@@JakeTheCake668 I would recommend rewatching the video, playing with the arm angle for some pitches, or altering the grip slight as this helped me with some pitches.
Right when I started wiffle ball I look up pitches and I watch you and it help me so much and now a could call my self a good pitcher because you helped me learn
@@Rehcaz26_ I don’t have an in depth tutorial it’s just something I learned on my own tinkering with pitches. My only recommendation is throwing over the top
We both throw risers, sliders and knuckleballs but we have different grips but we get the same results. Thanks for the screwball thou! Now I throw like 8 or 9 pitches
@@quickshot2711 I hold it where the tip of my fingers are right infront the holes of the wiffle ball, then with my throw, I flick the wrist and let go you with the tip of my fingers, it’s always been a swing and a miss
If you struggle with unscuffed wiffle balls, hear me out - my frustrating experience has proven they actually make no sense until scuffed or cut. After I cut mine everything started to work like magic.
So do you ever have to play in leagues or games when it’s just scuffed and not knifed balls??? Just wondering the difference in movement between knifed and regular scuffed.
I feel like my natural motion for when I pitch is to snap my wrist, so when I’m playing wiffleball its hard for me to throw the slider, curve and overhand screwball. When I play I have completely unorthodox grips for my pitches. I throw a sinker-drop ball where I hold it with the holes facing up and I do a sidearm. I throw a sidearm/underhand screwball with the holes totally facing down. Whenever I try and throw a slider or screwball it always ends up a fastball. Anyways great vid Jack!
I can't get the hang of the slider or cutter. I've got a 3/4 delivery. How are you rolling the ball out of your hand? Do you grip it tightly like a curve? I can throw a 4sm, 2sm, circle change, curve, and splitter. The curve took a while, but I didn't have a hard time learning the others. Seems like the cutter would be easy, with the same arm action as a 2sm but gripping the bottom half instead of the top so it spins clockwise.
The scuffing reminds me of the red ball in test cricket. Because they use the same ball for hours you'll see the bowlers (pitchers) constantly rubbing one side of the ball on their clothes, trying to keep one side shiny and smoother, while the other side gets roughed up.
The reason you get better grip is because there is much less surface area to catch on your skin giving it more friction on so a perfectly smooth ball would be impossible to pick up
use 3 fingers along the seam and try really hard to spin it straight forward. i used to have trouble with the riser and the screwball because i was releasing the ball from the sides of my fingers and not my fingertips
When I throw mine I hold it opposite of a slider grip, I put just the tip (heh heh) of my index finger in the ridge of the bottom of one of the holes, and slightly cock the ball inwards toward my palm (kinda hard to explain basically so the holes that are closer to the palm side of my hand are closer to my hand than the hole on the opposite side of the ball by my fingers). . When I throw I snap my wrist down hard and make sure that when I release the ball the holes are at a perfect 90 degree angle from the ground. Everyone’s body mechanics are different when they throw so some adjustments need to be made person to person but as long as the holes come out as close to 90 degrees from the ground and the snap of the wrist causes optimal spin, you’ll get results eventually. Sometimes I video tape myself in slow motion to see when a pitch did what I wanted, what my body and the ball was doing and take a mental note of that
That’s because you arnt throwing it fast enough which makes for one of the best change ups like ever but not the goal so just speed it up and yea your good
Some serious plastic…. And maybe the best piece of sports equipment as it is attainable for all ages and neighborhood friendly. I think most folks can throw a riser; a natural for me. But control and making it part of an arsenal is a sweet science - beautiful/evil. In college, and just hacking around, I found myself at bat on two separate occasions against these pitches. Both of those guys throwing were from Japan, and city kids. Thanks for helping me understand.
