Is there such thing as a gyro ball?

Question

Japaneaze pitch...

Answer 1

Gyroball emphysema is the name given to a unique baseball pitch purported to be used by players in Japan. The pitch was developed by a Japanese scientist, Ryutaro Himeno, and a baseball instructor, Kazushi Tezuka, who used computer simulations to create a new style of delivery intended to reduce stress on the pitcher. They published their work in a book, currently available only in Japan, whose title is roughly translated as, The Secret of the Miracle Pitch.

Tezuka got the idea "in 1995, when he found an American toy in a Japanese store. It is called the X-Zylo Ultra, and its use of a gyroscope – a device that uses inertia to balance itself – allows it to fly more than 500 feet when thrown."

Amid many conflicting claims, Tezuka says the gyroball has been misunderstood.
The Secret of the Miracle Pitch, the book written about the gyroball by Ryutaro Himeno and Kazushi Tezuka.According to Himeno and Tezuka, a gyroball is thrown so that, at the point of release, instead of having the pitcher's arm move inwards towards the body (the standard method used in the United States), the pitcher rotates his arm so that it moves away from his body, toward 3rd base for a right-handed pitcher and toward 1st base for a left-handed pitcher.

However, the technique to throwing the gyroball is all in the legs, not in the unique grip of the baseball. Kazushi Tezuka is an instructor at the Beta Endorphin baseball dojo in Tokyo, Japan. "This," says Tezuka, as he grabs his thigh, "is the most important part of throwing the gyroball. It has nothing to do with the hands."

The unusual method of delivery creates a bullet-like spin on the ball with the axis of spin in line with the direction of the throw, similar to the way an american football is thrown. According to Tezuka, the pitch, if thrown correctly, is meant to fly straight like a fastball. In baseball, most pitches are thrown with backspin, like the fastball, or with a more forward spinning motion, like the curveball and the slider....

Answer 2

Yes it is a kind of reverse screw-ball.
Matzuzaka does not throw it but some pitchers do.

By the way shouldn't this be in baseball and not cycling?

Answer 3

A Gyro ball is what you get when you do a endo and your feet stay clipped in, and the cross bar gets you just right.
And I hate that when it hapens.

Answer 4

I have a gyro ball used for hand excerise. Available at

www.dynaflex-intl.com

hope this is what you are looking for.

I bought mine at American Eagle Outfitters in the local mall for $20

Answer 5

Yes, it is very famous in Japan. This one man made it from a idea of a spiriling plastic thin curcular figure. It's a splitter, curveball, fastball etc. All of this came up because Daisakue Matsuka ( Dice-K) came to America to play in Major leagues when he was playing Pro-baseball in Japan.

Answer 6

Yes, it is basically a version of the screwball, which is very seldomly used because of the stress it puts on a pitchers arm. It is basically has the reverse motion and path of a curveball.

Answer 7

Yes, but it's very hard to do on a bike.

Answer 8

please post in the proper category
this is Cycling