DD was warming up before a game on Saturday and her travel ball coach, who admittedly knows very little about pitching and leaves the pitchers alone for the most part, asked her to try and throw a curve ball. DD's response was that she has never thrown a curve ball and didn't know how to do it. The coaches oldest daughter helps with the team (she is a major D-1 college pitcher commit) heard my daughter say that she didn't know how to throw the curveball. She came over and showed DD the basics of it and helped her for a few minutes. She got it to move a little but nothing spectacular. However, it seemed a bit faster than the regular fastball. My suspicion was confirmed this evening when we pulled out the rev fire and sure enough, the curve ball she was throwing was averaging 2 mph (57-58) faster. I asked DD what she was doing to make it a little faster and she didn't really know. I suspect it was because her front side timing was a little better because she wasn't striding so far out due to the push just on the other side of the power line which causes her to land and stabilize and split second sooner. So, my question is, has anyone else experienced this? Or, does anyone have any idea why the speed would increase while throwing this pitch?