In this throwing yips video, you will learn how to accept and embrace the yips journey. We discuss how to battle back from the yips from a mental perspective. Peak Performance Sports, LLC helps athletes and performers improve mental skills for success in sports. We work with athletes in all sports – junior to professional – via video mental coaching … Baseball Yips Article>>
In this throwing yips video you will learn what mental blocks continue to cause the throwing yips. We discuss how to overcome these challenges to throw freely again. Peak Performance Sports, LLC helps athletes and performers improve mental skills for success in sports. We work with athletes in all sports – junior to professional – via video mental coaching from … Baseball Yips Article>>
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 throw, a throw you have made thousands of times become such a … Baseball Yips Article>>
How The Full Blown Throwing Yips Start Rick wrote to me about his 15-year-old son saying he’s always been a good multi-position player since he was very young, but now has problems with his throwing. During a tournament, for some reason out of the blue, he suddenly could not throw the ball back to the pitcher or 3rd base. “He … Baseball Yips Article>>
How Can Players Overcome The Yips? Baseball is a relatively simple game that players can complicate at times… Overthinking, over-analyzing and trying too hard can get in the way of doing certain skills that you have done since you were a little kid. Think about the act of throwing a ball… You probably started throwing objects when you were two … Baseball Yips Article>>
Throwing 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 yips or know someone who may be struggling with the yips, contact us today to learn more about our mental coaching programs … Baseball Yips Article>>
How Can Pressure Cause Throwing Problems? In our new video series, Dr. Patrick Cohn talks about the throwing yips in baseball. If you think you have the yips or know someone who may be struggling with the yips, contact us today to learn more about our mental coaching programs for baseball yips. Here’s the question Dr. Patrick Cohn answers this … Baseball Yips Article>>
Mental Strategies to Cure The Yips How do you go from dominant pitcher to a pitcher who has the yips and is anxious about pitching? This is the real life story of Lacey Waldrop, pitcher for the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fast-Pitch women’s softball league. As a junior at Florida State University, Waldrop had one of the best … Baseball Yips Article>>
Do You Have A Problem Throwing Back To The Pitcher? In “Mental Training Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your baseball psychology and mental game questions about the roots of the throwing yips in baseball and how to cope better with the yips. Visit Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your question for Dr. Cohn to answer … Baseball Yips Article>>
How Do You Know If You Have The Throwing Yips? In “Mental Training Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your sports psychology and mental training questions about what the throwing yips are in baseball and softball. Visit Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your question for Dr. Cohn to answer in his mental game videocast or podcast. … Baseball Yips Article>>
Overcoming the Throwing Yips in Baseball What do you do when one errant throw leads to another… then another… then another? More importantly, what do you think about when you make a string of throwing errors? Most likely, it gets in your head and you start thinking about what might happen on your next throw or you try to talk … Baseball 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 … Baseball Yips Article>>
Overthinking Your Throw Do you have that fear of the yips? Or maybe you have committed several throwing errors but can’t figure out why? The yips may very well be the cause. The yips happen when you take a normally unconscious action (throwing the ball) and move it into the conscious realm (thinking and analyzing throwing the ball during the … Baseball Yips Article>>
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 … Baseball Yips Article>>
Does Jon Lester Have The Yips When Throwing to First? On Tuesday’s “High Heat,” Christopher Russo suggests that Jon Lester’s issue with the yips attempting a pickoff at first base is overblown. Does he lose his grip on the ball or does he have the full blown throwing or pitching yips? For five years no one noticed Lester having trouble … Baseball Yips Article>>
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 … Baseball Yips Article>>