How do you throw a curve ball?
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position the inside two fingers and the outside two fingers as far apart as possible.  and then start practicing holding the ball with just fingertips.  Maybe three fingers will give you a slider, two will give you a bit more travel from left to right.\n\nPractice a lot, but don't blow out your arm.
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Practice throwing shorter distances first and make sure you're throwing it straight.  If you do it correctly, it usually has an "S" flight trajectory.  If you're right handed, it starts of to the right and then comes back left.  Make sure you're throwing straight and then start throwing harder and harder.  Once you can stand there and throw it pretty hard (and straight), then start getting a one step start and use your body along w/ your arm.  Once you master that, Get a running start and put your body into it.  The main thing is making sure that you throw it straight.  You're maximum distance will come on a straight throw.
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Step one\n\nHold the ball as if you're about to bowl a normal leg break.\n\nThe top joints of the index and middle fingers should be across the seam, with the ball resting between a bent third finger and the thumb.\n\nStep two\n\nAt the point of release, the palm of your hand should be open upwards, towards the sky, with the back of your hand facing the batsman.\n\nYour wrist should be 180 degrees to the ground, while the seam of the ball should point towards fine leg.\n\nAgain, it should be your third finger which does most of the work, turning the ball anti-clockwise on release. \n\nVisit:\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/cricket/skills/newsid_3208000/3208899.stm
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first recognize that its a curve by its spin. (It should be spinning on a sort of axis around the top area of the baseball.) Then just wait on it and swing. Be careful if it starts outside because if its any good it will curve out of your reach,also watch for the inside curve because it will break in for a strike. (This is for a righty pitching to a righty)
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Throw it straight up.  Gravity does the rest.  although, technically speaking, you can't throw a ball -anywhere- without it hitting various molecules and bacteria in our air.
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whatever you can throw effectively. if you know how to control all those pitches, use all of them.
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4-3 Free Fire\nif on PS2....\nL1 up or down..(Depending on if you think run or pass), R1 up, Triangle right, Triangle down, then R1 up or down on the right joystick (Depending on if you think run or pass)....Control your MLB....If it looks like a run flick down on the Right joystick to commit to run...if it turns out to be a play action run your MLB in the area you think the QB will pass too....works all day against computer....against friends I usually mix it up with some good zone plays using the same button combos.
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Throwing a Football is a combination of grip on the ball,  arm speed velocity, and proper angle technique.\n\nYour fingers should hold onto the laces.  Many QB's grip the ball with their pinky, ring, and middle finger holding on to the laces, with their index finger and thumb just on the ball.\n\nWhen throwing, you want a bring the ball up to shoulder level and equal to the ear level.  Your shoulders should be turned to the target or person you are throwing towards.\n\nThe release of the ball is a foward in a 90% angle of your throwing arm while your non throwing shoulder moves backward.  You should step into your throw as well.\n\nWhen you release the ball, your hand should almost be pointing at its target.  \n\nThe motion is similar to a Pitcher in Baseball in which the body moves in the direction of the target.
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1.     Grip the baseball by clenching the top of the ball with the tips of your index, middle and ring fingers just below the seams. Dig the tips of your fingers deep into the ball.\n \n2.  Place your thumb below the ball to give it support. Keep your pinkie off to the side.\n \n3.  Go into your windup. Remember to pivot and shift your body weight from the back foot forward toward home plate.\n \n4.  Throw the ball toward home, but don't snap your wrist - keep it stable, eliminating as much spin as possible.\n \n5.  Follow through. Extend all fingers toward home plate as you release the pitch. Your feet should be parallel at the end of the pitch, and your throwing arm should come across the front of your body.\n \n \nTips:\nAn effective knuckleball moves in two or three different directions in flight.\n \nTry a variation on the knuckleball grip by using just the index and middle fingers on the top of the ball. The ring finger joins the pinkie off to the side.\n \nThe slower the pitch, the more time the ball has to weave toward home plate.
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A slider moves right to left (for a right handed pitcher; it is left to right for a lefty) with what is typically a minor downward movement.  The slider is thrown with speed, usually just a bit less than the fastball.\n\nThe curveball tends to have more of a top to bottom break and is thrown with substantially less velocity than the fastball or slider.
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As a coach I teach my kids to:\n1. grip the ball across all four laces.  \n2. Plant your throwing foot, step towards your target with your glove hand.\n3. Reach back with your throwing hand(stretching your arm all the way out) Keep your throwing elbow up\n4. Pull your body through with your glove hand, throwing the ball with your arm in an overhand motion(try not to drop down sidearm)\n5. Follow through, snapping your wrist at the end to give the ball a bit of backspin so that it will stay in the air a bit longer.\n\nRelease point will have to be adjusted according to who you are playing with(their height) \n\nPractice, practice, practice and have fun!...use a tennis ball(or a spongey baseball) and a brick wall.\n\nGood 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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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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No, but if you ask a baseball player "does a curveball curve?" they'll tell you that it sure does, and they're right. It turns out it is a lot harder to prove than you may have expected.  In September 1941,  Life magazine claimed to have proven, through a series of high speed pictures, that the curve ball didn’t curve at all and it was just an "optical illusion." Again, as recently as November 1982, Science 82 magazine published an article that referred to the "apparent break in a curveball" as an "illusion."  If curveballs curve a lot, according to baseball players than where does this controversy stem from?\nThe bottom dotted line is tangent to the path of the ball when the pitcher releases the ball.  If the hitter thinks the ball is a fastball this is the path they would expect the ball to take, but the ball curves on its way to the plate, represented by the solid black line, and the hitter would claim the the ball curved the width of the plate.\n\nHowever, if you were to draw a line from where the ball leaves the pitcher's hand to where it crosses the plate. The largest deviation from this line, called the sagitta, is much smaller. If you were to have three poles in a row it would be very difficult to throw a pitch which passes left of the first, right of the second, and left of the third.
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hold the ball so that the seam looks like a "U", place your index finger and middle finger on or on the outside of the seam. the bottom of the "U" should be between your knuckles. now throw a fastball, but let the ball slide out of your hand, less snap on the wrist. but just a little. the result is the equivalent of a slider but the ball has a more straight downward movement. \nanother grip is just the reverse, flip the "U" up-side down and place your finger tips on the outside of the widest part of the seam.
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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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a real easy way to alter a pitch is to remove some (or most) of your fingers from the ball when you throw it. Your arm speed will make it look like a fastball but because the ball is in your palm (rather than being gripped tightly by your fingers), it will go slowly.