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Works on both the offensive and defensive aspects of your game with the Catapult. Use regulation baseballs for soft toss or to practice footwork and glove-hand ball transfer. Or use 9" plastic balls for pop fly practice. The unit adjusts for height and distance and serves balls every 8 seconds.
From the Manufacturer
SKLZ Catapult Soft Toss Pitch Machine and Fielding Trainer
Use the Catapult Soft Toss Pitching Machine to 2ork on both the offensive and defensive aspects of your game. Use regulation baseballs for soft toss or to practice footwork and glove-hand ball transfer. Or use 9" plastic balls for pop fly practice. The unit adjusts for height and distance and serves balls every 8 seconds.
Features
- Spiral ball funnel holds up to 8 regulation size baseballs
- Automatically tosses balls every 8 seconds
- Adjustable height and distance
- Use with AC Adaptor or 4 D Batteries (not included)
Catapult Usage
1) Add baseballs to machine
Prior to starting the machine add up to 8 balls to the Spiral Ball Funnel.
2) Adjust ball flight angle
Before adjusting the ball flight angle turn the Catapult off. Loosen the trajectory lever knob at the frontof the machine. Adjust leg up or down to adjust the ball flight angle. Tighten trajectory lever knob. Stabilize Catapult by adjusting the rear
stability bar. Unscrew knobs on both sides of the bar and adjust height so that the bar rests on the ground. Secure into place by tightening each knob.
3) Adjust ball throwing distance
Using the adjustable distance knob, tighten to increase ball throwing distance, loosen slowly to decrease ball throwing distance.
4) Power up machine
The Catapult runs on 4 D Batteries (not included) or with the provided AC Adapter. If using the AC Adapter, connect to the side of Catapult Base below the power switch. If using batteries flip the Catapult over. Press down on the black tab and slide the
battery cover off. Install batteries as shown. Turn product ON to power up and OFF to power down. Ensure all persons and pets are clear of the Catapult and the path of the ball before powering on.
About SKLZ
SKLZ is committed to elevating the athlete in each of us by guiding and serving athletes on their journeys to be their personal best. As the flagship brand of Pro Performance Sports, based in San Diego California, SKLZ develops innovative athletic performance and skill development training products, technology and knowledge for serious athletes of all ages, skill levels and sports including baseball, football, soccer, golf, softball and basketball. SKLZ is known around the world for delivering durable, high-performance training products used by professional and amateur athletes as well as their coaches and trainers seeking to improve on a sport-specific skill or a performance-focused goal such as speed, agility, balance or core strength.
David
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024
Outstanding product, and the best for multiple uses: I lay it flat for soft-toss with baseball in the cage. It is fantastic.I then tilt it slightly forward for use with wiffle balls with the spring fully tightened.They last about a year with VERY heavy use, and I am now on my third.PRO-TIPS:1. put bricks underneath the legs and bricks on top of the legs to hold it in place to shoot a faster wiffle ball pitch2. Use Skilz black and yellow baseballs to create a faster pitch3. buy a Christmas light extension cord with a foot switch to allow for solo batting practice. The pitches go to 24 feet, and you can elevate the machine to get a couple more feet out of that.4. If you want an even faster pitch you can insert a screw-driver into the mechanism and push the spring back even further (securing it there is a trick) to make the force even greater - this will likely put more strain on the motor.5. use the ball holders from your old machine or purchase another for $30 to make it an awesome 15-pitch pitching machine. Bringing it up to 22 still works, but you need a stick to support the weight when you lean if forward.SUGGESTIONS FOR SKLZ: please, please make a softball version of this for use with the SKLZ impact limited flight, black-and-yellow softballs.Try including three impact baseballs with this product to demonstrate a possible use and increase sales of your balls.There needs to be an ability to tilt the machine forward more, and this requires being able to tilt the ball holder back to give clearance for the pitches.A version on a tripod for added weight would be great for hitting practice.A plastic cage sold separately to go around the front of the product would possibly help for baseball soft-toss.This is such an awesome product at a reasonable price, I do not see why you don't make more variations on this.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2024
Its fun but definitely not high Quality by any means
Russell S.
