Victus Bats Axe Handle Review | The MLB Gets Wood Grip Crazy

Over a year ago we reviewed the Axe Handle bat lineup and were thoroughly impressed. Within that year, Axe Bats made an agreement with Victus Bats and designed the first MLB prototype of the bat.

The Victus bat is a traditional Maple Hard wood bat with an ink dot test made for elite players in the wood baseball bat space. More significantly, the bat's handle is shaped like the bat handle on an axe. We have previously reviewed the functions of a bat from Axe Bats, but as a refresher:

• An axe shaped bat handle allows you to:
  • Get to the ball quicker. Studies have shown, really, that a handle with an asymmetric shape allow your wrists to more naturally drive to the front of your body. When your hands are more easily drawn towards the baseball, bat speed naturally increases. As a result, an axe shaped handle gives you the ability to get to the ball quicker.
  • Hit on the right side of the barrel. Since an axe shaped handle forces your hands onto the bat in a certain way, it guarantees contact on the bat happens on the same side of the barrel. From an engineering standpoint this is great news. If you know where contact will always be made you can force the best part of the barrel directly to the ball at contact. In a wood bat in particular, this not only gives you greater density by hitting directly on the face grain, but also increased durability.
  • Decrease hand sting. It could be argued, the asymmetric handle does for the bottom hand what a ProHitter does for the top hand. That is, a bat handle that conforms to the shape of your hands more fully is better capable of distributing hand sting throughout the entire palm and giving you better grip on the bat. As a result, the bottom hand shaped more according to how your hand wants to be shaped during a swing doesn't have as much hand sting as a traditional knob. Less hand sting means more confidence, harder swings and less injury.