Learn Mental Strategies to Overcome the Yips Cycle
Do you struggle with your control when throwing or pitching? Do you feel you are not in control of your throwing arm? Learn mental game strategies to overcome the yips and throw freely again. Start today by downloading a Free Throwing Yips Report>>
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Breaking the Yips Cycle Audio and Workbook program helps ball players learn how to free up their throwing. The yips can take all the fun out of your ball game.
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Break the Yips Cycle
Learn 8 mental strategies to break the yips cycle. Download our FREE report. Do you throw accurately in practice, but lose control in games? Learn how to overcome the throwing yips! Download my free baseball yips report today and learn about:
- Why the yips are mental and not physical.
- How to identify when you have the throwing yips.
- How the yips cycle keeps your stuck in bad throwing.
- 8 top mental strategies to break out of the yips cycle.
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How Do You Know You Have the Yips?
If you can throw relaxed and accurate in practice, but throw with a lot of tension and poor control in games, good chance you have the throwing yips. The yips can cause players to suddenly lose full control of their throwing accuracy or freeze. The result is wild pitches, inability to throw to second base or back to the pitcher, or not being able to throw out the runner at first base.
Most baseball players panic when they have the throwing yips–only because they think their mechanics have left them. But the reality is that the yips are mental and have nothing to do with faulty mechanics…
If your mechanics are solid in practice or when throwing in the dugout, but suddenly change during a game, this is not a physical problem! The yips mostly affect baseball players who are filled with fear and worry. If this sounds like you, you worry too much about the outcome or results.
If your mechanics are solid in practice or when throwing in the dugout, but suddenly change during a game, this is not a physical problem! The yips mostly affect baseball players who are filled with fear and worry. If this sounds like you, you worry too much about the outcome or results.
Baseball Yips Articles
- How to Bounce Back From the Yips in BaseballMcWilliams Gets a Brand New Start in San Diego What is the most feared four-letter word in baseball? The answer is YIPS! The yips have ended the careers of many baseball players. Players who were once All-Stars have … Throwing Yips Article>>
- How Confidence Affects Your Ability to Accurately ThrowThe Throwing Yips Are in Your Mind Don’t say the dirty 4 letter word… That is how most ballplayers feel about saying the word, “Yips.” When ballplayers mention the word “yips,” this sets in motion the very thing ballplayers … Throwing Yips Article>>
- How Daniel Bard Overcame The YipsUsing Your Mind to Beat the Yip The YIPS! My baseball career is over now. Have you ever wondered if the yips are a career-ending phenomenon? After all, once you have the yips, you always have the yips… … Throwing Yips Article>>
- Why Over Thinking Leads to Throwing ProblemsHow to Throw Intuitively One challenge for ball players with the throwing yips is getting caught up in a cycle of over thinking. I think it starts the yips cycle. Ball plays will: Overthink what their arm is … Throwing Yips Article>>
Baseball Yips Videos
- Baseball Players’ Fears And Throwing ProblemsCommon Fears For Ball Players With Throwing Yips In our Sessions With Doc video series, Dr. Patrick Cohn talks about his philosophy about the yips cycle. If you think you have the yips or know someone who may … Throwing Yips Article>>
- Catchers Who Alter Throwing MechanicsThrowing Problems in Baseball In our new baseball and softball mental game video, Dr. Cohn discusses why some ball players go to a safe throw in games but throw freely in practice. If you think you have the … Throwing Yips Article>>
- Solutions For The Throwing YipsDoes Changing Mechanics Help The Yips? Next week, we’ll have copied of a new program for ball players with throwing problems called, “Breaking The Yips Cycle: Mental Strategies To Improve Confidence And Throw Freely Again.” For now, in … Throwing Yips Article>>
- How Do The Yips Start in Baseball?Where Do The Yips Come From? In our new video series, Dr. Patrick Cohn talks about his philosophy about the yips cycle. If you think you have the yips or know someone who may be struggling with the … Throwing Yips Article>>