Hey, what's up guys? We're talking a little baseball
Pitching grips, [I'm] here with my sidekick jersey
and my homeboy buddy and
we're going to talk about the four seam fastball and the [12:6] curveball okay great combination [to] pitch off of
having a fast pitch that moves this way and a slower pitch that
Breaks down and has a lot of depth to it, okay
first of all the four Seam fastball
They call it a four seam because you grip it
Across the four seams some guys grip it on top of the seam here
Other guys and myself grip it off of the seams here because the seams hurt the fingers too much
But the reason they call it a four seam fastball is because when it's traveling [through] the air. It's spinning backwards it has backspin and
Four seams cut through the air one two three four. That's why they call it a four seam fastball, okay?
Theory behind the four seam fastball is that you're going to get more speed to the pitch
Because you have more seams cutting through it and the magnus effect is going to help
Carry that ball faster to home plate and stay on the same plane
which in my opinion you want to have more depth on a pitch, but the four seam fastball can be used very effectively for
In my example personally I would use the four seam fastball to go into a lefty so my ball will entail back over the plate
[I] very very rarely [threw] a four seam
Fastball to a righty. [I] would throw more of a sinker to a righty
But again it can be a very effective pitch if you get some good backspin on it
And it's a good pitch to be able to locate where [you're] pitching
if you guys throw a four seam fastball go ahead and hit [that] thumbs up real quick and
Then we're going to talk about the [twelve] six curve ball. You [know] throw a 12-6 [curveball]. [I] don't know where he went
[Twelve] Six Curve Ball
You're going to grip the way. I grip it is you can grip it many different ways
But the way, I grip it is where the open horseshoe is when I take my two fingers
I'm going to take my middle finger and hook it [right] on that lace and
Then I have this other finger and put it right next to it my thumb placement is going to be
underneath in line pretty much with my two fingers
but I'm cutting half of the ball more off on this side of the ball versus this [cylla] ball that's going to help when I
Throw this ball here
It's going to help for it to pop out and go forward now a 12-6 curveball is just like the four seam fastball
Except instead of going four seams spinning through the air backwards you want it to go four seams through the air spinning
Forwards and the more forward you can get this ball going this way with the four seams on the horseshoes the more depth
Straight downward you're going to get and that's why they call it a 12-6
Curveball twelve six is just a reference to a clock imagine a clock
[your] 12 is up here your six is down here
You want that ball to go from here to [here] so it's more of a straight down pitch
then your typical curveball which is more of a [one] [seven] or [two] [eight] okay, so
Again, I'm not really
Squeezing extra hard on these laces, and I'm not soft. I know sometimes you hear hold it like an egg. I'm definitely not soft
I'm not holding it like an egg, and I don't have much space in between my hand here as you can see
I'm pretty pretty
I don't want to say tight, but I'm pretty
Close to the ball on my grip
So I've got a very good grip on this ball
Again when you come through you're just trying to come fingers on top so your wrist angle is going to be this way
On your [four-Seam] fastball your wrist angles going to be right behind on the curveball it's going to be more like a karate chop
But your fingers want to be on top coming down
through that ball getting that four seam Spin going forward if you guys throw a
12-6 curveball go ahead and hit that thumbs up now, or if you found this [helpful]
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Go ahead and leave me a comment below and [let] me know what pitches you throw, we'll talk about it in the comment section below
Thanks guys hope this [helped] and I'll talk to you soon
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