I am a baseball coach in Belgium, Europe. Unfortunately, there are not many coaching courses with us. For that reason I have watched hundreds of youtube instructional videos in recent years. And for pitching, coach Dan Blewett has undoubtedly taught me the most. Your videos are always clear and to the point. Super!

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words - I always try to break things down simply so those of you across the world can dive in and find it useful. Really appreciate this comment and that I’ve been a part of your journey.

@matthewmcclure3181

Жыл бұрын

Are you affiliated with one of the international schools (like ISB or St Johns)?

@geertdezutter9168

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewmcclure3181 No we're not, as far as I know they do not offer any baseball education

@Rqcist

Жыл бұрын

Ere pobre tu no tiene entrenamiento

@hillbillypatriot1

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this tutorial, a very good and useful video, I would like to see a video of Adam Wainright do a pitching tutorial for his curve ball.

I played baseball from what I was 4 until 7th grade. I'm now 20 and 2 years out of high school so it's been about 7 years since I really thrown a baseball like I used to. My cousin who is heading into 6th next year has taken an interest in it, so I've been teaching him the basics as well as me learning some stuff I never did when I played. I was never a pitcher; I was an all-around outfielder with shortstop being secondary, but I would always pitch against the barn wall at home (painted strike zone and all). I never once tried anything other than a normal fastball. I went outside today after watching this video and tried the curve and DAMN that sucker curved. I guess the years of playing and knowing how to throw a ball I guess helped out a lot, so this video was fantastic! Keep up the good work man.

Most people are clueless on the tremendous skills it takes to be a MLB Pitcher.

Excellent explanations. Information I could have used 30 years ago. Growing up I would hear: “put your fingers there and just throw it”

@Fraederichs

3 ай бұрын

Yes. Back then it was what you said or a book that had a few photos with lousy explanation. KZread is great for this.

ive been a pitcher for a while and i never wanted to through a curve becuase i thought it was pointless. after watching this video and going through it many time, i have strucken out many batters with this nasty curveball. this video helped me out a lot. thank you coach dan blewett

Great video coach! Thank you. I throw mine differently. Usually it’s the triangle button.

I really appreciate Coach Dan's philosophy, as well as his extensive knowledge. As a fan, watching his videos has greatly increased my enjoyment of baseball.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

I throw mine differently. Usually it’s the triangle button

Excellent tutorial. I wish these videos were around 30 years ago. In my teens, I was a solid fastball(2 & 4 seam)/change-up pitcher but I would regularly hang my breaking balls. This video would have help me out a ton back then. Good on you for passing the knowledge on to the next generation of hurlers.

@nskr160

11 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking….30 years ago, I would’ve ate these vids up daily and probably wouldn’t have destroyed my arm before I was 17.

Thank you so much I play 14u D1 and I was learning how to pitch it better and this really helped you are the best coach ever!!

Amazing video I have used both the slider and the curve videos and have mad a tremendous effect on my skill and consistencie

Thank you for showing me how to throw a curveball.

As somebody who is trying on their own to train and make an attempt at being good enough to walk on to a JuCo or maybe an Independent league one day, these videos are a God send. I am trying to find a personal coach, but these videos help alot.

The curve ball is a powerful pitch especially if it has a nice big break. It’s my bread and butter as a left-hander and well most guys can’t do anything with it. I know my curve rivals Detmers of the Anaheim Angels and Framber of Houston and-I’m 52!!!

@abef.9085

Жыл бұрын

Mine was a NASTY Knuckle Ball...Babe Ruth Team...Hitter"s were scared.

I'm 14 and I play for rebault high school going into my sophomore year I'm gonna turn 15 in August 20th I been working on my curveball for a year I see some progress thank you so much

Great video! You always explain things very well

That helped me very well thank u

This is very helpful, I’ve been struggling to throw a curveball l, so thanks man!

I picked up the curve ball pretty fast. I keep my fingers close together and throw it hard like a fast ball and it comes in high and drops low as it crosses the plate. When i add side spin to it like you say not to do it acts like a slider for me

Even my coach was impressed

I found this very helpful

Great stuff. I wish I could have seen videos like this about fifty years ago when I was pitching.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video coach! Thank you

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I coached a Little League for a 2 years, and had to constantly tell these 11 and 12 yr old's to stop trying to throw a curveball. They like but but, I made them do a lap for every curveball thrown. I told them a couple fastballs and a half decent change up was all they needed. Sadly pitching wasn't aren't weak point we had a few issue in the field and at the plate.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

yeah I advocate for people to wait until 14-15

@Sportsshorts95

Жыл бұрын

@@DanBlewett should I be throwing a curveball at 13 because I just started throwing one

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Id say wait a year and focus on your changeup

Holy shit that fingernail forward was so helpful!

