseball/Softball | Multiple Colors

This thing works!! My daughter is super strong, but every time up to bat I could see she wasn’t swinging/hitting as hard as she could! I asked her about it & she said it was bc of the vibration/stinging! Full disclosure: I also applied Sting Off Cushion bat wrap, but in the past, bat wrap alone didn’t really make too much of a difference. However the combo of the thicker wrap & this product… Now when she’s up to bat… WOW!! I cannot believe how much harder she’s able to hit the ball!! It’s so fun to watch her now be able to play to her full potential!!

My daughter was having issues with the bat stinging her hands. This fit perfectly on the knob and helps eliminate the sting. It is a little tough to get on, but that ensures it doesn’t fall off.One note: it is bigger than I thought. The weighted donut used for swing warm ups won’t fit over it.

As a baseball fanatics fan, I bought this and hope to share something on the common questions that people want to know about this product. Bought this product couple days ago, the performance vise, hard to tell yet, my son still trying it out.This is an inexpensive piece of equipment but could have big impact on people's baseball swing. I own this and also the Grip-N-Rip bat grip taper (GNR grip):https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015KCSRM0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1I will compare this product against GNR grip because people often confused them as the same thing, they are similar but not the same thing. Briefly, this product is like a cover go around the knob, so it provides cushion especially for your power-V part of your swing, material is very soft. GNR grip goes on the bat handle, usually sit tightly against the knob, it kindly changed a standard straight handle to a flare handle and with finger grooves, material is much, much stronger, also provides a little similar cushion to prevent knob press again your palm during power-V.1. install abilityPeople asking this probably because they have experience with GNR grip, I have owned GNR grip for several months now, have put it on and took off from a few bats. So from experience it is very hard to put on and take off. We are talking about good 5 to 10 minutes of hard work if you have really strong fingers; otherwise, could be like mission impossible to do. Very hard to put on, but once it is on, it is very secure and material is super tough. On the other hand, this one "power pad bat knob" can be put on really easy, 10 or 100 times easier than GNR grip, it is too easy so that it does not feel very secure after installation.2. AdaptabilityI have a few bats from youth 28'' to adult 33'' different brands including wood bats and their knobs vary slightly from one to another, this product fits them all, pretty much the same way as long as you install it with the small hole goes on the bat FIRST. I think anyone find this not compatible probably install it wrong way.3. Can you use it as a choke up ring?Probably not. First it goes on the knob and stays there, so you can not stack multiple pieces up like you could with choke up rings; second, it is too soft, won't provides a hard stop behind your hand. By the way, even though I said this can't work as a choke up ring, but actually that is what I am using this for. I feel my boy's bat is tiny bit heavy for him, I wish he would choke a finger up or so, but not as much as a inch like many choke up ring do. With the thickness of this product as a knob cover, it seems fit my purpose so far, it will provides 1/4'' to 1/2'' or so clearance from the knob.Overall, I personally like the design, but not sure about its performance yet, too soon to tell. I do wish the material is much stronger, maybe like GNR grip if manufacturer is listening, it will work much better in my opinion. I am not surprised to read some batters went thru several of these in a season or they can fall off during swing for a strong hitter, it is because the material is too soft and it is too easy to install (therefore easy to come off too).

My 7 year old started Little League (machine pitch) for the first time this Spring. During his first experience with batting in the cage, he hit the ball a few inches above the handle grip tape and immediately complained about vibration hurting his hands. The second time it happened, he was done with trying to hit the ball. I researched padded grip tape, the prohitter thumb attachment, padded hitting gloves, and this power pad. For the price and installation ease, it was worth trying, and my son hasn't complained since that first session. Now he can concentrate on trying to swing as hard as he can at the ball. He still mis-hits at the same spot on the bat sometimes, but nothing hurts anymore so he keeps on practicing. The power pad small hole stretches over the bat knob and it is semi-snug. The wide hole fits loosely around the end of the knob (there is some give) but I believe that purposely aids in vibration management. For the price and effectiveness, and helping my son continue to want to learn baseball, I highly recommend this product.

THIS IS NOT A PACK OF 3.

I found this item to be slightly larger than anticipated. It is too large to fit securely over the end of my slow pitch softball bat. This could be user error if these are only meant for baseball bats.

I bought a box of these, in black, in 2015 when I was managing my son's youth baseball team. I was able to persuade only a few kids to use them, so I have plenty of them. My son has used them with success and I have used them on my slowpitch softball bats. The Power Pads eliminate the sting from miss-hits. Ours have remained pliable and have never cracked. My son and I have gone to commercial batting cages a few times when visiting relatives, when we did not bring our own bats. My son each time had to stop after a short while because the cage bats were hurting his hands. I just now realized (in 2019) that the absence of these Power Pads on the cage bats was undoubtedly the reason for the painful stinging he felt. So in the future we will always bring a couple of these Power Pads when we are unable to bring our own bats on trips, for use in commercial batting cages. These are a great invention.

Old school Easton! Dont change the making of our pastime products please!! Fits great on wood!!