How to tape a wood bat?
Depending on what kind of grip you want, the answer varies. For a bat with a nice grip… 1. Pull yourself a piece of tape about 1.5 feet but don’t tear it from the roll. 2. Twist it a couple times so that the tape looks like a thick shoelace. 3. Start wrapping at the bottom of the bat and go once around the beginning of the knob of the bat (at the bottom) 4. As you make your way up the bat, rap the twisted tape diagonally around the bat so it looks like those poles with red stripes you see at barber shops. 5. Keep wrapping the tape up the bat so that the twisted tape creates parallel lines up to the point where you want to stop. 6. At the point you want to stop, go once around the stopping point so that your diagonal lines stop. 7. Then go back down the bat with the twisted tape the same way you came up, but the opposite direction. Keep your lines going back down the bat parallel to each other, but crossing the previous lines at the exact same spot all the way down to the bottom. 8. R
