How do I throw a curveball?
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Here you go, just follow these simple steps.\n\n1.Hide the ball in your glove.\n \n2.Grip the ball with your middle and index fingers perpendicular to the seams at their widest point, with your thumb underneath the ball.\n \n3. Spread your top fingers apart slightly and keep your ring finger and pinkie tucked into your palm. \n \n4. Hold the ball firmly, applying pressure with your middle finger and thumb. Try not to let the ball rest in the palm of your hand, and keep your index finger relaxed. \n \n5.Wind up into the pitch. Use the same pitching motion as in your other pitches so that the batter cannot predict a curveball. \n \n6.Keep your wrist relaxed. After drawing back the pitch, hold your wrist so that the back of your hand points toward your body. \n \n7.Roll your wrist downward and to the right (if you are right-handed) or to the left (if you're left-handed) immediately before releasing the pitch. \n \n8.Release the pitch and follow through by bending your wrist. A right-hander should finish with the palm facing in toward the chest. The top of your thumb should be facing up.\n \n9.Throw the ball between the batter and home plate if you're a left-handed pitcher facing a left-handed batter or if you're a right-handed pitcher facing a right-handed batter.\n \n \n\n \n \nTips:\nYou can also try gripping the ball between and along the seams. Spread your fingers apart slightly and press your middle finger into the ball. Go with the grip that allows you a comfortable release, the proper spin and maximum control.\n \nTurn your wrist further to increase the ball's spin. You will lose some control but will gain more curve. Throw harder, and the pitch gains speed but loses some of the curving movement.\n \n \nWarnings:\nThrowing a curveball can cause serious and possibly permanent damage to your shoulder, elbow and wrist. For this reason, most managers and coaches advise that young players avoid this pitch until they reach physical maturity.
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Depends what you want from your throw. \nIf you the ball to go high, you throw with a larger Vy than Vx, but if you want it to go further horizontally you need to throw with a larger Vx than Vy.\nHope that helps
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First, don't try to "kill" the ball. That will throw you WAY off. Either right or left handed, you can swing sooner and/or later and shift which way the ball goes...best way to hit is stand straight with the batter's box and when you swing, step in to the swing. This will give you more momentum on your bat.\n\nOne of the biggest mistakes that you can do, though really, is "killing" the ball. A lot of times, it will send a ball straight into foul play.
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1.   Grip the ball as you would a four-seamed fastball. The index and middle fingers should be on top of the ball across the seams at the widest point. Hold the fingers about 1/2 inch apart from one another.  \n  \n2.   Place the thumb under the ball across the seam and curl the ring finger and pinkie along one side. The two smallest fingers should make little contact with the ball's surface.  \n  \n3.   Hold the ball with your fingertips away from the palm of your hand.  \n  \n4.   The index finger and thumb should provide all the pressure. The middle finger releases the ball.  \n  \n5.   Go into your wind-up. Remember to pivot and shift your body weight from the back foot forward toward home plate.  \n  \n6.   Turn your wrist inward in a corkscrew motion just before releasing the pitch. This rotation is the opposite of a curveball. For left-handed pitchers, the ball should break down and away from right-handed hitters.  \n  \n7.   Follow through the ball as if it were a fastball. Your feet should parallel each other at the end of the pitch, and your throwing arm should come across the front of your body.   \n\nWarning: The screwball is an advanced pitch that will cause arm damage. Practically no major leaguers use this pitch anymore.
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You take your hands and curl them a little bit, like cat claws\n\nGet under the ball and face the direction you want to hit the ball at and the player you want to set it to\n\nKeep looking up at the ball, raise your curled hands over the front of your head and you're gonna swiftly extend your hands and make contact under the ball with your fingertips(that's why you have your hands curled)  when the ball comes down just about above your head. \n\nI think also bend at the knees and then extend your legs when you extend your arms to hit the ball\n\nNO PALMS WHEN SETTING A BALL!
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With a pop fly, throw the softball straight into the air above your head and the catch it, making sure to use two hands. Then once you feel comfortable with that you can start to throw it a little bahind you or a little in front of you. Grounders and then regular catching you can play catch with a parent or friend. Start down on one knee, with your catching knee raised, about 4-5 feet from your partner and throw lightly to gain cantrol. Once you feel comfortable with that you can stand up and one of you can take a couple steps back. Now, start throwing from that distance, while staanding. Remember to aim for the persons chest area.
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Throwing a curve can rip apart your tendons when done wrong.  But at a young age there is no right way to do it.  Sure they will be dominant because no young kids can hit a curve, but it will destroy their arm later in life.  A guy I used to play with was a great pitcher at a young age, but he started throwing a curve and by the time we hit high school he couldn't throw faster than 70mph.  Which was slower than what he threw back then. \n\nThere is a kind of curve ball, though it doesn't have as much sideways movement, it is virtually harmless.  Hold the ball like you would a slider and when you throw instead of your hand being horizontal, keep your palm facing you, don't snap your wrist, just start like that, and follow through like that.  It will drop like it's dropping off of a table.