Thank you so much at my last game I only threw 4 seams and we lot by 12. I hope this will spice up my pitches

@thedude4762

Жыл бұрын

Throw your fastballs using different grips and learn how to throw a change up which even if you throw it wrong it wont hurt your arm unlike a curveball

@bruhstar9144

3 ай бұрын

@@thedude4762 bet

Self taught. Umpired over 15 years. Grip made up individual results. Height left or right is what I saw over time.

Great points, I think kids should wait awhile to throw the curve, Why? If you look at all the arm injuries there are today, Its weak tendons and muscles in the forearm and elbow. Isometric, and light weight training to strengthen the body parts that are involved in throwing.

Thanl you coach

Good 👍

I’m not a pitcher in baseball but I definitely could be, so I thought "why not try to learn some techniques then?" So here I am.

@BigWankus

Ай бұрын

I’m doing the exact same thing lol

When I pitched as younger kid, threw a curve ball by holding my middle finger… how can I explain this… okay. Take where the Rawlings is written on the baseball, that’s in between the seam looking like a horse shoe. My middle finger would be on the inside of the seam as my pointer finger right next to it covering the Rawlings. Fingers running the same way as Rawlings written. My middle finger kinds of bent on the seam. The curve balls I threw doing this would break insanely. The problem was I had bad control. Even with fastballs I was on or way off. If you got control, holding the ball this way sure made it curve and drop.

Hey thx for the tip man i just started baseball i wanted to know how do i throw a baseball at someone not like a fly ball more like a in the middle not too hight not too low

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

you just gotta go do it, man. go throw.

Thanks for the great video! I am a fan, a subscriber, and have read your book on pitching. One comment: at 5:07 you say there are studies that show that people that throw more off speed pitches have more arm pain. Would you please cite such research in the description. I feel you may also want to point viewers to other research that shows a curve ball puts the least amount of strain on the arm relative to the FB, CH, and SL. (Driveline study). Great work.

@DanBlewett

6 ай бұрын

It's an ASMI study - I would never cite research from places like you're suggesting. Have seen way too much junk science come from baseball academies - studies with no control group, few subjects, heavily biased groups, no peer review, junk standards. I don't know where that study is but it's been cited by many beyond myself - search for it. Side note - studies on arm stress across different pitches were completed by the ASMI long before any of these baseball academies - and are vastly more reputable.

I got a question for you about Charlie Morton and Rich Hill. They both throw curveballs, but they have a large amount of sidespin present according to stat cast on their curves. Are they throwing slurves?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

probably not - theyre probably still 1/7ish and thus still curveballs. I played against Rich Hill in the Atlantic League the year he was signed - his curve is mostly 1/7 from what I've seen, and that's still a bona fide curveball. He drops his arm angle sometimes, though, and that may get him into slurve territory.

Hi Coach, thanks for the video. 1) How does a slider differ from a curve? I always thought a curveball curved right to left or left to right, but in this video are you saying a curveball curves high to low? Does a slider curve either left to right or right to left? 2) Does any of your teaching in this video change if the pitcher is instead LEFT-handed?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

curveballs are up and down. sliders side to side. doesnt matter the handedness.

@overkillblackjack2910

Жыл бұрын

@@DanBlewett Ok, interesting, thanks so much!

Hey great advice, thank you! Are you in DC?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

yes

why is it called a curve ball if it it mainly sinks?

@DanBlewett

11 ай бұрын

Google it

@Spyph

27 күн бұрын

@@DanBlewett 🤣

Mine always seems to slip out of my hand early and either float or not at all, does anyone know how I can fix it?

1. Fastball 2. Curve ball 3. Change Up 4. Slider 5. Knuckle ball 🏈 🎉🎉🎉

My Nana taught me

At what age should someone start throwing a curve or any other movement pitches similar?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

I have a video on that. Search my channel

俳優並みの男前ですね👨

Velocity question. I couldn’t find this answer anywhere. I understand you should be throwing your curveball as fast as you can, but how fast would you have to be able to throw a baseball to make it curve. For example…. Can you throw a 40mph curveball?

@albonthegoat

Жыл бұрын

They all curve. They just become ineffective curves. a very slow very slight curve just becomes a slow meatball or eephus, where how very little it curves basically won't matter.

