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Nemo's Speed Bat Training System Goes Full Swing
By Paul Laak of the Newport, Oregon News Times
It just about one year's time, Nemo Tessicini's Speed Bat Training System has gone from a whiff of an idea to a home run phenomenon that could literally change the game of baseball, or if not, then at least how the on-deck circle looks.
For as long as anyone can remember, batters would walk into the on-deck circle over-weighted with three bats or carrying a bat with a weighted doughnut on the shaft. The simple logic was always this-carry something heavy and when you drop the weight, the light bat seems easier to swing.
Then Tessicini, a former baseball coach at Taft High School, went 180 on the logic bandwagon and realized that batters needed to increase bat speed to be more competitive against faster balls and wild breaking pitches, not just more powerful. He developed the Speed Bat Training Program, which included a specifically designed, lightweight bat and a training program that focused on increasing bat speed. And it worked, with scientifically proven increases of up to almost 5 miles-per-hour faster bat swings.
The original story about Nemo's Speed Bat Training System first ran in the Sports New about one year ago. Since then, articles have appeared in the Statesman Journal, Oregon Business Magazine, Collegiate Baseball, and Prep Illustrated, (the No. 1 high school magazine in the nation). Just last month came perhaps the biggest accolade as the B & N baseball/softball web site (www.bandnsoftball.com) gave Nemo's Speed Bat the 2000 Product of the Year award.
The B & N web site was started by two avid softball players, Mark McDowell, Ph.D. and Ron Noebe, Ph.D. who are scientists by profession. McDowell holds a Ph.D in computer engineering, specializing in applied physics and invented a technology called stereo imaging velocimetry that has been adapted to investigate the bat-ball impact phenomena. Noebe holds a Ph.D. in materials science and is an expert in the analysis of materials used in the sports of softball and baseball. So, they know their stuff.
The bats and the training video have been carried in the Willamette Valley by Anderson's Sporting Goods. Nemo's program has also been effectively used by the Salem Mustangs 14 ASA softball team as they took third in the 48 team nationals, plus many other ASA teams and even the Willamette University baseball team.
It gives you the opportunity to hit pitchers who were over-powering and you couldn't hit before, said Tessicini. You can wait and see the ball longer and make a better choice and still have the speed to hit the ball.
For more information about Nemo's Speed Bat and Training System, to order the bat, training video, or to set up lessons, contact Nemo Tessicini at (541) 764-3313 or check out the Speed Bat website at www.speedbat.com. The Speed Bat costs $39.95 and the training video costs $34.95.
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