Easton Junior Playback Elite
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Description of Easton Junior Playback Elite
With a patented adjustable hinge for multiple training options, the Easton® Junior Playback Elite Trainer is ideal for ground balls, line drives, and pop flies. The trainer also includes a heavy-duty weatherized netting for ultimate playback response and durable elastic net attachment bands. Measuring 38-in x 58-in, the trainer boasts a speedy assembly, with no tools required!Take your game to the next level with the Easton Jr. Playback Elite baseball trainer. Equipped with a patented adjustable hinge, the Jr. Playback Elite offers multiple training options: ground balls, line drives, and even pop flies. Just adjust the net to the proper angle, throw the ball at the net, and ready yourself to catch the simulated hit. The Jr. Playback Elite is built to last, with heavy-duty weatherized netting delivering and durable S-hook attachment bands. And it takes virtually no time at all to set up the net, so you can use it pretty much anywhere--from your backyard to the park. The Jr. Playback Elite measures 38 inches wide by 58 inches tall.
About Easton
In 1922, Doug Easton began crafting custom wood bows and cedar arrows in Watsonville, California. Although Doug produced tournament-grade, footed cedar arrows for the archery champions of that era, he was constantly frustrated with the inconsistency and lack of uniformity of wood shafts. Convinced that consistently straight uniform arrow shafts were impossible to manufacture from wood, Doug turned his attentions to aluminum. In 1939, he began manufacturing aluminum arrows in Los Angeles. His instincts about this material were correct, and in 1941, California archer Larry Hughes won the national championship with a set of Doug's aluminum arrows. This was the beginning of a trend that would change traditional archery and transcend into numerous other sports arenas over the next 50 years.
Today, Jas. D. Easton, Inc. is a privately owned manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of sporting equipment, headquartered in Van Nuys, California. It currently employs more than 1,000 people worldwide in various distribution, manufacturing, sales and marketing capacities. Other operations are located in Salt Lake City, Utah, Mexico, and Canada. Easton is considered one of the world's preeminent innovators, designers, and manufacturers of sporting equipment. Much of this success is due to Easton's corporate strategy centered around producing products for the highest level of performance. Throughout its history, Easton has not only grown from within, but through the selective acquisition of other technology-based sporting goods companies.
Sports reviews of Easton Junior Playback Elite
Customer Review: Happy with it
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
The Junior Playback Elite does its job well. It feels like a quality backstop that will last for a long time. It folds to store easily and the netting doesn't become detached when it is folded and unfolded. The only thing I didn't like about it was attaching all of the pieces that hold the net to the frame. That took about 45 minutes, but I had read other reviews saying the same thing so I wasn't surprised.Customer Review: durable
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I bought it for my son but I play with it more than he does. It's easy to assemble and can be left out year round. Ours has been outside for 2 years and has survived 100 degree summers and being completely covered with snow.Customer Review: Not what it is set up to be.
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
It seems simple to assembly and in fact for the most part it is simple. The velcro ties and the net itself provide minor difficulty but nothing excessive. Stretching the net in order to attach the velcro can be a pain.
The velcro ties come off easily when a ball is thrown hard enough into the net. This has happened on three instances. The velcro at first came off just from the stress of being attached to the net.
Setting the angle is annoying and takes a little time. Somehow if you get it right the playback is twisted anyway and you must take time to re-adjust everything.
As for long term use, I can forsee this not holding up to a child throwing hard into the object on a continual basis.
Customer Review: Easton Playback
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
I bought the Easton Junior Playback for my son as he does not have any boys that live by him to play with. He says he likes the way it will throw back both ground balls and fly balls. We tied it to a teleplhone pole and a metal fence post. This keeps it where it belongs. Easton sends 5 extra straps which was a good thing as we needed them at certain spots that keep loosing straps. It seems to be holding up well but you do need to consider how hard the ball is thrown at it. I don't think it would work very good for high school age kids. He has had a lot of fun with it.
Much better made than what the local stores sell.
Customer Review: Not the best
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
This is ok, but the elastic bands that keep it taught kept popping off. We had to buy new plastic tabs to replace some of them. Now it seems to be ok.
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