![]() Others have been documented surviving up to 41 years in the wild-nearly 10 times as long as mammals of their size are generally expected to live-all the while avoiding cancer and fertility dips. Some nectar-devouring species spend years spiking their blood-sugar levels high enough to send a human into a hyperglycemic coma-and yet, those bats never seem to develop what we’d call diabetes. The creatures’ apparent ability to defy death goes even beyond that. “They’ve evolved mechanisms to limit the damage of disease,” says Emma Teeling, a bat biologist at University College Dublin, who collaborates with Wang. Ebola, Nipah, Marburg, and various coronaviruses don’t appear to trouble them some bats can survive encounters with rabies, which, left untreated in humans, has a near 100 percent fatality rate. But bats themselves rarely, if ever, seem to fall ill. In the past three decades-from 1994, when Hendra virus jumped to humans, to 2019, when SARS-CoV-2 emerged-at least half a dozen of the most devastating viral epidemics known to have recently leapt into people from wildlife have had their likeliest origins in bats. That thought might be tough to square with bats’ recent track record. They might not look it, but bats, Wang said, are “the healthiest mammals on Earth.” The point is “not to live like a bat,” Wang told me, but to take inspiration from their very weird physiology in order to boost the quality, or even the length, of human life. Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no illusions about people flapping about the skies or echolocating to find the best burger in town. Rumor is the DeMarini Black Zen will be only a paint job change, not a new bat.In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like. Rumors are starting to surface about a new color of this bat called the 2019 DeMarini CF Zen Black. As our 2019 CF Zen got used more we were able to feel the difference and improvement over the previous CF Zen. Initially, we couldn’t really tell a difference in pop off the barrel with our broken in 2018 vs the fresh out of the wrapper 2019 CF Zen, but what we absolutely did notice was how much larger the sweet spot and barrel profile is, and the advantages it offers the hitter. The gun metal gray matched to the red looks stunning in person and on the field. DeMarini is a company that really listens to players and closely follows current trends when it comes to styling. This really helps keep your hand and palm comfortable during batting practice. Along with the smooth, rounded shape DeMarini gives the knob. The 3-Fusion connector that holds the barrel and the handle together and dampens and vibration is another important part of the CF Zen. The Paraflex Plus composite is made using a specific temperature and time during the composite lay up process that is supposed to give the barrel even more “response” (which we think means “pop”, which means performance). They hit the ball with the same pop, but the barrel length is much larger on the 2019 vs the 2018 (picture above are both 30″/20oz with the 2019 on left vs 2018 on right). Previous models were simply using the “Paraflex composite”. Marketing Buzzwords and Massive BarrelĢ019 DeMarini CF Zen gets what they are calling the Paraflex Plus composite. Don’t worry, though, the barrel sizes on the USSSA CF Zen bats are much larger than their USA Bat counterparts. Note, however, the barrel size is noticeably smaller on the -10 ounce compared to the others. NOTE: There is a newer version of this bat called the CF ZEN BlackĭeMarini knows baseball players come in different sizes and strengths, so the 2019 CF Zen comes in three different options: -10 ounce (most common), -8 ounce (stronger kids), and a -5 ounce (stronger or about to enter high school using BBCOR Bats). With the 2019 DeMarini CF Zen big barrel bat line getting ready to hit the field, we figured you might want to know a little bit about the latest generation of travel ball bats from DeMarini. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 2017 CF Zen was one of the all time best travel ball bats ever made. The DeMarini CF Zen line of bats has been around for a long time. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |