Sports Product Review

Several years ago, a boy on a Little League team I was coaching had his 12 year-old season end prematurely when he squared to bunt and took an inside pitch off the wrist. We knew by the way it swelled up that it was probably broken. When I called his parents that evening it was the worst news possible: Broken bone, in a cast for 4-6 weeks – out for the season.

I can say with 99% assurance, it wouldn’t have happened if he’d been wearing Hammr batting gloves, made by a fantastic up-and-coming company in the baseball world, XProTex, (www.xprotex.com).

The Hammr offers both wrist and hand protection for batters. They’re designed to help protect the small bones in the hand and in the wrist that are most vulnerable to injury from a pitched ball. The gloves boast Advanced Impact Composite (AIC) protection on the outside of the hand and wrist. AIC is a flexible, yet impact-absorbing intelligent material conceived through 30 months of development and testing.

XProTex sent us a pair to try out and you can tell just by touching the AIC protection that nothing that hits this is going to hurt. The XProTex website says that the impact load generated by a 100 MPH ball is reduced to the equivalent of being struck with a 40 MPH ball. And how many of us face 100 MPH fastballs? Even if you have never been hit on the wrist by a pitch, the self-assurance these gloves give hitters is phenomenal. I have seen my son attack more inside pitches because in the back of his mind he knows he has nothing to worry about. That additional confidence alone is worth the price of the gloves.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself? How about that pitch running up an in at the hands? Get yourself a pair of XProTex gloves and now, instead of bailing out, you can “Hammr” it.

Source: XProTex