Edy, can u post a pic with the 4 finger grip?
Thanks!
JJ...do you have the full recording of the UCLA v. Michigan game on May 29? The intro to the show had slow motion of Megan Betsa throwing a rise with about 1-7 rotation.
The rise is a very difficult pitch to throw. Few pitchers have good breaking stuff. The stuff about 12YOA kids have a great *anything* is just crap.
Clearing up a possible misconception about what good Riseball spin looks like is what I am trying to do by showing the actual spin of very effective riseballs at the top D1 level and above. Clips of riseball pitches that do not show the spin are plentiful. You can watch any game and see them 50 times. Seeing the actual spin of these pitches allows people to see the correlation so they know if the spin axis is correct for a good Riseball and can start working on other things like spin rate and release angle
If you have a description, opinion, clip of what you consider good RB spin then please share.
Last week, FFS was trying to stop people from using the terms "fastball" and "drop ball". This week, he wants people to stop using the term "rise ball".
Again, the data from the 2011 CWS simply destroys his "theories". You can see the data at the right shows pitchers getting the ball to end up 10 to 15 inches above where the ball should be if it were thrown with zero spin. Some of these kids were doing something to get the ball to move.