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Define “shot”. Is that a line drive shot to the outfield or is a blooper over the infield? As far as true line drive “shots” with aluminum, those are normally hits with wood too.
It all has to do with where the ball contacts the bat linearly (length of the bat) and not in a radial direction. Don’t know if your “pop up” problem can be attributed directly to hitting with wood but hitting with wood is very different and marginal hits normally turn into infield dribblers or flairs to infielders. Since the “sweet spot” on wood is much smaller the margin for error is greater with wood and your “mistakes” will show up. Those metal bat hits that you are experiencing tend to dwindle when you start swinging wood.
Fungo
No doubt hitting with wood is harder, but what really helps is using that wood bat when you work out on your own or in bp. The wood bat is heavier and has a smaller sweet spot so if you start practicing making proper connection with the wood bat (which is harder to do than with aluminum, because the wood bat trains you to hit the ball EXACTLY and perfectly on the sweet spot) when you use your alluminum bat, even a mistake where you dont make perfect connection if you were using the wood, on the aluminum you still have that bigger sweet spot with more room for the tiniest error, plus if you go on to play any form of pro ball or play in a wood bat league, it wouldnt hurt to start to get a little bit of a feel for the lumber

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