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1. be patient\n2. learn to READ bowlers grip\n3. anticipate\n4. get in line of the ball..with full face of the bat\n5. wait for the ball (which is half pitched)\n6. charge the ball (which is over-pitched)
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There are 2 curves involved with a thrown ball.\nGravity causes one and air pressure causes the other.\nThe force of gravity will accelerate the ball toward the ground and create a parabolic curve.\nA ball that has no spin, like a pitcher's knuckleball will curve unpredictably.  One that does has spin will curve in a direction that is tangential to the axis of rotation.  Topspin on a tennisball or pingpong ball will cause it to drop sharply, whereas with backspin the ball will almost float to the back line. In those examples the axis of rotation is parallel to the ground.  With a pitcher's curveball, the axis of rotation is nearly vertical and the curve will be to the left or right depending on which direction the ball spons.  This curve is caused by the air's interaction with the spinning ball.
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emm throwin a ball around?? u must become the ball, get to know the ball, be its best friend, become on. or get lessons or something. sorry :( no one answered ur q so i thought id give it a go
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I don't believe you. Even if you can, can you just throw it or you can throw curve balls, change up, fast balls, fork ball up, etc. What I mean is that can you really strike a guy out with a 98mph fast ball or you can just a throw a ball at 98 mph? 2 different things .
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It's going to take a lot of practice before you are consistent. Just keep that in mind. \nLine up a little farther away from the service line to give yourself room for the jump. You can either toss one handed or two handed. The trick is to toss high and a little in front so that you have time to do an approach and meet the ball. The approach is almost the same as a hitting approach except you stay facing straight ahead. So toss, do the approach and hit. Good luck!
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If you want to consistently hit to the opposite field you need to learn to look for the right pitches to do it with. It is really tough to drive an inside pitch the opposite way unless you just are so late on your swing that you squirt one down the line. What you want to do is look for pitches away, keep your head and front shoulder in and step towards the ball. If you open your shoulder or your head flies up you will dribble little grounders, but if you keep that front shoulder in and swing with the location(that one is hard to explain just practice) you will discover the secret all on your own.
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This depends on a lot of things...  Do you have quick feet, quick release, strong arm, and are your pitcher holding the runner so that you even have a chance at throwing the runner out.\n\nThe first thing to work on is your arm strength. Make sure you are doing a lot of long toss. You can work with another catcher or pitcher. You can also do some tube work to work on overall strength for your arm and shoulder.\n\nMy favorite drill is the 1,2,3 Rapid Fire Drill. You will need a pitcher, 1st basemen, 2nd basemen, 3rd basemen.  Pitcher will need three balls and stand about 30 - 40 feet away. Pitcher throws first ball as you recieve first ball, drive your left knee downward and toward first base, rotate upper body to first base. Using a short snap throw, deiver the throw to firstbase.\n\nQuickly recover to receiving position... pitcher throws ball number two.  Throw to second base using a jump pivot, jab step, or rock and fire method.  \n\nQuickly recover to receiving position... pitcher throws third ball. Throw to third remmeber to work on a right footed drop step to clear right handed batters.\n\nDo this five or six times a practice.\n\nAnother good drill is "Quick Hands Drill"\nTwo catchers line up about 15-20 feet apart facing one another. The catcher receiving the throw gets into ready position with glove extended and throwing hand positioned behind the glove hand or against chest in a relaxed manner. \n\nYour partner initiates by throwing the ball. As the ball contacts the glove the throwing hand immediately covers the ball while the fingers find the seam.\n\nUsing "short" arm action, the ball is brought back under the chin while the front shoulder closes. Hands break, and the ball is brought straight back to the throwing position.  Without hesitating throw the ball back to the other catcher who has assumed the ready position. THis should be done about 15-20 throws each. DON'T USE YOUR FEET!  THIS IS JUST TO ISOLATE UPPERBODY THROWING MECHANICS.
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you can pretend to start your wind up and step off with your opposite foot and throw over.  If your a right handed pitcher your first motion is taking a step back with your left foot.if you step off with your right you can do whatever you want except throw to the plate.  the opposite goes with left handed pitchers.
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One of my old teamates uses the slurve nd i have used it in the past. If your starting use the 4-seam 1 its a lot easier to control. 1st u out ur middle finger on 1 side of the ball nd the thumb on the other side of the call (of course both r touchin both seams) the u put ur pointer finger on the top of the ball nd have ur other 2 finger rest nd throw it. the 4-seam is faster nd less slurvy than the 2-seam. the 2-seam is most affective but u really have 2 pracitce. i believe u take the middle nd the thumb on 1 seam each nd put the pointer on top of the ball but iv never seen the 2-seam but i can imagine that it is a wicked pitch. i never used the slurve in a game i jus used my fastball, change up, curve nd slider\nthe slider can be thrown many way. i like to have the middle on 1 side of the seam nd the pointer on the otehr side of the seam nd my thumb on top nd watch it go. try not to touch the seam.
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First off a curveball doesn't tail. \n\nWhat you need to do is finish the pitch better. A pitch will maove more when you don't watch it because you will get better extension and finish the pitch. The path the your hand takes determines the angle of the break, if your goes top to bottom (12-6) the ball will do the same. \n\nAnother thing you should try is to think fastball and start the curve ball after your head not before. This create tighter spin and the break will start later. A lot of young pitchers have the problem of starting it behind their head and it gives off the appearance that it is coming out of the top of your hand, the curve will be like a big loop (like Barry Zito). \n\nTry spiking your finger nail on your index finger into the ball, this will create a feeling of getting on top of the pitch. \n\nYou need to be aggresive when you finish the pitch.\n\nMost importantly, make sure your elbow is above your shoulder, this is for health and saftey of your arm.