Matsuda Slow Motion

[sluggers]

Hiraku Matsuda is a 32 year old professional softball pitcher in Japan. He is currently one of the top two or three pitchers in the world. (And, no, he doesn't throw a screwball...)

@Hillhouse, have you seen this guy pitch?

 

[ANNASDAD]

I can’t for the life of me tell what kind of glove he’s wearing? I got one terrible glimpse of it.....think it’s a Mizuno?

Feel pretty sure I’d take him yard, he better stay over there!

 

[ArmWhip]

Interesting that he turns his push off foot/leg out about 45 degrees when he launches.

 

[ANNASDAD]

Interesting that he turns his push off foot/leg out about 45 degrees when he launches.

And he REALLY launches off the rubber!

 

[Ksphenom]

Barnhill's Dad?

 

[MattM]

Great long jump competitor. Noticed on the drop ball he is more palm to third than palm up. Also using 2 finger grips.

 

[ArmWhip]

The men have always interested me because they do some things differently from the women. This the first good quality slo-mo video I have seen.

The arm timing is different because of the length of time the men spend in the air between launch and landing. This makes me wonder about the absolutes that are often used here regarding where the arm/hand/ball should be at certain points in the motion. If you look at this pitcher the ball is at about 5 o'clock when he leaves the ground, the standard used here is usually about 3 o'clock. Then on landing the ball is around 8-9 o'clock, 10-11 o'clock is the standard here. My overall impression from watching the video is that men 'throw' the ball underhand more than the women do and rely less on arm circle speed to generate velocity.

The crow hop is common and I'm wondering if it's mechanism for taking some of the stress off the landing leg and stabilizing the landing. There also seems to be less front side resistance, the landing and follow through remind of when my pitchers do long toss.

 

[tomorrow]

His glove swim is unique.

 

[radness]

The men have always interested me because they do some things differently from the women. This the first good quality slo-mo video I have seen.

The arm timing is different because of the length of time the men spend in the air between launch and landing. This makes me wonder about the absolutes that are often used here regarding where the arm/hand/ball should be at certain points in the motion. If you look at this pitcher the ball is at about 5 o'clock when he leaves the ground, the standard used here is usually about 3 o'clock. Then on landing the ball is around 8-9 o'clock, 10-11 o'clock is the standard here. My overall impression from watching the video is that men 'throw' the ball underhand more than the women do and rely less on arm circle speed to generate velocity.

The crow hop is common and I'm wondering if it's mechanism for taking some of the stress off the landing leg and stabilizing the landing. There also seems to be less front side resistance, the landing and follow through remind of when my pitchers do long toss.

Womans fastpitch
Having faced when pitchers could crow hop to when that rule got changed
and facing same pitchers after...
Big crow hop certainly creates a timing element for batters!
Pitchers had more bursting energy too!

While have read people commenting umpires dont call the little hop seen occasionally now.. umpire saying they arent gaining an advantage.
Hmmm?
When big crow hop was allowed it was deffinetly to pitchers advantage
Just sayin'

 

[Rolling Hard]

His riseball does rise. But my DD would still take him deep.