Baseball Pitching
Grips 101: When to Learn a
Curveball?
The age
old question we get asked each year from coaches and parents is
when is it ok to teach your youth pitcher
how to throw a curveball. The short
answer is that there is no specific age when it's acceptable to
teach the curveball to a youth athlete. Rather than
communicate an age when the pitch is appropriate, we tend to
recommend taking a look at some of the risks involved and
assessing your profeciency in the potentail dangers of learning
a curveball.
Potential dangers
of a curveball:
1.
The curveball, regardless of how it's utilized and throw, will
put added stress on your throwing arm.
2.
Young pitchers who haven't reached puberty yet don't have the
connective tissues, tendons, and ligaments to support larger
muscle groups. Without these important pieces built and
strengthened, risk for injury is increased.
3.
Young pitchers with short fingers who experiment with
different pitching
grips, mainly the curveball, also risk injury. The
end result of short fingers is the arm will begin to compensate
for the short fingers and improper grip on the
baseball.
4.
Young pitchers especially tend to fall in love with their new
favorite pitch. If this excitement with a new curveball
leads them to throwing the pitch over 20% of the time, the
liklihood that a injury will take place rises
significantly.
5.
Lastly, lack of knowledge on how to throw a curveball properly
will have an impact on the success of the pitch as well as the
health of the throwing arm.
In sum, when experimenting with new pitching
grips, be thorough in your investigation for how to throw
the pitch correctly. We have created an informational
ebook, packed with pictures, that will teach you all the
correct fundamentals of throwing different pitches. Get
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