Reviewed in Canada on August 14, 2023
Kids love it. Works great.
Anthony J
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2023
Well, its an affordable tossing machine for practice by yourself. The tosses are not the most accurate, but usually pretty close. And it doesn't toss very high. Putting the unit on a small table helps quite a bit.Good things are that it can use regular baseballs, it runs on D batteries, lightweight. Portable.Its good enough to work on your swing, you could also do some slow moving fielding from it.I hope it lasts a few years.Be careful adjusting the height screw. If you go too far it releases the tension from the spring and its a pain to get it back on.
BoneCrusher
Reviewed in Mexico on December 23, 2022
Funciono por mas de 1 semana, luego el motor dejo de funcionar, casi toda la maquina es de plastico, no la recomendaria.
Checo
Reviewed in Mexico on October 27, 2021
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Reviewed in Mexico on January 25, 2017
Funciona según las especificaciones señaladas, es muy practica debido a que se puede usar con baterías o conectada directamente al toma corriente
S.D.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016
First and foremost, you have to accept that this is NOT a pitching machine. It's a "soft toss machine". Its purpose is to lob a baseball up into the air just high enough that you can hit it with your bat or catch it and throw to someone else. Once you accept it as such, it does that job quite well. We use ours with batteries (an AC adapter is provided, should you have power nearby) and the trajectory does not change when the batteries run low -- there is just a longer break between pitches.I found two drawbacks of the machine. #1 is that it only holds 8 (or so) baseballs, so someone needs to be on hand to keep it loaded. That's not much of a problem because of #2. #2 is that the machine uses gravity to keep the balls ready to load into the "tossing ring". The baseballs sometimes get stuck and don't load properly. This also means someone has to be on hand to keep things moving.The biggest benefits are #1 cost, and #2 the use of real baseballs. You don't have to buy special baseballs for the machine. I picked up a bucket of baseballs and softballs on craigslist, and away we went. In case you wonder, no, the softballs don't fit. Too bad.This has proved to be a ton of fun with the kids (which is safer than pitching for Daddy AND the kids). Just be sure to wear batting gloves or you'll get blisters from all the batting you can do.
TK
Reviewed in Canada on August 13, 2015
Nice machine so far. Put softies in for the 3, 5 and 8 year old's to hit and works well with those. have not tried to adjust for wiffle balls but they seem to enjoy this and together with a net and the hurricane batting trainer works great for stations in the backyard
Katie Henderson
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014
beware of this... it is not worth the money. there is a reason it is so much cheaper than other similar items- its poor quality and doesn't work properly. i am a coach and i bought this to help my son train while i am away coaching and unable to work with him. however the machine is such junk it is not able to function in the way they advertise it to.the ball feed malfunctions every time. 1st ball catapults out fine, but every time the second ball feeds into the machine the stop doesn't re-engage and 1-3 more balls fall into the machine causing a 2-3 balls to fly out in various directions. In addition, the net that is marketed with this product also does not work the way it is described. Save your money and spend it on private lessons or on better quality equipment. Remember you get what you pay for!
Todd R. Adams
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2014
This is a great little unit for the price. Not made to last the test of time, but should make it through a season or two. Entirely made of plastic, (including the internal parts and mechanisms,) so eventually one of these pieces will break and it will need to be trashed. The unit needs to be plugged in, but does have a battery section to receive a battery(s) (NOT INCLUDED) for portable use. No idea how long the unit will last with batteries...yet.I've had the unit for almost a month and my son has been hitting 100 balls per session every day...so it is holding up well with the use.All in all, this is a good $50 soft toss machine that will serve any level of player for at least a season or two.
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