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I love playing baseball and i love pitching but how exactly do i throw a curveball etc.? i just want to learn. DO NOT SNAP YOUR WRIST!!!!!!! No offense to "big papi" above but that's the quickest way to destroy your arm. Just try this, cup your hand over your elbow and turn your wrist. Feel that tendon on the outside of your elbow move? It doesn't have much support and will easily tear/strain. The way I teach (and was taught) to throw the curveball is fairly simple, but takes lots of practice. 1. The grip: grip the ball with two fingers close together. place the outside of your middle finger on the inside of the right seam [with the seams facing you like this ) ( ]. 2. Mechanics: Proper use of your body and follow through are critical to throwing a good curveball. Use your legs, back, and entire body to get the best spin. 3. The Release: Before you throw **** your wrist like you're holding a soda can or nerf football. Release the ball high and pull down hard on the seams while releasing it. (Snap the elbow, not the wrist). Motion should be like grabbing a rope above your head and pulling it down. 4. Practice practice practice: I've taught this to over 30 kids ages 12-15 at clinics I teach and I haven't once had someone hurt their arm throwing this pitch. It will feel very strange the first 10-20 times you throw it, but the more you get used to it, the better you'll feel and the better it will break. Good Luck and remember, DON'T SNAP YOUR WRIST. Source(s): My wife's a physical therapist and has seen a lot of baseball injuries due to improper throwing of curveballs (sliders, screwballs, sinkers too). I've been coaching pitchers for over 13 years. Put two fingers to the left of one of the seams. Then throw it over your shoulder and and snap your rist downward as you release it. You'll put downward spin on the ball which will make it break at the plate. Good Luck! :D The curveball is a type of breaking ball in baseball thrown with a grip and hand movement that imparts top spin to the ball. This causes it to "break," that is, to fly in a more exaggerated curve than would be expected.[citation needed] To properly throw a curveball, the pitcher cocks the wrist inward so that upon release the ball rolls forward over his index finger, creating the desired spin. The Magnus effect then produces a downward force on the ball; this combines with the force of gravity to make the ball curve down.[citation needed] It is a common misconception that throwing a curveball requires a wrist snapping motion during the release of the ball.[citation needed] It has been suggested that throwing curveballs can be dangerous for the elbow, but there are no differences in the motions of the shoulder and elbow joints between a fastball and a curveball[1]. The direction of the break depends on the axis of spin of the ball. There are several different types of curveballs which break differently and move at different speeds. The two most popular are the "12-6" ("dropball" or "drop curve") and the standard power curve.[citation needed] The 12-6 is a slower curveball with a steeper break on the ball, whereas the power curve is thrown much harder and has a later, less pronounced break, down and away from the throwing arm. Both curveballs are effective when used by pitchers who utilize different styles of pitching. Ideally, a curveball breaks just as it reaches the plate, causing the batter to swing above it. A curveball that fails to break soon enough is called a "hanging curve" and is much easier to hit. Also, batters anticipating a curveball may try to move forward (closer to the pitcher) in the batter's box to hit the ball before it breaks, or, put differently, before the downward angle becomes too great. There is actually no specific point where a ball breaks, but the deviation from a fastball trajectory becomes progressively greater as the ball approaches the plate. Brandon McCarthy throwing a curveballThe pitch is slower than a fastball, and this difference in speed also tends to disrupt the hitter's timing. A "slow curve" is a curveball that is thrown in the low 60 MPH velocity range and resembles a changeup that is thrown at a similar speed. The slow curve is commonly thrown after a fastball, or when the pitcher has two strikes and no balls on a batter. A right handed pitcher throwing a curveball is toughest on a right-handed batter, as the pitch will tend to break down and away from the batter, as opposed to inside on his hands (that's what would happen if the right handed pitcher threw a curve to a left handed batter). Most batters prefer pitches waist high and in the middle, instead of down and away, which allows managers to exploit matchups. For some reason, left-handed pitchers seem more inclined to throw curveballs. This is evidenced by the number of left-handed pitchers who throw high-looping, lower-velocity curveballs[citation needed]. A curveball from a left-handed pitcher will tail away from a left-handed hitter, giving the lefty pitcher a slight advantage over a lefty hitter more used to the favorable mechanics of a right-hander's curve. This is one of the reasons why the defensive manager prefers homogeneity of handedness in pitcher/batter match-ups, particularly lefty vs. lefty[citation needed]. A popular nickname for a curveball is the "deuce," referencing the fact that this is commonly the No. 2 pitch in a pitcher's repertoire[2]. Other popular nicknames for the curveball include: "hammer", "bender", "hook", "yakker", "Lord Charles" and "Uncle Charlie"[3]. Wikipedia Well it depends what league that your in? Im a pitcher in a amature league with D1 college to D3 college players and I throw two variations of a curve ball. The first one that I throw is very similar to that of Barry Zito of the Giants. The motion should be EXACTLY the same as that of a fastball so that the batter can not sniff it out before the ball is launched. For instance for a curve ball its easy to tell if a pitcher is throwing a curve is he is "diggin" in the glove and trying to get a good grip. Automatically the batter is going to look for a curve ball. The way I throw my curve similar to Zito is that you place your middle finger on the two closest seems. Your pointer finger shouldnt have so much pressure on it as the middle finger does. Grip the baseball so that there is little room between the ball and your space between your thumb and pointer.(get a close grip but leave a half inch) When throwing this I come at about 20 degree angle from the top so that the ball doesnt move side to side but drops DOWN.. or aka off the table. What you need to do is just practice the release of a curve. Throw a fastball then with the same motion throw a curve and go back and forth till you get it right. the other curve i throw is a bit faster( 10mph slower than my fastball) Take your pointer finger and stick your fingernail between one of the seems in a 4 seem angle. Grip the ball tight and throw just like a fast ball but when releasing you have to push out with that finger to make the ball have top spin on it. Its called a knuckle curve. Practice practice practice.. Good luck and email me if you have any other questions experience |
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