Baseball Training: Fact Check on an Incredible Video

Fantastic! He really seems to have it in him. He hits the ball onto a pitchback net, which in turn reflects the ball exactly onto another one.

To be precise, at the end there are four pitchback nets that the ball passes through before it is reflected back exactly at the batter, i.e. the baseball player who hits the ball.

He then hits the rebounding ball and - oh wonder - the whole thing happens a second time. Again the ball flies towards the supposedly ideally aligned pitchback nets.

Are we dealing with perfect baseball training here or has someone helped? Here is the corresponding video, which we will do a quick fact check on:

Fact Check: Baseball Training

There are good reasons to question this video. For example, the ball hits the net in the same place every time and its speed does not decrease. He would be a perpetual motion ball somehow.

But even the best baseball players probably aren't that good, because in the end it turns out that this video was largely animated. The video was animated by Joel Fox, who describes himself on Instagram as “Director/Video Magician for Disney, Nickelodeon, Yo Gabba Gabba, The Aquabats, people of the world, animals, etc.”

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On his website he writes about this video that he and Ross Harris created three incredible videos for Easton Sports in 2011. This is one of them.

At first they were actually standing on a baseball field. They threw the ball into each pitchback net from its previous source and then adjusted the trajectory and placement so that they were actually in the correct position as you see in the video.

But after that it was edited. The flight duration was calculated so that a certain rhythm was created in which the ball would come back again. This then determined when he had to make his “phantom shots” in the video, into which the ball was calculated.

More about the perfect baseball training video HERE . And if you still want to see a nice animated story, you can read this article .