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A normal for our bullpen pitchers is 25-45 shots depending on time of year, weather conditions, and packaging arm. We always make sure our pitchers are in good condition and their arms are well conditioned, before starting bullpenning our pitchers. Their arms must be strong before you start working or go throw the ball curve.
I am assuming that everyone knows that the 4 basic elements of safely and successfully launch a curve ball.
1) The correct grip.
2) The proper action of the wrist.
3) same arm speed is used as all other areas.
4) A good arm action down shade that pulls the arm pulls down giving the ball rotate as required to reach the finish line strong arm.
NOTE: The curve balls are thrown with the use of a correct grip and wrist action. young players who have not demonstrated the proper mechanics will try to use the action of the elbow to throw the curve ball. This is the basis of all arguments against the youth-curve-ball-use.Failure to learn the proper techniques and safe for the launch field curve ball can and must cause severe injury to his arm gamers.
With that said, I cover how we use 4 different anchor points to change the visual aspect of our curve balls. The anchorage points are just spots or visual landmarks that our focus on pitchers and throw the ball breaks the plane curve desired. The ability of a pitcher to throw four different visualanchor points or objectives to the pitcher 4 different levels to break the curve ball.
The anchors we use are:
1) Hip Beaters - The pitcher must break in the middle of the strike zone and is used to get a strike called. Good first shot. This step should have a good bite down.
2) The arbitrators Mask - This step should break to the outside corner of the plate. This step should be thrown as a strike. This step should have a good bite down.
3) Catcher Mask -Depending on where the collector is set-up, this step can end or off the plate. We are trying to throw a pitch that breaks down the outside of the plate. This step should be a difficult step to hit, even if the batter is expecting a curve ball.
4) Catchers Away From the batter's shoulder - This is a big step. Must be a step impossible to hit. The pass must break at least one foot on the plate.
COACHING POINT: There may be a time when you must throw or a wastepitch in the dirt. Throw this pitch in the hope that the batter will chase a bad pitch. The anchor point used for this step is the glove. Another important point is that the practice of throwing these points stretch and windup delivery. When a pitcher uses an anchor point, the shooter must concentrate and focus on that anchor point for the delivery everything as if it were the gloves. This system can not work for everyone. I hope this information is helpful. Goodluck until next time. Nick Dixon
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