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    Help with arm circle

    Couple of suggestions: 1. I start out beginning pitchers to stand at near-90degrees open to the direction of the plate, then, without the ball, have them swing their arm in a circle on the "power-line". Progress the speed until they can feel their hand getting tingy. My point is to recognize...
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    Danielle Lawrie Video

    Lawrie isn't throwing a fastball. Similar to the Jenny Finch video in which she throws past a minor league hitter. They're both throwing their versions of a riseball. The spin on both Finch and Lawrie's pitches isn't perfectly 6-12, but the angularity of their ball spinning is enough to move...
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    peel drop

    So, if a pitcher is throwing a fastball (using IR of course) crossing the plate at the knees, all she has to do to add down-break to her pitch is release the ball earlier?? If that's all there is to it, shouldn't be real hard for everyone to do it.
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    Jordan Taylor

    The rule addresses a pitching delivery that is known in baseball circles as a submariner's delivery. There have been a few fastpitch pitchers who tried to throw a pitch that looked like an extreme IR delivery, which was actually the same as the baseball submarine pitch. So, the rule makers...
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    Best Pitch

    In starting a pitcher beyond the fastball and change, I tend to think in terms of rise vs drop. If you simplify the approach to odds of success with either one, this is my approach. 1. A rise is more effective than a drop in terms of a hitter's ability to adjust to the movement. 2. A rise that...
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    Do riseballs rise? 3Q2011 Edition

    Sluggers: 1. Gee, I don't remember saying anything about the laws of physics. 2. If your position were true, someone better tell the aviation industry that all their planes can't "rise" off the ground. 3. Re your scoffing at the concept of a late break, pls advise Mariano Rivera who just scored...
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    Do riseballs rise? 3Q2011 Edition

    Screwball, you're not alone out there. I haven't posted for awhile, but I've put my chips on the square that says riseballs rise in several posts. I'd like to hear from a couple of catchers who have caught pitchers with good risers. They have told me that they will lock in on the pitch...
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    ? off season peel drop drills

    I think you're going to have a hard time developing a hard break on a peel drop. Every video of peel pitches that I've seen, plus watching several girls throwing peels, all have the action of the ball being a rather symmetrical arc. I have Hillhouse's videos, and his peel (which he strongly...
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    Windup

    I think the wideup that comes at the end of the pitcher leaping 4+ feet forward off the rubber, replanting, and then finishing the delivery somewhere beyond the circle, is the one that should be made illegal. Jim
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    Model Grips

    HalSkinner: In your post #6 on this subject, the pictures show a hand gripping the ball. But holy crappola !! -- the hand looks like Andre the Giant has changed sports, and is now throwing risers instead of throwing his opponents into the risers. The ball looks like an 11" size used by 10u-ers...
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    Turnover vs. peel drop

    I agree with Coach Stan. Depends on the pitcher. Players with bigger hands have a natural fit to the peel -- their long fingers seem to provide more rotation. Small hands appear to make throwing the peel less effective. I've caught pitchers with really big hands, and they throw a natural...
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    Internal Rotation

    I agree with Armwhip, regarding the type of pitch determines the position of the hand going into the release zone. It's impractical to try to throw a rise starting with the hand/fingers behind or to the side of the ball -- you would be trying to roll the fingers around 3 sides of the ball...
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    Hips turning gradually or snapping

    I encourage my students to explode into the delivery with strong arm swings into the windmill. We start with the body (hips and shoulders aligned) square or closed to the plate. The action of swinging the pitching arm back will naturally open the body by keeping the hips square to the...
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    Throwing a change up?

    I've tried teaching the flip with little success. My approach with most students is to simply follow 3 rules. 1. Settle on a grip that feels comfortable. 2. The grip must place the ball in your palm, instead of on your fingers. 3.Lock your wrist at release -- no wrist action. Then practice...
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    New manual for change ups

    That rule book looks like the preamble to the section on the "look-back" rule. jim
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    Legal??

    That delivery was a favorite of Eddie Feigner. Big drop-back windup, then release the ball on the first pass of the windmill past the hip. Always surprised the batters and the crowd, who were all still waiting for the ball delivery at the end of the full windmill. Hard to do; I've tried many...
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    Glove hand position on upswing

    A couple of weeks ago, Peter Meredith held a 2 day clinic in La Crosse WI. Did 1 hr sessions with 5-6 pitchers. Very interesting. He uses the typical New Zealander delivery (see Bill Hillhouse) where the glove arm swings back with the ball arm, the glove covering the ball both on the swingback...
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    2 or 4 seam fastball?

    Hillhouse was the feature speaker at the Wisconsin coaches annual clinic last month. He acknowledged that he has ridiculously large hands. That fundamentally limits the applicability of his expertise to the average female. For most girls pitching, if you ask them to apply a differential in...
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    Practcing with a mask on.

    Before a mask is universally mandated, a mouth guard should be standard gear. And it doesn't have to be those ridiculously clumsy hunks of plastic that is always being pushed out of the mouth at moments of inaction. We found a dentist what moulded a mouthguard that was comfortable, innocuous...
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    Model Pitchers

    Excuse me for jumping into you'all's discussion of Ueno, but are you folks telling me that in post#105, the video shows her pitching a curve???? I beg to differ -- the ball is CLEARLY spinning from left to right, or away from the batter, and that is the direction the ball is moving. It is a...

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