Arm Whip wrote:
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I have to disagree. I believe the wrist snap and use of the fingers is a conscious effort that is made easier, more seamless by correct mechanics and timing and the IR. My daughter as well as many others in this area were taught with a conscious powerful wrist snap. It is my feeling that those pitchers had greater spin rate than similar build, athlete pitchers not only in the state but the country at an earlier age. They also pitched with a greater degree of IR. I believe the teaching of the conscious powerful wrist snap for the fastball with a corkscrew spin at the hip across the body resulted in proper IR and not the other way around.
I was going to post a photo that would lead me to believe that a wrist snap is conscious, but I can figure out how to post a photo with this site.
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It depends on how you define wrist snap. In the classic sense of how it is defined there is no wrist snap, no cocking back, no snapping forward. Naturally there is a load on the wrist as you come into release, the arm is accelerating the ball, when the ball is released the hand will accelerate further since it has released the weight of the ball and the wrist will bend. What complicates the issue is that when a pitcher throws a spin pitch like a curve or a rise any kind of bulletspin pitch the hand/fingers will often slide under the ball and after the pitch is released the follow through has a palm up look to it, this looks just like the finish that the "wrist snap" is supposed to produce. With a bulletspin fastball you might have a palm up finish, with a topspin fastball (sometimes called a peel drop) the hand will roll over after release
I have to disagree. I believe the wrist snap and use of the fingers is a conscious effort that is made easier, more seamless by correct mechanics and timing and the IR. My daughter as well as many others in this area were taught with a conscious powerful wrist snap. It is my feeling that those pitchers had greater spin rate than similar build, athlete pitchers not only in the state but the country at an earlier age. They also pitched with a greater degree of IR. I believe the teaching of the conscious powerful wrist snap for the fastball with a corkscrew spin at the hip across the body resulted in proper IR and not the other way around.
I was going to post a photo that would lead me to believe that a wrist snap is conscious, but I can figure out how to post a photo with this site.