ProGrip, Inc. is a company that I originally started to sell the batting grip I invented to teach athletes hands the proper way to hold a baseball bat. After moving to Southern California to pursue my own playing career, while giving lessons, I noticed how many of these baseball players were holding the bat improperly and how much they were HURTING their own swing. I had taught lessons since I was 17 but never so many at once doing between 25-35 a week and this problem was EVERYWHERE! At all age levels and players of all different ability levels, not playing up to their potential because of an impropriety in their swing they didn’t know they had, and didn’t know how to fix.

This is when I began thinking of how I could fix this problem. After a whole lot of tireless work ProGrip is here. So many young athletes all over the world enjoy playing the game of baseball and usually begin between the ages of 5-10. All of these future baseball players should be provided with the best possible experience and opportunity to not only see success, but to learn the many valuable life lessons that the game of baseball has to teach. Without proper instruction, especially in the sport specific training era we live in today, kids get left behind. Not because they do not have the potential or ability, but because without proper instruction they will not see the success they desire and most people won’t enjoy something when they feel they are not good at it. Baseball is a fundamental game with fundamental principles that can all be learned, no matter how talented a natural athlete you are. The bottom line is the harder you work, the more results you will see. Private baseball instruction and academies can get expensive and for many it’s just not an option. Due to the lack of instruction at the lower levels from little league all the way through high school, young athletes are not given the tools they need to succeed. They develop bad habits and in turn do not see success in baseball they desire, especially in the hitting department. When a young man comes to me for lessons at 14, 15 and 16 years old, it becomes my job to break these bad habits they have naturally picked up. If they have been doing the same thing wrong for the last 8-10 years of their baseball life, not only is it difficult to break these habits, it is uncomfortable because these simple actions such as holding the bat improperly are ingrained into their memory. Holding a baseball bat properly, although one small action, sets you up for either success or failure at the plate. If you think about it, holding the bat is your only actual connection to hitting the ball and how you hold the bat affects your swing tremendously. Many young baseball players when picking up the bat not only hold it too deep into their hands but they hold the bat way too tight as well. All of the strength, flexibility and dexterity in your hands lies in your fingers and ANYTIME a baseball instructor teaches a player how to hold the bat they tell them to lay it down in their fingers and then pick it up continuing to hold it in their fingers. Also, it is extremely important to hold the bat loosely. When holding the bat tight our muscles are contracted. For our fast twitch muscles to fire properly our muscles must be loose so you see how this prevents the hitter from swinging as fast as they can. I invite you to watch a boxing match or martial arts match. You will never see a boxer tense while fighting because his muscles must be loose to be quick and the quickness of the punch translates into power. The baseball swing is the same exact thing. Quickness equals power and you must be loose to be quick.