The strike zone has 3 dimensions - work them all
The strike zone is not a two dimensional window in front of home plate. It’s 3-D with width and height AND depth. So why practice throwing at a rectangular hole in a backstop when the strike zone is so much more? If you have command over your pitches, then you can probably make them move up and down and from side to side. How great would it be if you could throw strikes at the top and sides of the zone in training - to learn the control you need for the game.
The 3DKZONE helps you visualize and work your pitches to every part of the strike zone.
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Watch the 3DKZONE absorb an
88 mph pitch and recover
(Quicktime movie clip)


Here's what it feels like, and sounds
like, to throw to the 3DKZONE
(Quicktime movie clip)
A serious target for serious training.
The 3DKZONE is not a gimmick or a novelty. It's in use now for high-end training with pitchers of all ages up to adult pros. One academy with three units runs 1.5 hr sessions with an average of 10 pitchers in each session for over 38 hrs a week - 6 hrs every night and on weekends. Year-round 18U teams and select prospect teams are using it. Pitching instructors who are also signed to pro contracts use it for their own off-season work and pre-Spring tune-ups. It's also used by university girls' fastpitch hurlers who pound it with 9 oz softballs from 46 feet away. In fact, the product pictures you see here are of an in-use 3DKZONE target after two solid months of the best torture-testing there is - pitchers serious about their game.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Sculpted high-density foam core to withstand direct impact
- 18 oz multi-colored vinyl case (rated for use indoors or out in baseball weather (i.e. above 45 degrees F)
- Frame of 2" square angle iron, cut, welded and black powder coated for durability
- Target is 17" wide, 24" high, adjustable to 5 height positions in 2" increments (low edge at 12-20, top edge at 36-44)
Click image below for graphic pitch overlay on the actual 3DKZONE.

Click images below for close ups from different angles
