Advance Skills of Softball Pitching with Crissy Rapp

[izbrook]

@allie1ful

If accuracy came first then you'd worry the whole time about if your going to get a strike or not It's best to sling it in there and hope for the best even if you mess you'll scare the sh!t outta them. Now, you tell me? Is it better for you to throw about 25 and having strikes (most of them would be able to hit it) Or sling it in there. & plus it builds up muscle tone too. So then you wont be weak throughout the softball season. Trust me if my coach hadda pick between 2 hed pick speed

[otroe1]

Wrong. Control First.

[cmbryant16]

Speed before accuracy ALWAYS. The faster you get, the better mechanics you get, then the accuracy comes. PERIOD. And whoever you are saying you're throwing 80-85mph, you're a retard. Jennie Finch doesn't throw 80 ..... 

[sportschick1542]

When U first start pitching work on your accuracy first but dont do u full wind up just do a half pitch then when u are releasing at the right time then throw in your speed and it will help u throw strikes. Promise that is what i did and now i am throwing at thirty miles an hour maybe in seventh grade and all of them are really close to the strike zone or they are a strike!!

[mizzougirl2012]

i just started and my coahc told me accuracy before speed and that helped me alot!

[SaraLovesYouxD]

Now when your doing the wrist flick are you suppose to end up with a sound coming from your fingertips hitting your palm or it are your fingers suppose to stay kind of straight?

[B4UwereBorn1]

Why did they add the chalk/blocks around the rubber? This is new, and I have never seen a Ump, call on it. It allso seems to dissapear after the second inning. Is this anything our up-comming need to be concearned with?

[B4UwereBorn1]

I like how Crissy can relate to when she was just learning to where she is now. Our girls need to see that the Champs they see now were the same "little girls" that we as parents love to see "pitch" one minute and play with Build-A-Bears the next.-Dad

[B4UwereBorn1]

This is really good to hear from the parent/coach aspect. We need to hear that our girls love to chuck fast first, then get accurate. Thanks for echoing my little girls intrests, I'ts good to know. Great video!

[pinochioluvr]

im 13 and im a pitcher. i think people should learn to get accuracy and mechanics down. your speed will come with time, if you keep practicing your speed will come, trust me. also my coach tells me that and his daughter is a pitcher in college and she told me to get accuracy then speeed

[izbrook]

My coach told me today that speed comes first then accuracy.

[allie1ful]

@izbrook no accurcy is cuz if u r worring about speed u start messing up

[westerngirl13]

agreed, i coach my girls this way...it makes sense to have your speed down first so then you can work on the other stuff and and get that down, rather than getting everything down perfect and messing it up with speed.

[hottnspiceyy]

@1Ynotred You need to shut up! She is giving very important tips. Maybe what you said is true but i might noe be so STFU!

[1Ynotred]

The reason it is better to learn to throw hard before accuracy is simple. Yes it is important to throw accurate but the minute you get accurate and try to speed it up you will then loose accuracy because of the change of arm speed, the strength of leg drive both will change the timing of the release point, resulting in throwing balls over your catcher's head. With the proper mechanics of throwing hard first your muscle memory will kick in to find the release point.

[2kool4uist]

@1Ynotred -EXACLTLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[redhotconvertible]

Crissy is absolutely right. If you teach correct form, get the arm moving as fast as possible, you can create a pitcher. If you are more interested in strikes than form, the player can pitch up through junior high, but will never be a good pitcher at the high school level and up.

[ballhound10]

The key is to learn to throw with the right mechanics and not worry about location right away. I've seen to many pitchers not reach their potential because dad is all about i strike on every pitch in practice when the kid is doing a new drill to fix a flaw in her mechanics. The kid immediately goes back to the old way to please dad and trow strikes. By the time the kid is 14 she is no longer pitching because the kids that were open to learning and struggling learned the right way and passed her

[FinalityOfFatality]

I'm a college pitcher. Speed comes first. What good is being able to control the ball if it's batting practice speed? Throw me a nice fifty five mile an hour fastball and I'll send it to left field. Put a sixty mile an hour fastball in there and the batter has less time to react and see the spin of the ball.

[NesianWithAttitude]

but. . the faster it comes the faster of the bat

[FinalityOfFatality]

That's true. That's why these bats made out of aerospace grade carbon should be banned. All I know is when my team played at our slow pitcher pitched we lost, when I pitched (the only real difference was the speed) we won.

[NesianWithAttitude]

agreed apart from my stealth nd synergy scn2 xD my babies lol

[michellerox27]

no offense but that is probably why you are not as good as jennie finch! she throws hard but she is accurate!!! if you have the right mecanics then all you have to do is then all you have to do is throw harder and make your circle faster!!!!!

duhh!!!!!! : P

[michellerox27]

ohhkay..... well i dont agree with that because if they are throwing consistently hard and they are throwing balls.... they will walk alot of people!!!! it will be hard for them to get accuracy down because you will be used to throwing hard but throwing balls so when you go to fix what they are doing they will not be able to fix it because they will be used to throw it wrong!

[FinalityOfFatality]

She's not saying throwing it hard wrong. You're throwing with the correct mechanics as hard as you can, then she's telling you that the accuracy will come with confidence and muscle memory.

[Crystollina]

without accuracy then wat good is speed ? if u wanna loose by walking ppl then be my guess

[PiccoloCavolo]

I know, Im a pitcher and accuracy is soo much more important because so people just cant hit! Speed will come if you have good mechanics, and good mechanics give you accuracy FIRST. When i first started pitching it was slow, but as I got more comfortable in my motion, speed came.

[amazingemii]

i disagree with speed first. accuracy is always first. what's the point in pitching fast when all of them are balls. when i started out, my coaches told me to pay attention to my accuracy first. but the strides of where to put the ball helps a lot. and there are different ways of pitching a change up.

[PiccoloCavolo]

Haha i NEVER do change ups.

[SoftballLegend33]

All of my coaches tell me to take some off when I start messing up. They need to watch this! Changing speed just screws me up more!

[PiccoloCavolo]

I know, If i get a ball, they are like "Stop TRYING to throw fast!" Im not trying to throw fast..i just messed up a bit ..haha

[emdizzle36]

thanks this really helps keep making videos

[shy8921]

When Im waremin up with my dad he gets mad cause I guess that im trying to throw heat cause im thrown way off but im actually not thrown hard. Then wen i get mad at him and i do throw hard, it goes straight down the middle. Hes heka strict with me and pitchin.

[trixiedog81]

this rlly helps

[softbalqween6]

lol so true ..my softball coach always tells me to slow down but when i slow down it throughs off my rythem and my acuracy

[2kool4uist]

@softbalqween6 EXACTLY 2 ME I TROW BOUT 80-85 mph.

[seyboo52]

@2kool4uist

No you don't

[Maza14]

that is great advice. thanks!

[mcmedic1003]

that was really helpful

[Gamerlg6]

this is really helping me improve im trying out for the boys softball team in my middle school

[Mcblugi]

boys fastpitch??

[PiccoloCavolo]

no its a joke

[jordanandmaddylov011]

also another way to throw a change up is to let go with your hacd floating with your palm facing the ground. It's much more easier than the first way they pitched it.

[dklee32]

This (along with the first part) is great for those of us working with young players. Thanks.

[ballmagnetsmom]

:D awesome