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should the reading off a revfire be the same when spinning the ball stationary (ie. no arm circle just wrist/finger spin) vs in a full pitch or should the full pitch have a higher reading?
RevFire readings - stationary vs full pitch
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- Nov 29, 2009
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It's RPS, Revolutions Per Second. It reads the RPS when stationary. When mine arrived I was playing with it. Got it up to 17 RPS on a riseball spin. DD happened to come home from work at the time. She wanted to give it a try. Ice cold and not having done any riseball spins in years she grabs the ball and hits 23 on the very first spin. Yup... Hung my head in shame..
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23! i could hardly hit 15 with a RB spin. can you ask your DD, what's the secret to getting 23?
It's easy to cheat the RB spin in stationary drills. In full pitching the fingers tend to drive under the ball in a snapping motion, however in a stationary position, if you simply snap the ball out like your snapping your fingers you'll double the rotations instantly.
Yes, as expected I typically see a slightly higher reading from someone throwing full motion.
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that's what i thought. the momentum of the arm whip would add a bit to the spin.
thanks.
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23! i could hardly hit 15 with a RB spin. can you ask your DD, what's the secret to getting 23?
Doing literally close to a million of them from the time she was 12 till she finished college. She used to watch TV or walk around the house spinning the ball over and over. Couple that with untold thousands of football drills. Used to keep it in the car so if we were some place and had 15 minutes she would work it.
She had a great riseball. It was her strikeout pitch. When she was pitching in college and doing her spins the seams were a blur when she spun the ball.
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True story. DD was home from college and some of her friends were over. They were sitting in the living shooting the breeze. Anytime you get a group of young adults together the teasing and insults will inevitably become part of the conversation.
She was holding an empty plastic water bottle. The bottle had the cap on it. One of the guys who was sitting about 10' away from her said something to her that ticked her off. She threw the empty water bottle at him with a quick wrist flick so hard it split his lip when it hit him in the face. Everyone in the room immediately went into the OMG mode. They could not believe someone could throw an empty water bottle that hard. She didn't intend on doing that. She just chucked it at him. Her wrist was that quick and strong she didn't realize how hard she actually threw the empty bottle.