@mramisuzuki6962

Ай бұрын

Ephesus pitch isn’t a curveball.

i thought pure down spin was a sinker and diagonal down spin was a Curve ball?

I didnt use any of those grips to throw a curve and mine had a wicked curve just saying those arent the only grips for a curve ball

You didn't mention how to actually throw it though, grips yes, but should you rotate an snap your wrist downward? Or like Bauer shows, never rotate wrist, turn it sideways and throw like fastball?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

you just throw it.

@richiecabo

Жыл бұрын

@@DanBlewett thanks coach

@standepain

2 ай бұрын

To quote Nolan Ryan on how to throw a curve "People think you twist your wrist or snap the ball but you don't." "The only difference between a fastball release and a breaking ball release is your wrist position"

question, will girls be able to throw all these throw at an even learning rate or will it be harder for girls? Btw love the video ❤

@DanBlewett

3 ай бұрын

they can learn it just the same

Get those 4 seams tumbling from 12 to 6 and watch'em flail

I know this is an old video but are you not describing more of a sinker? Even the MLB examples you show its outward curve but in the video you are explaining you do not want that?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

no

I don’t know maddux pitched 5000 innings so I don’t think it’s the breaking ball that causes the arm pain I think it’s the pitchers try to throw it just as hard as a fastball, which they shouldn’t.

@DanBlewett

Ай бұрын

guessing on causes based on one pitcher isnt a good strategy to find the cause

@michaelmiller4105

Ай бұрын

@@DanBlewett Charlie huff, Tim Wakefield I can keep going if you want. I picked maddux because based of your coaching you probably don’t know much about the sport. There’s a reason why pitcher injuries are increasing every year. Videos like this.

There are more people watching this video to learn how to throw a curveball that are not old enough to be throwing one.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

people can watch whatever they want to watch - it's a free country

I disagree about throwing the big loopy curveball, if a player wants to get in this eephus area with a curveball it just means theyll get into trouble a lot more and if they know this theyll proceed with caution

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

we all have the right to make trouble for ourselves and get shelled if we so choose

you didnt explain 12-6 or 1-7 at all.

@grpere1

2 ай бұрын

12-6 is December 6th and 1-7 is January 7th 😆

@josephfraser4317

2 ай бұрын

That is all dependent upon the way the ball is coming out of the hand of the pitcher

@SOUTHL.A.

Ай бұрын

I CONCUR..🤨

pulling down a window blind.

Where's the evidence for Your Arm Hurting more?

@josephfraser4317

2 ай бұрын

Getting around the ball and not through the ball is hard on the arm. There’s a big difference between a correct 12-6 and a little league curve

🤔Okay, but I still don't understand how the ball is curving mid-flight.🤷‍♂️

I gave up on baseball a long time ago. One reason is this: what they call a curve ball acts like a some going down a slide. Too me that would be a "slider" pitch. Then they call a ball that starts from left and goes to the right a slider. Go figure.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

thats an incredibly stupid reason to "give up" on a sport

Do you think that a 12-13 year old could start to learn a curveball?

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

could, but it's not how I would do it

@sparechainge

3 ай бұрын

Arm is gonna be done by the time ur 20😂😂

@Plasma_iguess

3 ай бұрын

@@sparechainge i hope so

whatever 2011 is

Yeah, some guys are better at curve balls, others are better slider pitchers.

"Great rite of passage for young pitchers" Me, a 25 year old: 😧

Hello, Williamsport? Yeah...you guys need to watch this video. Coach says 14, Williamsport...14! Either that, or stop trotting out messages about player safety...

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

I cant watch the LLWS

thats a sinker not a curveball

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

Lol no

@MikeHart72

Жыл бұрын

Lol no it isn’t. I can see how you might think that because of the 12-6 drop but a sinker has different movement. When I pitched, more years ago than I care to admit, a sinker was my favourite pitch. Its basically a one seam fastball….well that’s how I threw it

@stpaulisland

10 ай бұрын

To throw a sinker, you grip the ball differently. The reason is, the ball comes off the hand differently than a curve or even a fastball. By holding it differently, the rotation of the ball is a forward spin rather than a backward spin.

@MikeHart72

10 ай бұрын

@@stpaulisland A sinker doesn’t have forward spin, that’s a curve ball. A sinker is a 2 or 1 seam fastball. By 2 seam you grip the ball so 2 seams run the length of your fingers, they don’t go across the seams.

Not the way I was taught.

@DanBlewett

Жыл бұрын

which is why you're watching a video to learn new things