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Well then, I stand corrected. If what you say is true, then I know even less about slow pitch softball than I had originally thought. And that's really saying something because I thought I knew NOTHING about it.i've told you before that i throw a slider in slowpitch... with a forehand release... I've followed weeknight ace since he started posting and I know he gets what he says he gets... just last night I had 2 people from the opposing team telling me about how my pitch starts out aimed right at them and curves in and hits the mat... i have umpires estimate that I get about 18 inches of movement... and it's all with what you would call yawed bullet spin... i don't blame you for being skeptical because very few pitchers know about it... but you can believe it's true... I've been throwing this pitch for 30 years... so how ridiculous is that?
I do not understand how the gravitational pull when the ball is coming down from it's arc does not overtake any other movement that is being attempted. I would've thought that even a knuckleball, and assuming it had zero rotation giving it the full knuckleball effect, would be overtaken by gravity.
There's not much else to say except to repeat myself, if what you say is true, then I am dead wrong about it. It seems hard to fathom that a ball being pitched in slow pitch, first being thrown up high and then it falling with gravity can have more so much movement. It sounds like your pitched ball has more movement than a lot of fastpitch pitchers balls.
WiLD53, do you play on one of the big time slow pitch teams? Just like in men's fastpitch, I know there are slow pitch teams with giant sponsors who not only fly their team around the country but, also pay the better players a lot of cash. A LOT of cash. You mentioned that not too many other pitchers know these tricks that you do, I would think you'd be pretty valuable to one of those big sponsors with your ability to make the ball dance so much and get outs.