Using Your Mind to Beat the Yips 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 baffled by their cause and how to overcome … Throwing Yips Article>>
How to Overcome The Throwing Yips Routines make playing baseball much easier. Imagine if you had to think about how to hold a ball… Or your stance in the batter’s box… Or the act of throwing a ball… If you had to think of every detail of every act throughout a baseball game, you would become mentally overloaded and exhausted. … Throwing Yips Article>>
Overcoming Fear From The Yips The throwing yips is no doubt the biggest fear of any baseball players and the most frustrating experience for players who can’t seem to break free of the yips. The yips doesn’t just affect your throws, it messes with your head. Many questions circulate in your mind when you have a case of the yips: … Throwing Yips Article>>
Moving Past Mistakes in Baseball There are so many baseball players affected by the yips (even though you may feel that you are the only one who can’t consistently make accurate throws). If you were to google the “yips,” you will find that it affects many different athletes and games-men: Can you relate to the following experience? In LSU’s Game … Throwing Yips Article>>
Ankiel’s Loss Of Control Throwing Cardinals pitcher Rick Ankiel throws five wild pitches in the bottom of the third inning against the Braves in 2000. Ankiel was a pitcher with the Cardinals from 1999 until 2004, until he lost his ability to throw strikes without a problem. In 2001 he walked 25 batters and threw five wild pitches in just … Throwing Yips Article>>
Why Do The Yips Happen in Games? During the first game of the College World series game LSU pitcher, Jared Poche, had the yips. Two wild throws to first base seemed to set Poche off and it all went downhill from there, even his teammates started acting worse. “It was a total collapse on a big stage,” LSU head coach … Throwing Yips Article>>