SKLZQuickster Portable Baseball Hitting Net for Baseball and Softball

Good quality - easy to put together.

I'll tell you why I purchased this one. All the components are attached to each other so you can't lose a part. You need to put the 2 poles on the base and attach the net. All of them collapse/fold on themselves making it easy to assemble quickly. I took it to a softball practice where there was another type of net there. Both of them required you to get the pieces and put them together first, then run the poles through the net. Well, as I put mine together, one of the coaches was putting the other one together. After I finished mine, I helped him with his. Couldn't put it up...because he was missing the top part of one of the poles rendering it useless. According to him, it was there the day before, but not today. That's a major plus going for the SKLZ one.I purchased the 7'X7' one because I intend on using it for soccer in the fall. Currently I am using it for girls (U8) softball. They have fun trying to hit the net when I set it up at first base. Also, the added pitching target is a plus. It just attaches to the net with hook and you can adjust it up and down. The only thing I have added was some velcro wraps that I use to keep the net attached to the horizontal bar on the ground (so the net doesn't bunch up towards the front).Had an issue with the bottom frame. Contacted SKLZ and the sent out a replacement right away. Couldn't be happier. It's lightweight, portable, and just simple to use. All coaches for soccer, football, baseball, softball, etc. should have one. And it's affordable to boot!

I bought this net in April 2013 for the use of our son, who was then ten and who is now eleven. We use it for hitting balls of a tee and as a first-base target for infield drills. The net does a great job of catching the balls softly and retaining them in the net, The net has plenty of slack, which allows the ball to be caught and slowed down gradually. Outside on windy days we have needed to use the included stakes, but usually the stakes are not needed.The strike zone target is nice. To simplify setup, I used some chain link connectors to fasten the straps of the strike-zone net to the corners of the main net, so that for setup I need only attach the four corners of the main net to the poles.The net is now set up in our basement as a winter indoor hitting practice station. Both my son and I have been using it and it is holding up fine.This net will probably also make a good backstop for first base at our team practices this spring, since the fence at our practice field last season did not extend far enough to stop balls which got by the first basemen and many balls went into the wooded downward-sloping hill which was beside first base.I agree with a previous reviewer who suggested that a larger carrying bag would be nice. It is possible to fit the net and poles back into the bag after use, but that requires very careful folding. I plan to use a duffel bag which has a zipper along the side when we take this net to our team practices this spring.

The net is great except for the fact the plugs in the end of the legs keep falling out. Now I have lost one and get no response from customer service about a method to order a replacement.

Great net, Easy setup! Comes with the target net to attach! Much better than the SKLZ practice net that I just returned.I could not believe how simple it was to setup and how sturdy the frame feels.I had purchased the SKLZ practice net, set it up once, had problems & returned it. I purchased this net to replace it and what a difference. You can just tell from the moment that you open the box. The carry bag feels very strong & opens the entire length of the bag not just the end. This makes putting the net in & taking it out of the bag very easy. I removed the metal frame first to set up. First thing I noticed is that these are some nice steel poles that are held together by a steel cable and not fiberglass poles held together by a bungie cord. The poles snap together and make the base. Then you insert 2 poles into the base to make the sides & attach the net to the 2 side poles & to the feet on the base and your done. There is also a piece to go across the bottom which we did not use. However we did use the target with the catch net attached to it. This thing is great for any player to work on their aim & and it is adjustable so it can be moved higher or lower.My son used it for about 20 minutes then I took it down & bagged it up which was just as easy as assembly.If your looking for a great, affordable, easy to set up net that should last a while I would look no further!

I bought this due to a lot of positive reviews. Don't know if it used to be built well and they changed materials or manufacturers, but this is as cheap and flimsy as it gets. The back black bars are cheap plastic and bent so far, there is no way they will not break. The main net has 4 very cheap fabric loops that the add-on pitching net attaches to and one of the loops ripped the first time I attached the pitching net. The stakes it comes with are just as thin and cheap too. I put this up and we had 10-15mph winds and it pulled the back stakes right out of the ground and it fell over twice. Some of the reviews say adults are using this and there is no way. My kids are 8 & 10 and there is no way it would stay upright if anyone older than that was kicking a football or soccer ball at it like some reviews state.My kids were so excited when I surprised them with it and now they are totally disappointed. For the sake of it, I checked with customer service to see if I could just replace the main net with the broken loop so I finally get to try it out, but of course I have to pack up the whole thing again and ship it back. Forget it, complete waste of time. Just another low bid China product, shame on you.