halskinner
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- May 7, 2008
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Ok. I have been holding back on this topic for awhile now. Everyone is saying a bullet spin pitch will have no movement. That statement is only true depending on exactly how you grip the ball and exactly where you place your fingers in relation to the horseshoe seams.
I saw one post where someone placed a red dot right in the exact middle of the area between the legs of the horseshoe. I believe that being the axis of the bullet spin would produce next to no movement. However, if you placed your fingers for the grip with that red dot being ON a seam, a bullet spin pitch will most definitely have some movement, noticeable movement.
Experiment gripping the ball at different positions than you normally do now. Don't give up after 7 or 8 attempts either. Try a new position ( grip) and take a good mental note, practice it many times and see what it does. You might be very surprised to find out you have a new pitch to add to your arsenal. It might break very late and your catcher might hate it but it might be very effective.
PLEASE- someone show me a video of a pitch with a dot marked on the softball from the catchers point of view with the dot not moving all over the place so I can actually believe you can achieve actual bullet spin....
A little, yeah.Actually when I picture throwing a football underhand in a spiral & what my fingers are doing, there is no way they are behind the ball at any time during release, & that has got to slow the ball a ton.