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A Few Of Our Top Customers for the Hack Attack Softball Pitching Machine
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Why Buy A Sports Attack Softball Pitching Machine? |
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Exceptional Quality
- Machines are heavy enough to absorb recoil, ensuring
accuracy, yet portable and easily moved by one person.
- Tripod base insures real stability and safety on mounds or playing surfaces.
- High tensile, tough heat-treated alloy, weather-resistant
aluminum casting throwing head, protects throwing
mechanism.
- Rugged powder-coated rust-proof steel frame ensures
limitless seasons of use.
- The throwing wheels out-last all other pitching machine wheels
and don’t melt in direct summer heat. Sports Attack has Never replaced a wheel from wear or heat exposure.
- Three powerful variable speed motors drive three indestructible concave 13" throwing wheels. Almost instant recovery.
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Hack Attack Junior Softball Pitching Machine |
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Unique Features
- You can see the ball clearly all the way through the underhand feeding motion, acceleration and release, just like a live pitcher.
- The hitter sees when to stride and the angle of release,
giving him an actual live-arm sense of timing and location.
- With a quick turn of the dials you can effortlessly throw
fastballs, risers, drops, right and left handed screwballs up and into the hitters.
- The three-wheel design changes the breaking pitch plane
by simply adjusting wheel speed dials. (All two-wheel units
require time consuming awkward throwing head
adjustments to change from fastballs to curveballs or right
to left handed breaking pitches.)
- The elevation adjustment handle will raise or lower the
pitch. With a simple turn, you can even move the pitch
up or down within the strike zone between pitches.
(On two-wheel units it may be necessary to release a
locking mechanism, reposition the entire throwing
head by tilting it manually and then re-locking the
locking mechanism. These are awkward
time-consuming adjustments.)
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Hack Attack Professional Softball Pitching Machine
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The Hack Attack Softball Machine
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- Throwing head pivots instantly in any direction
for all fungo work including deep fly balls that
can drive fielders to the fence, slicing line drives,
catcher's pop-ups with reverse spin, towering
infield pop-ups, and grounders.
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Makes most efficient use of practice time with
limited throwing head adjustments needed and
an almost instant recovery time. More strikes
delivered at every practice!
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Both units quickly move on and off field, just tilt
it, unsocket legs and easily roll on two
transporting wheels.
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- The front wheel guards insure the throwing wheels never come in contact with the ground.
(Some machines are moved using throwing wheels, picking up dangerous dirt and gravel which
causes inaccuracy and wear.)
- Both machines are designed for use with regulation leather balls, dimpled practice balls,
Wiffle® balls and all softer practice balls. The Junior Hack Attack will also convert to throw a
7.5” undersized vision training ball.
- No assembly is required, both units arrive fully assembled and ready for your immediate use.
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The Three Wheel Advantage |
- Complete vision provides realistic sense of timing.
- Three wheel spin control for ease of operation,
requires no cumbersome adjustments of throwing
head when changing spins- just an adjustment
of wheel speed.
- Large wheel diameter provides throwing
efficiency and long life.
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Feature |
Three Wheel Hack Attack and Junior |
Two-wheel Machines |
One-wheel Machines |
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Complete
Provides a realistic sense of timing |
Poor |
Poor |
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Excellent
Natural |
Poor
Limited vision |
Poor
Limited vision |
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Excellent
Three point contact |
Good
Two point contact |
Fair
One point contact |
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All
Quick adjustment |
All
Awkward slow adjustments |
Unrealistic Spin |
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Excellent
Pivots instantly |
Good - Fair |
Poor |
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Excellent
Wheel guards protect operator |
Poor
Limited - no wheel guards |
Poor
Limited - no wheel guards |
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Excellent |
Good |
Good |
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Excellent
Three point contact |
Good
Two points of contact |
Poor
One point of contact |
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Exceptional
No cumbersome adjustments of throwing head |
Good - Poor
Must move throwing head to change pitch type |
Unrealistic
Excessive Spin |
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Excellent
Pin-point accuracy and less ball wear |
Good
Smaller wheels increase wear |
Poor
Requires pinch pad, heavy ball wear |
Throwing Head Size and weight
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Excellent
No recoil of any kind for any pitch |
Good - Poor
Lighter, some recoil |
Poor
Snubbing action causes recoil, requiring sandbags |
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Which Pitching Machine is right for your softball team? |
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Level of Play |
High School, College, Professional
and Commercial
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Youth league, backyard, machine-pitch
games, travel teams, drills at all levels,
including high school college and
professional
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Pitches |
Fastballs, risers, drops, right and left handed screwballs.
