These are the drills we use to teach a deadly rise ball. Once you’ve moved past the learning phase and found your rhythm, take ownership of your progression. Select the specific drills that help you lock in your spin and stick with those. We prioritize quality over quantity; focus on the reps that get results so you can stay efficient and purposeful with your training.
Watch this before starting the rest of the progressions for curve, rise, and screw to better understand how to properly use your fingers for better spin!
In this video, we cover the different ways to grip the ball when throwing rise, curve, and screw. Watch this before proceeding to the spin drills!
In this video, we start our riseball warmup progression with spins, and go over how to get true rise spin by staying inside the ball.
The hardest part about throwing a rise is keeping your hand inside the ball. This is our go-to drill to help isolate and feel this unnatural position.
Is your riseball not working the way you want it to? This video covers some of the most common mistakes, how to fix them, and what to focus on during your arm circle warm-up!
Here we demonstrate what your arm and body position should look like for riseball, before moving back and throwing full. It’s best to get this down before your full pitch.
Throwing at 75% is a great way to feel out your pitch and movements! Specifically for rise, it’s a great time to check and make sure you’re not leaning or forcing your arm.
After following our riseball progression, you’re ready to throw full at 100%. Like with any pitch, we want to maintain what we worked on in the progression leading up to this point!
Spin is everything and only our fingers can can spin the ball. You can increase your spin is to improve your dexterity and mind-body connection with your fingers with these 2 drills.
Spin is king, and only our fingers can spin the ball. If we want them to continuously work they way we want and expect them to work, we need to make sure we take care of them!
These riseball spinners are one of the greatest tools to really feel your spin. You can also use a lined ball to see the spin, but we both like how much you can feel it with the half ball. The spinners will help you focus on getting the right and tightest spin! A great tool to learn, as you get immediate feedback from your spin.