Changing speeds

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Apr 28, 2014
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12 year old DD has been working on a rollover drop for awhile. It's very good but not consistent at all. She asked, yesterday if she has to throw it hard. She said, if I slow my arm down I can make it move but not when I throw it 100%. i didn't know how to answer her ? since we are always pushing her to throw hard. FB was around 50-52 yesterday. Hard drop was around 50. One with good bite 46-48.

FB around 50-52
curve around 50
change around 38
The three that she throws in the game. Can throw FB to location and throw strikes with the other two.

I'm pretty sure you mean a flip change.. my DD throws one. Took a long time to control it... DD has it to where her arm is the exact same speed as her FB. This makes it incredibly hard to distinguish until it's too late. Need to keep arm speed the same.. the trick is to spin or flip it more to slow it down
 
Jan 28, 2017
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I'm pretty sure you mean a flip change.. my DD throws one. Took a long time to control it... DD has it to where her arm is the exact same speed as her FB. This makes it incredibly hard to distinguish until it's too late. Need to keep arm speed the same.. the trick is to spin or flip it more to slow it down

DD throws are flip change with a little some twisting of the hand. Throws it for strikes most of the time and it's around 38 mph and good arm speed. The question was on the rollover/turnover drop. This is the pitch I was asking about slightly slowing down her arm speed.
 

shaker1

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Dec 4, 2014
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DD throws are flip change with a little some twisting of the hand. Throws it for strikes most of the time and it's around 38 mph and good arm speed. The question was on the rollover/turnover drop. This is the pitch I was asking about slightly slowing down her arm speed.

Not a rollover, but she puts the same spin on both pitches. Drop and a change, gets a couple more revs between hand and glove on change. Mid 60's on the drop, mid 50's for the change

 
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Feb 3, 2010
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I think Ken B.'s daughter throws an off speed drop similar to this. He'll probably chime in!
Sorry, not sure how I missed this? She throws a turn over as an off-speed with the ball coming off the pinky/ring fingers. It takes 5 or so off and dives. Hoping to check RPS with a RevFire when they're back in stock. She's going back and forth with the off-speed and a change after javasource covered the change at the clinic.
 
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