- Jun 19, 2013
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Would love to see video of her riseball with 6-12 backspin.
Like I was saying before we gave up on that over a year ago. It was very slow - like good CU slow She started at 11 with a ball like Hillhouse recommended just sitting in front of the TV working on the back spin. Her first pitching coach said the rise was hard to learn so if she worked on the spin early it would come easier when she was ready so she had her doing a lot of drills for it when she was young and motivated. She used an invention that coach made that was a ball on basically a paint rolling handle to work on it. And threw really large oversized balls to practice the spins. She was very open at release with a high follow through leading with the first finger. Ken B. saw it two winters ago and confirmed that working with the tilted backspin would be effective and that is what we've been doing ever since.