One thrower. Every age, every speed.

The gap in the market

If you coached more than one kind of player, you needed more than one ball thrower. Short throwers gave you slow, controllable deliveries for juniors. Long ones gave you the pace serious batters need. So clubs and families bought both — and the long ones were the real problem: powerful, but genuinely hard for a parent to control. Feeding a ten-year-old with a thrower built for professionals is how practice turns into duck-and-cover.

The obvious question was why nobody had made one arm that did the whole range safely. So our founder — a cricket enthusiast, not a manufacturer — set out to design it.

Designed through COVID, patented after

The lockdown years gave us the time to do it properly. The result was RapidArm: an all-in-one thrower whose blade slides and locks with steel screws through four settings, so the same arm feeds a junior at gentle pace and a first-grade batter at 160 kph. The moulded cup grips the ball the way a bowler's fingers do, and releases cleanly — which is what makes it easy enough for a parent to use well on their first evening in the nets. The design is patented.

A year in the hands of coaches

We didn't rush it to market. The first production run went out to coaches around Australia and stayed there for a year. We watched how they used it, listened to what annoyed them, talked to the players facing it — and changed the arm accordingly. Only once that feedback was designed in did we commit to commercial quantities. The version you can buy today is the one those coaches signed off on.

From club nets to international cricket

Word travelled quickly. RapidArm has been used in the Big Bash League and by players from the Australian, English and New Zealand set-ups, alongside the club coaches and parents it was designed for in the first place. It's now sold in multiple countries — direct from Australia, and through partner stores in the United Kingdom and India.

The goal hasn't changed since the first prototype: one arm, in a kit bag, that gives anybody the ability to bowl properly at somebody else.

Who makes it

RapidArm is designed and sold by TechSports Australia, based in Queensland. Every new arm ships with a 12-month warranty and a replaceable cup, and you can reach a human at info@techsports.com.au.