Who can actually throw a ball properly?

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No problems here.

I'm dyspraxic and have a visual impairment, so I can't throw or catch well at all. I was also useless at sports and was bullied for this throughout my schooling by both my peers and teachers!

I couldn't throw very well when I was little but I got better as I got older. I had to keep working at it and my mother had me to occupational therapy so that helped. My throwing has improved through out my teen years but I still cant throw as far as other good softball players. I cannot throw the ball to the catcher from the outfield.


I remember back in 4th grade, few kids in track gave me s**t about how I threw. They said I have long arms so I should be able to throw far. Length of arms has nothing to do with how far you can throw.

I suck in sports though. I don't respond fast enough but I know it takes practice to get better. I got better in softball when I played.

i never liked any games with balls. i was always bad at it and the other players had always got angry at me. man, i was convinced to play soccer today. i don't feel like doing it, but i always give up easily when someone is convincing me about something. i agreed only under condition that whenever i felt like to stop i could just sit and watch. frustrating. why can't we just go somewhere and have a cappuccino ?

I was never good at throwing balls, or catching. My instinct whenever someone threw a ball at me, was to run. Especially if it was a big ball. I couldnt see anything fun about things flying at my head when I knew I wasnt going to be able to catch it and protect myself.

I THROW fine, it is CATCHING I have a problem with!

I can neither throw a ball (I don't have hands strong enough to do it) nor catch it well. I have a grudge against my mother that it was not until when I was in high school when she decided to arrange a fake sick leave from a doctor for me. But after all how could she know that problems encountered by me during P.E. lessons were caused by dyspraxia, not simply by my idleness and normal lack of talent in sport that can happen to everybody. I am sure that there wasn't anybody in my school who was as clumsy and poor at sport as I.

I tried to throw just like our teacher had showed us but it didn't help.

Btw, a story about a twisted finger. I remember that once when I was 11 and I was in my 4th grade we were throwing a ball to each other during our P.E. lesson and suddenly a ball hit me on my finger. I almost couldn't move with it and in that time I was almost sure it was broken but in spite of that conviction I was too proud to admit there was something wrong about my finger and I suffered in silence for about 2 weeks I was simply too proud to say that I was hurt.

I can throw and catch quite well... But I have been involved with sport my whole life. My ability took some time to develop but I believe that Aspies can succeed at sport if they apply themselves and perfect the techniques involved.

Yes, fine. I never had any of the motor clumsiness associated with AS.

I think that's something... I can eventually learn to control my movements. But it takes forever... and you need to be shown exactly what you are supposed to do.... perhaps not even shown... somehow you have to feel it deep down and acquire muscle memory for it.

I can see how others wanted me to throw... but I can't draw a connection between what I am visually seeing to how I am moving my hands.

Heh, reminds me of the same problems I have socially.

Can't throw, except that stupid underarm thing where the ball arcs high. If I try overarm, I just throw the damn thing straight into the ground, or wildly far away from me. My underarms are pretty accurate now, though. Close enough that the person I'm aiming for can catch the ball, anyway. I can catch if the ball comes in within a certain area, but outside of that I can't manage it. Basically if it's going to come up short, infront of me or a little bit to either side, I can manage, but I can't do overshot balls or anything far out to either side.
The coordingation thing is interesting. I'm a musician (or at least used to be), and I could never process using both hands together to play piano, but I play trumpet really well (only have to process one hand), and a lot of very specific movements with fingers only I do well. Can't dance for toffee, my legs and arms end up in completely the wrong places, and what people consider odd for a musician, I'm utterly unable to stay in time. I've been wondering if that's my own need for accuracy. When you watch ballroom on TV, I can see that the dancers aren't as precisely on the beat as I'd want to be, but they just keep going. I feel so uncomfortable not getting it exactly right that I get frustrated and have to stop.

Oh, try getting a black lab or a collie. They're all OCD, so, once you've taught them how to retreive a ball, every meter you can throw it equals an extra second's peace. Believe me, I can pitch with the best of them. Having a black lab also taught me to carry something close to my own weight, run, roll, jump, jog, and watch where I put my feet; all of this happened by force of circumstances that start with 'ridiculous' and end with 'weird'. These animals are psychotic. It's like they're MDMA-crazed ravers. You know that song that goes 'can't stop raving'? There's a black lab in a nutshell. They're not stupid, it's just they're so dizzy with their own hormones to think most of the time. If you can get them to sit still, they can be incredibly intelligent, but 'if' is the key word. Sometimes you have yell at them and smack them a little bit to bring their oxytocin levels down enough to teach them anything, which you'll find happens a lot more when you're having a good time with them than when you're doing anything serious. To tell you the truth, I think they'd work well as a therapy, the walking headaches.

Anyway, the way that you throw is, as your arm arcs, allow the ball to roll toward the tips of your fingers, and, at a key time, you allow your fingers to act as a springboard to send the ball flying. It doesn't work just to know it: practice. You know you're getting close to having it right if the ball is rolling off the tips of your fingers as you try to make the release, and all you need at that point is a little fine-tuning. You have to learn at that point to keep the tips a little bent, which requires extensive and time-consuming fine-motor training. What I've found works is to sandwich the middle-finger between your first and third finger in such a way as to keep it bent in a slight arc, but it's too stiff to leave any spring if you're doing it consciously. As you make your release, your fingers should spread apart, which is, again, unnecessary to do consciously because it should happen as a result of the mechanics of your hand combined with fine motor training that is developed rather than learned.

For shorter, more accuracy-minded throws, you use the movement of your wrist to make it roll up on the backswing, rather than in the throwing arc. There's an important distinction between a pitch and a throw. In a throw, you don't have a full arc and use mainly your wrist in an undramatic movement.

I can throw and catch very well. As a child I loved the feeling of hurling a ball (accurately and with fine depth perception, mind you), and especially of catching those red rubber school balls that we used in kickball games at recess. I loved the feeling of the ball slamming into me as I caught it and wrapped my arms around it. So satisfying. 'Course, I'm weird

i cant really throw a baseball with any accuracy, but if the balls bigger, like say basketball im pretty good at making jump shots, im the white larry bird understand?

WHen I was small, i could not play any sports, was afriad the ball would hit me (first time playing baskettball the ball hit me on the head, i was at a friends house and cryed, did not play sports again for years)

Later, around 4th grade, neghboorhood kids started wanting to play kickball, i was good at that, fast runner, good kicker. We started playing baseball with the older kids, and i had a very hard time making contact, let alone throwing, an older kid taught me how to do both, so i could play. The more I practiced, the better I got, we played football, (i could not catch or throw this thing, took a while to learn, practiced while playing).

In my teen years I was good at sports, we played alot, but after a while, i started sitting out, or was not asked to play, cause around this time everyone started to see me as weird and started ditchin me, but if it were not for them, i never woulda learned how to play, let alone how to throw, catch, shoot ect....

A ball no, I throw like a girl...I'm much better with rocks though...skipping on water, hitting bottles and such...I have fairly decent aim.