Our Super 8 Hitting System Readerboard has been very powerful and effective among our players and coaches. The Readerboard outlines for us the strike zone, and we put numbers on our strike zone (1-9) representing each part of the zone.

The board itself comes in an all-weather plastic board, and we put baseballs on the board as windows within the frame so you can identify each part of the strike zone (low and inside, high and outside, etc.). The primary purpose of the readerboard is to help hitters see the ball better to make better contact.

Often times, hitters tell us the all the time – “Coach, I’m just not seeing the ball”. Not only will the hitting board help you see the ball better, but it will help you line up the barrel of the bat according to where the ball is pitched in the strike zone.

When hitters take batting practice, they often just work on hitting the ball down the middle of the plate. What they don’t work on, is the low and outside, high and outside, up and in, etc. The board will help you make those adjustments and practice on hitting good pitches. We don’t want to hit the ball with a level stroke… we want to match the “cut lines” on the baseball with the barrel of the bat to make the best contact.

We have “bullseyes” on each ball to help the hitter focus on hitting the baseball with solid contact. If you were throwing darts at a dart board, you would be focusing on the bullseye. Same thing applies with the baseball readerboard.

Coach Joe Brockhoff designed the Super 8 Readerboard to help hitters make better contact and hit with more consistency. You can purchase the readerboard here.