Radial Bat™ Design Characteristics
How It is Made and Why (Safety Info)
How It Is Designed
The Radial Bat design was defined by the challenge to eliminate the advantages of metal and composite bats over wood bats. This means making a wood bat as durable as any metal or composite bat. This also means maximizing the beneficial characteristics already inherent in wood bats while maintaining the integrity of the game. And it means making a bat that provides superior performance for the hitter.
With these design goals in mind, the owners of Radial Bat developed a new wood bat. Instead of turning a bat from one piece of wood, which hides many flaws within, Radial Bat uses patent pending methods to mill wood into wedges. These wedges are aligned so when they come together, they create a solid wood Radial Bat with tight grain on the entire surface.
What Makes It Effective
The grain pattern of the Radial Bat provides several important structural advantages. The omni-directional, tight grain ensures that all hits are struck with the firmest wood. The wedges come together at the center of the bat as a group. In this configuration, they support each other and prevent any single wedge from failing. This provides a virtually unbreakable wood bat.
The wedges and the orientation of the grain dampen vibration propagation and minimize the discomfort of stinging hands due to the “bees.”
For young players, Radial Bat design is so strong that significantly lighter weight bats can be manufactured than traditional wood bats without increasing risk of breakage.
Durability Warranty
The Radial Bat design and manufacturing methods (Patent Pending) produce robust and durable bats. Consequently, Radial Bat stands behind all of its bats with a One Year Limited Warranty.
Safety - Everyone is Better Served
Reaction Time
A player is in danger when he cannot tell how fast a ball may reach him.
Ordinarily, the ball's speed is determined by the batter's swing, but newer, composite bats, which have a small but effective trampoline sweet-spot, may propel a ball far faster than any player expects.
Speed coupled with misperception is dangerous.
Radial Bats consistently perform as an optimal wood bat providing expected speeds—normal reaction times provide safety. Recently, a maple Radial Bat passed the BESR certification test which allows it to be used in all NCAA games.
Breaking Bats
Players and spectators are in danger when a wood bat breaks, its pieces flying off in any number of directions at high speeds. This is not a concern with Radial Bats.
In the rare occasion a Radial Bat does fail, it does so quietly with virtually the entire bat remaining in the hitter’s hands. The barrel will never shatter, nor separate from the handle of a Radial Bat. Any failure would be limited to a small chip flying away from one wedge. In such an event, the chip will decelerate and fall harmlessly to the ground before reaching any players or spectators.
A Radial Bat is as safe as a bat can be.
Confidence
A batter is best able to see and respond to the flight of a pitch when confident, relaxed, and focused. Evading an errant or inside pitch is only possible if the batter sees the flight of the ball well.
A Radial Bat eliminates concerns about a bat breaking or hands being intensely stung by vibration. All of the batter’s focus is directed at seeing the pitch and reacting with perfect timing to its arrival.
