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5 Shocking Ways Your Old Batting Tee Could Be Ruining Your Swing (and How the Attack Tee Fixes Them)

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Quick take: If your hitter is still using a wobbly, fixed-angle old-style tee, you’re training the wrong swing for most of the strike zone and wasting reps. Here’s the truth nobody told you—and the fast fix serious baseball & softball parents are switching to.

The Fastest Way to Hurt a Good Swing: Use the Wrong Tee

Old school tees were built for “a swing,” not the right swing for each pitch hitter’s face. Real games aren’t one angle, one height, one contact point. 

But that’s exactly what most tees force—so kids compensate, groove bad patterns, and stall out on their development.

The Attack Tee is different. It doesn’t guess. 

It tilts angles to match proper bat paths, it guides exactly where your barrel should go, it never tips over, it grows from 6U to college in height adjustability. 

And it tells you exactly where to place the tee for different points of contact (using MLB-informed angles from a decade of Statcast data).

If you’re serious about turning easy-outs into line-drive machines, read this now.

1. Old Tees Train the Wrong Swing for Most of the Strike Zone

Old Tee Problem: Fixed heads force one swing plane—fine for one pitch, wrong for almost everything else. High vs. low, inside vs. away, out-front vs. deep all change the ideal bat path’s attack angle. 

Your kid “learns” a swing that will struggle to survive elite live pitching–especially at the higher levels–with these tees first designed in the 1930’s.

Attack Tee Fix: Unlimited Angle Adjustment. The head tilts in dozens of precise increments, so hitters match the correct bat path for any pitch location they’ll face. 

Instead of training a one-size-fits-nobody swing, your hitter learns the game-ready movement patterns that actually play.

Result: More barrels. Fewer pop-ups and rollovers. Consistent, dangerous contact.

2. “Stand Here, Swing There” Doesn’t Teach Correct Body Positions and Posture

Old Tee Problem: Static tees offer no physical cue to help the body find better and more efficient swing positions. Kids end up “coaching themselves” and guessing at mechanics—usually wrong.

Attack Tee Fix: Tee Mouth Design That Coaches for You. The unique ball-holding design and its angled swing planes organically force better body positions—no biomechanics degree required. 

Hitters learn to get on-plane early, stay there longer, and do damage anywhere in the zone just by using it.

Result: The tee becomes a built-in coach. Fewer compensations. Cleaner, repeatable movement.

Results

“He’s finally on-plane early—more barrels in a week than all last month.” 

★★★★★

Kelly S., 12U parent


3. No Inside/Outside Guidance = Slop Swings

Old Tee Problem: Most tees go up/down—that’s it. They don’t teach directional hitting for inside vs. outside pitches. The result: hitters guess, cheat, or cast their hands.

Attack Tee Fix: Directional Hitting (Left/Right Pivot). The tee’s mouth pivots left/right to create a physical guide rail and visual cue for directional bat paths on inside and outside corner pitches. 

Your hitter finally feels how to get the barrel in the right lane—and keep it there.

Result: Turning on inside heaters and real oppo-gap drives—without “arm-swinging.”

5. Tip-Overs Destroy Rhythm…

Old Tee Problem: Light bases wobble and fall—especially the 4–12 lb “portable” tees. Resetting fallen tees eats 10 minutes per hour of training and builds sloppy, fear-based swings to avoid hitting the stem.

Attack Tee Fix: 17.2-lb Never-Tip Iron Base. The heaviest, most stable tee in the game. Tested with ages 8–21. No wobble. No resetting. The base and stem are heavy-duty iron for elite durability.

Result: More quality reps per minute. Better rhythm. More confidence. No sandbags, no weight plates needed, no nonsense.

Results

“No more resets. We get 2× the reps in the same time.”

★★★★★

— Coach A. Delgado


6. Kids Outgrow Most Tees…

Old Tee Problem: Weak height ranges mean you can’t train the full zone—or you buy a new tee every growth spurt.

Attack Tee Fix: 19–49” Elite Height Range. The largest adjustability in all of baseball & softball. Grows with players from age 6 through high school, college, and beyond. 

Train knee-high breakers to letter-high heaters on one tee. It’s your forever tee.

Result: One tee. Every zone. All the way through their career.

