Overcoming The Yips Cycle Do you fear making a throwing error? Have the yips made you apprehensive to take the field and lowered your overall confidence? The yips can affect baseball players of all ability levels. For example, the yips have altered how Chicago Cub starting pitcher Jon Lester plays the game. Lester has 127 wins over the course of his 10-year MLB career and has been pretty … [Read more...]
Change Your Focus to Beat The Yips
Matt Garza And The Yips Ssssshhh… Don’t talk about it as if that solution has ever helped any baseball player who is battling the yips. Not talking about the yips means not admitting that it is an issue. Not admitting to the problem of the yips prevents baseball players from seeking solutions. So rather than admitting to having the yips, most baseball players deny its existence and hope it … [Read more...]
Ryan Zimmerman’s Throwing Yips
The Throwing Yips in Baseball Ryan Zimmerman had a well-documented case of the throwing yips… It is clear to see that Ryan Zimmerman has the throwing yips. He gets these balls hit directly towards him and as soon as he goes to throw them they are too wide, they hit the ground, or the other player can’t attempt to catch it because it is all over the place. During routine plays he is expected … [Read more...]
Face The Throwing Yips Head On
How Can You Move Past The Yips? Although the yips are most commonly associated with golf putting or chipping, the problem is now becoming more known across the sporting world. Currently, the yips have come to media attention that baseball pitchers are suffering from the throwing yips as well. Pitchers are faced with a tremendous amount of pressure, particularly when they try to pick off … [Read more...]
Why Do The Yips Only Come in Games?
Can You Throw Freely in Games? One big sign you have the throwing yips is when you can throw freely in practice or BP and lose control of your throwing action in games. So you can practice your throwing in warm up or the bullpen easily with full control, but why does your throwing control change when your get on the mound in a game situation? You obviously change your approach when you are … [Read more...]
Do You Have The Throwing Yips?
How Do You Know if You Have The Yips? Not every baseball player will get the throwing yips during his career. However, baseball players will have ups and downs during their career or experience a throwing slump, which may not be caused by the yips. How do you know you have the throwing yips and you are not in a temporary slump? First, if you lose a bit of control with your throwing, you should … [Read more...]
What Are The Throwing Yips?
The Throwing Yips in Baseball What are the throwing yips in baseball or softball? The throwing yips are another variety of the “yips.” I have worked with many players who had problems with the golf yips and the throwing yips. The throwing yips, although rare in baseball, are super hard to shake because the players stay stuck in a “yips cycle.” When you have the throwing yips, you simply … [Read more...]
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