View Single Post
  #9 (permalink)  
Old Sat Dec 24, 2005, 10:48am
scottk_61 scottk_61 is offline
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 573
Quote:
Originally posted by SRW
Quote:
Originally posted by SC Ump
I use and love: http://www.honigs.com/detail.asp?Cat=2&Sub=58&Item=363

I really have not tried anything else.
What level do you typically work with this one? I have it, and got smacked too many times where it wasn't... finally went to one that covered more of my chest. Taking a 50mph softball in the lower ribcage hurts like a son-of-a-gun. I only wear my H2 now for 14U and lower.
I have used the K2 for everything from the Men to 10U ball.
I find that the higher level of ball means I am less likely to get hit than at the lower levels. I can honestly say that at the 18U Gold, I could have worked the whole tournament without a protector, same goes for the Mens Masters that I worked a year or two ago.

I will say that in one game, I was doing some ISF stuff and the Canadian team was trying to work a new catcher, I got hit in the same exact place 4 times in a row.
It took over a month for that bruise to go away.
The pitcher was good, she was hitting her mark, the catcher just wasn't really a catcher.

The K2 is great but when you have catchers who don't know what they are doing, then you might get beat up.
__________________
ISF
ASA/USA Elite
NIF
Reply With Quote