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>>
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>>
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 … Throwing Yips Article>>
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 … Throwing Yips Article>>