The Red Fire is a great new tool, it measures how fast your pitcher's ball is spinning in revolutions per second and of course, a revolution is a spin. It comes in 12 inch balls, as well as 11 inch balls and in baseballs. There is a micro chip on the inside that counts the revolutions. The reading that I get on here it knows I am 40 feet, 43 feet for college, or the 60 foot, 6 inches for baseball. So you set it according to your pitching distance.
So we are looking hopefully to get numbers in the 20s revolutions per second. Go ahead and throw a fastball. She pitches her fastball and we get her reading 12.9 revolutions per second. We encourage her to spin the ball off her fingers faster. And the spin speed goes up 13.2. We record her fastball, spin speeds, work on it a few months, test her again.
You do each of your junk pitches, let's say you throw a peel drop and a roll-over drop. Well let's see which one you actually spin faster that's the one that will ultimately give you more movement. For your rise ball you may have a curled grip and a flat finger grip. Let's see which one you actually spin faster. Back hadn changeup, another example, I like very fast spin on the back hand changeup, the faster it spins, the faster the hitter thinks it's coming. So we do a little self toss drill with that.
Alright spin that back hand yourself as fast as you can 17 not bad, faster, 17.3 very good, we write that number down. She goes home and she does that while she is watching TV, we hope. Half toss, we record the back hand changeup, half toss, very nice 17.3, she had a very good tapeline, faster, scare him, 19.3 on that one. She comes through very fast, the hitter sees a hard fast snap, the hitter also sees the tight spin and she thinks that fastballs coming instead we have got a very fast spinning back hand changeup.
So the Red Fire, a great tool for measuring your spin speed.
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