How do you spit like a baseball player?
I work with baseball players all the time as an athletic trainer, and I think the way they spit is fascinating. I would like to learn how to do it.
Nothing replaces practice. Now I’m not sure what ‘effect’ your going for, distance seemed to be more important in grade school – but baseball players have a way of casually jettisoning a cord of spittle at a perfect 45° angle while keeping a steely eye transfixed upon whatever it is they’re actually doing. They’re not thinking about it – it’s just what they do; and it looks natural, instead of repulsive.
There’s a lot of way to do it, but really its just about finding something that’s comfortable and works for you; for instance: I love the way David Ortiz resets his swing, but I’d end up with a line of spittle stuck to my chin on account of my beard. Every player in know ‘loads’ on the roof of the mouth, between the teeth and the tongue to keep it separate from the chaw/chizzle/chew they keep in their bottom gums (this also affects the ‘stiff-jaw’ look many players seem to have.) After you load, get rid of it – and don’t make a big deal out of it. Again, practice – ballplayers and other folks who tend to spend a lot of time outside around men in dusty conditions are natural spitters because they need to be. It’s pretty much just clearing your mouth of debris with your tongue.
I suppose the best advice would be to start playing baseball. Softball won’t help – nobody is chewing, and there are women around. Get dirty and you’ll spit.
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You have to start with sunflower seeds.
If your only goal is to spit your own saliva like the pros, you don't need to actually chew the sunflower seeds. Simply practice spitting entire seeds as far as you can.
Place one seed on your tongue, pointed end toward your lips. Curl your tongue around the seed, creating a tunnel. Now lift your tongue slightly so your upper lip prevents the seed from flying. This way, you can build up pressure behind the seed. Once you feel like you're ready, move your lip and let the seed fly.
Once you master launching seeds, you're ready to start practicing with saliva and phlegm.
It's been my experience that 99% of the time, baseball players who are spitting are doing so because they're chewing tobacco. This gives their spit a thicker consistency and makes it more globular, and since they can't swallow tobacco spit, there is almost always a large volume of it in their mouths to be spat (try not spitting any saliva for 30 seconds -- you'll be surprised how fast it accumulates).
This perfect storm of disgustingness gives ballplayers the ability to create impressive-looking, far-flying spits that your run-of-the-mill saliva spitter just can't match.
Nothing replaces practice. Now I’m not sure what ‘effect’ your going for, distance seemed to be more important in grade school – but baseball players have a way of casually jettisoning a cord of spittle at a perfect 45° angle while keeping a steely eye transfixed upon whatever it is they’re actually doing. They’re not thinking about it – it’s just what they do; and it looks natural, instead of repulsive.
There’s a lot of way to do it, but really its just about finding something that’s comfortable and works for you; for instance: I love the way David Ortiz resets his swing, but I’d end up with a line of spittle stuck to my chin on account of my beard. Every player in know ‘loads’ on the roof of the mouth, between the teeth and the tongue to keep it separate from the chaw/chizzle/chew they keep in their bottom gums (this also affects the ‘stiff-jaw’ look many players seem to have.) After you load, get rid of it – and don’t make a big deal out of it. Again, practice – ballplayers and other folks who tend to spend a lot of time outside around men in dusty conditions are natural spitters because they need to be. It’s pretty much just clearing your mouth of debris with your tongue.
I suppose the best advice would be to start playing baseball. Softball won’t help – nobody is chewing, and there are women around. Get dirty and you’ll spit.
From someone who dips, the best way for a non-dipper to get that baseball style spit would be to place bubble gum in the front of your lip like a "pinch". Then push the saliva to the front of your mouth, tighten your lips as tight as possible, and force the spit out with your tongue, as if your spitting into a bottle.
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Step 1: Have saliva
Step 2: Spit it out