- Jul 31, 2011
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HalGo to Toys-R-Us. Buy a half regulation size football, the one that looks and feels like a real one, not a foam or plastic one.
Can you teach her to throw a football for a spiral? I know you can. Now have her pitch you a spiral with the football.
To pitch a football in a spiral requires you to bring the fingers to the inside of the ball. A perfect spiral like this will come in to the catcher in a fairly level line but the spiral spin will be angled slightly upwards.
See who can throw the best spiral.
You must bring the fingers to the inside of the softball for a good riseball. This alone will not get them 100% there, but it will get them most of the way there VERY qquickly.
Lets see how long it takes some of the other instructors out there to put this on their websites or videos. Should be a good race. Anybody got a stopwatch???
(I can't help myself today I guess in expressing some of my differences with you.) I hate the football drill ( except for quarterbacks ) for the riseball. IMO it gets young pitchers off on the wrong foot and tends to promote a spin axis that I spend untold hours on every day in which to get eliminated. IT IS THE "PLAGUE" (THE SPIRAL) TO SOFTBALL PITCHING!!