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X Pitcher you still out there. I want an exclusive... contract ??? I'm thinking you got to know alot about hitting too. Love to see you in action in the Hitting forume. Take on a couple questions... but just answer (right......) or (wrong......) Put the periods behind the answers so it will be long enough to post. You need 10+ characters. Better yet (wrong IMHO) I'm thinking you are trying to do the DFP thing with just a phone. I'm guessing that's why your answers are so short and why you haven't commented on any of my videos...keep it that way, and don't do Private messages. You are going to want questioners to log in to your site before you give out anymore answers... Hope you don't have any vendetta for Hitting Coaches too... :{(( You need to listen to me. Hal has all ready tried to help you already, and I thought that that was FAIR warning. Your just going to get kicked off anyway...

I don't care if you ever pitched or not. I only care about seeing what you have passed on to your own DD/GDD...
 
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Thx Hal... I see what your saying about both feet !!! To be honest, I just didn't even know that, and so I would never have seen it., even though I looked and looked at it...I'll get that fixed fast. (that wasn't in the book... JK) Thx again!!!
 
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X Pitcher... hoping to hear your thoughts. This is your thread. Is that a drop off the table Drop??? Just a right or wrong ??
 
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Apr 5, 2013
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Off the table? No. Lots of arc from the the thumb restricting spin and causing the ball to fight getting out of too much grip between the thumb and fingers on the seam. Release point looks good and the movement is as good as can be for a young lady not understanding the best grip for the peel drop. Just moving the thumb a little bit to where the ball is griped between the little finger and the thumb , more than between the three fingers and the thumb, will give her better spin and late drastic vertical movement. I call this movement dramatic. It looks good but it can be better in no time at all. It's a matter of getting her small hand comfortable and secure with just enough grip to keep the ball from slipping out of the hand during the arm circle. I could tell more looking at this from her other side to see her grip and the rest of her delivery, but you just wanted to know if it was off the table. It could be, just like that. Where the thumb needs to be placed is between the two closest seams anywhere so she can get her three fingers that spin the ball across the seam to make 4 seams spin forward horizontal to the ground. I was 18 before another pitcher showed me the grip and explained it to me. It made me rise up to the next level over night. The man who showed me was a pitcher for the Aurora,IL Sealmasters, 4 time ASA national champs and 2 time ISF world champs. His name was Don Proctor, who pitched with the ASA HOFer Harvey Sterkle, before they won their 1st 2 nationals in the late 50s and early 60s. In 1965 Aurora won the ASA nationals and represented the USA at the 1st ISF WT in 66. In 67 they won the Nationals again and represented the USA in the 2nd ISF WT in 1968. Aurora won both of these ISF WT with Harvey, Joe Lynch, and Charlie Richard. In the late 50s and early 60s before Lynch and Richard,they had ASA HOFer John Spring along with Sterkle , Proctor and Chick Walsh. I was born and raised 3 blocks away from the field where these greats played. I was born to pitch and dreamed of being like these great pitchers. I left Aurora in 1968 after joining the Navy where I pitched on the All Navy softball team out of the Sub base in Norfolk Va. in 69 70 and 71. I'll stop because you just wanted a yes or no to the off the table...The grip is posted on my FB page. Friend request me PC, or visit my FB site to see a few old write ups from my Navy days and view the real peel drop grip, for any size hand. I am one of the real pitchers from days gone by, I know the game and all about pitching. I am not a pitching coach and don't want to be one, but I can help any one that doesn't use the back arm swing and roll over drops. You know my name Doug Noble.
 

X pitcher

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Apr 5, 2013
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Micco Fl.
All I can say is "You two deserve each other"..........
Why you up at 3:30? Got to get ready for work? ha ha ha.
You know all the FP science, but you don't care about the history of the game or how to make a peel drop better. Then turn around and kiss your own...but don't fall in love with your self. I'll have to read some of your posts
 

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Micco Fl.
BM I read some of your I/R post that stuck up top on the pitching, Then I see where some one wanted to see a three finger grip. Worst example of a peel drop that I have ever seen. Read my post and learn something about your wrong way of gripping the ball. Your thumb restricts spin big time with that grip for a peel drop. You make some thing so simple as a grip, so wrong, and don't have a clue why you are wrong. This is why this 64 yo X pitcher is here, to save people from wrong teachers like you. The grip you show is why a peel drop doesn't move and is called a fastball. How can a ball get out of that grip with god spin? It can't. I am referring to your picture on post 57 and 59 of the first Sticky post titled I/R in the class room or something close. Please explain what that grip is for.
 
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