In today's video, i teach you baseball pitching grips and how to throw a curveball!get your free bat spee.

Curve ball grips. Another more advanced variation of the curveball is the knuckle curveball (sometimes called a spike curve). Grip a baseball and place your index finger on the ball. The fingers are basically the same but where the fingers grip the baseball.

You hold the ball on the inside edge of the horseshoe seam and think about directing your fingers over the top of the ball as it’s delivered. The object of the curveball is for the ball to curve as it reaches the plate, breaking below the bat of the hitter. Take your curveball grip and snap your fingers, making the ball pop straight up from your hand.

The curve especially requires a strong snap of the wrist upon release to get the ball spinning enough to grip the air and move straight or diagonally downward. In baseball and softball, the curveball is a type of pitch thrown with a characteristic grip and hand movement that imparts forward spin to the ball,. How to grip and throw a knuckle curveball.

Let's take a closer look at how to grip and throw the curveball. When throwing the ball, be aware of where your thumb is pointing. If the pitching direction is 12 o’clock on the clock, your thumb should point to 10 o’clock.

Grips the ball too deep (“chokes the ball”), which reduces curveball. Reasons for not throwing a curveball are that it will hurt a young pitcher's arm. Place your middle finger along the bottom seam of the baseball.

Place the first two fingers 1/2 to 3/4 inch apart. Grip the baseball across the wide seams with the finger pads over the seams. The key to this pitch is putting topspin on the ball, which generates.