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Fungo |
Pivots instantly for pop-ups, fly
balls, grounders
250 ft. fly balls
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Weight |
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Transportability |
Fits into any SUV or full size car
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Fits into any compact car, including a
Mini Cooper
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Automatic Feeders |
Can use either Solo Feeder
(11 ball) or the Team Feeder
(75 ball)
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Power Supply |
110V - 2000W generator with
inverter technology (not included)
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Ball Types |
All types, including leather
(see accessories)
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Ball Sizes |
Can be converted to baseball using
conversion kit
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Can be converted to baseball using conversion kit and can also be converted to use the 7.5" vision training balls (see accessories for ball and kit details)
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Speed |
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Distance |
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Vision |
Underhand motion and complete ball vision provides a realistic sense of timing
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Accuracy |
The ball is gripped in three
locations, providing tremendous
control and accuracy
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Efficiency |
Dial-in pitch selection without
throwing head adjustments,
maximizes practice time
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Portability |
Easily rolls on and off field
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Recovery Time |
5 seconds, because of the three
wheels, it is almost instant
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Price |
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Features of the Hack Attack Professional Softball Pitching Machine |
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Features of the Junior Hack Attack Softball Pitching Machine |
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The Junior Hack Attack Softball Pitching Machine is the quality training tool designed to develop serious young players. It has all of the unique features of the Hack Attack Professional Softball Machine, including our patented three-wheel design that provides complete vision. In developing hitters, especially at younger ages, there is nothing more important than timing and vision.
At a level where simplicity is imperative, any change in pitch, from fastballs to any breaking pitch, is quickly dialed in using the three speed knobs. The new Junior Hack Attack Softball Machine is extremely portable and is the machine that will develop your dedicated players into the “pros” they want to be. |
The Junior Hack Attack fits easily into any small car
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Junior Hack Attack is the only pitching machine that will convert quickly to throw a special 7.5" diameter vision training ball. This critical size forces centering and tracking while maintaining proper hitting mechanics. (see accessories for ball details) |
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What the Coaches are saying: |
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“Our Hack Attack simulates the actual pitches we are about to face, especially the breaking pitches. We quickly set it up o match the pitcher we are going to go up against. For a pitching machine that is so durable, it is amazing how esy it is to operate and move. It is a real work horse.”
Diane Ninemire, Head Softball Coach, University of California, Berkley
2002 National Champions
“At our Softball academy here in Norcross, GA, both the Hack Attack and Junior Hack Attack are pitching constantly. They are equally accurate, while throwing curves, risers, drops and fastballs. No other machines come close in performance and reliability. We even rent them out! ”
Lou Llerandi, Berkley Baseball and Softball Academy
"The Hack Attack Machine has added a lot to our hitting routines. We have the ability to move the ball around the strike zone in a realistic way and adjust the pitches very easily. I feel that the biggest advantage to the Hack Attack is the improvements our team made last year in seeing the ball. We were able to hit pitchers that had a lot of movement because that is how we trained everyday. Overall it is the best pitching machine I have ever seen or used."
Emily Russell, Head Softball Coach, Lee University
"The Hack Attack has allowed our hitters to see just about every possible pitch, from screwballs to riseballs to dropballs and curves. Not only do the three wheels allow you better pitch selection, but setting each pitch selection is a cinch. It is a great challenge for our girls and they benefit from it greatly. We used the demo last year right before the playoffs, and we were able to make it into the elite eight! I liked it so much I bought one for this season!"
Mike Cavey, Head Softball Coach, North Gwinnett High School
"Ball visibility and the sense of timing is amazing with the new Softball Hack Attack. I am also impressed with its ability to throw all the breaking pitches including risers and screwballs so accurately. Moving it on and off of the field is easy. Fungo capabilities give it a whole new dimension over existing machines."
Kelly Ford, Head Softball Coach, Mount San Antonio College
"The Hack Attack is one of the easiest softball machines our program has had the privilege of using. It is easy to move, easy to set up, but not easy to hit; and that’s a good thing. This machine can pitch a large variety of pitches that are incredible challenging to hit or easy to hit, it depends on your program’s needs and stage of development. It pitches rise balls, drops, curves, and many more all via the adjustment of dials. No rotation of wheels is needed, no strenuous and time consuming changing needs to occur. Our players love this pitching machine, and we use it daily. "
Penny Sigueiros, Head Softball Coach, Emory College |
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