6. Guesswork = Wasted Reps. Guidance = Game-Ready Reps.

Old Tee Problem: “Random tee work” teaches nothing specific—wrong tee placements and contact points, wrong bat path angles, wrong habits.

Attack Tee Fix: FREE iOS App Smart Guidance 

Choose righty/lefty, tap a pitch location, and the app shows exact tee placement relative to home plate (best contact point) and displays MLB-informed bat-path angles for that location (from a decade of pro data).

Press Start Session to track training time; a national leaderboard boosts motivation.

Optional AI Coach: $9.99/month for 24/7 mental performance & approach (visualizations, routines, plans). All other app features are FREE.

Result: Targeted, game-specific training—no expert on hand required.

The Hidden Crisis (Cost Calc)

Most parents start with a $40 bargain tee from the local sporting goods store.

Within months, the plastic stem snaps off, the height adjustment fails, or the lightweight base becomes so frustrating with how much it fails over after every other swing that they buy another “slightly better” $60 model.

This cycle repeats every season, sometimes multiple times per year.

Let’s Do The Math:


Initial Cheap Tee:

$40

Replacement #1
(4 months Later)

$60

Replacement #2
(Next Season):

$80

Replacement #3 
(Frustration Upgrade)

$100

Replacement #4 
(Another “Better” Model)

$120

Weight Plates or Sandbags to Keep Upright

$50

Don't Forget Replacement Parts

Tanner Tees and many other old-style models have “Flextop” replacement costs of $34-50 (plus shipping and handling) each time—and you can’t just replace the rubber top alone, which usually cracks or unravels first.

They make you replace the entire stem-and-rubber-topper unit as a whole.

But all this is just the beginning of the real costs.

The Time Traditional Tees Are Stealing From Your Ballplayer

Tip-Overs + Resets

~10 minutes of lost training time per hour.

3 Practices/Week × 30 Weeks × 6 Years

900+ minutes of ballplayer development gone.

The Real Cost: Bad Habits

Hitters making mechanical compensations that are taught by flimsy, fixed-angle tees can later demand $7,200–$18,000 in private lessons over six travel-ball seasons (average rates, 1×/week).

The price of low confidence at the plate is harder to measure.

Truth: Quality gear is way cheaper than correcting bad habits.

Why Material Matters (and Why This Tee Doesn’t Die)

Most tees use cheap plastics and hollow tubes. The Attack Tee is iron-built where it counts. Connection points are reinforced. The top is engineered to absorb repeated contact without splitting.

This isn’t “buy it twice” gear—it’s the tee you hand down.

Who’s The Attack Tee For?

Serious baseball/softball parents who are done buying outdated, flimsy tees that teach flimsy swings.

Travel ball & varsity hitters chasing a real, repeatable bat path.

Coaches & facilities who need stability, durability, and a tool that actually teaches.

“Tee Graveyard” (Founders’ Experience)

“I’ve bought every tee on the market. Every year, I dump a giant box of cracked stems and wobbly bases—my staff calls it the ‘tee graveyard.’ We engineered a tee that doesn’t tip, doesn’t quit, and actually teaches the right swing.”

— Mike Rogers, 18-year batting-facility owner & Attackletics Co-Founder

Zero-Risk Guarantee

Try the Attack Tee for 365 days. Put it through thousands of swings. If it doesn’t deliver more barrels, cleaner mechanics, and better sessions, we’ll make it right. No stress. No “tee graveyard.”

Ready to Replace Guesswork with Game-Ready Swings?

Tap below to get the Attack Tee now and turn tee work into line-drive practice that transfers.

(Limited inventory for fall training & holiday gifting 🎁)

FAQ

Q: Baseball and softball?

Yes. Every Attack Tee comes with a baseball and softball size rubber ball holder setup. Switching sports takes seconds.

Q: Do I need to understand attack angle?

No. The app shows exact placement and MLB-informed bat angles per location. Your hitter just matches the green on the app and their swing to tee mouth’s natural guidance.

Q: Will it tip with my 14-year-old’s swing?

No. The 17.2-lb iron base is built to stay put on aggressive hacks (tested ages 8–21).

Q: Is the Attack Tee app required?

No—but it’s 100% free and it turns “random tee work” into targeted, game-specific reps. The paid AI coach aspect of the is also optional ($9.99/mo).

Location

2499 E Willow St, Signal Hill, CA 90755

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