Discover How to Overcome The Throwing Yips in Baseball
Mental Game Articles for Baseball and Softball Players with the Throwing Yips
The 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 see as their biggest challenge. How can such a routine …
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Using 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... right? Mystery surrounds the yips for many ball players. Players with the yips are …
How 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 doing… Overthink their mechanics… Overthink what others might think… And …
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How to Not Think about Yipping a Throw Worry about the yips, making errors, slumps and bad games are mind clutter that can affect some baseball players for an entire season. Yips, errors, slumps and bad games can create profound, intense negative images that, once these negative images take …
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How to Overcome the Yips Josh recently wrote to me about his struggles in the bullpen when catching… "I have recently struggled in, not only the bullpen, but throws to bases in practice as well as simply playing catch. Yesterday, my only struggle was in the bullpen, no problem during warm up. …
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Learn How To Overcome The Yips See the target; Hit the target... Sounds easy enough, right? Throwing a baseball is just a matter of having a catch. You have done it thousands of times... in the backyard, at picnics, during practice, warming up before a baseball game and between innings. Despite …
