Got the Yips? Tired of Suffering? The "Yips Be Gone" Formula Could be for You.
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"Had I not found you, I would have ended up either cut, quit, or worse: a regular student!"
Dr. Hanson,
I’m not sure I ever mentioned how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to work with you. It’s been sometime since the culmination of my pitching career at the University of Nebraska however, I still feel indebted towards you.
Had I not found you, I would have ended up either cut, quit, or worse (a regular student! We called them NARP’s- “Non-Athletic-Regular-Persons”) I am so thankful to have had a successful senior season and no regrets about my college athletic career (other than not finding you sooner).
The head coach at Nebraska now, Darin Erstad, refers pitchers or players who struggle with the yips as I did during those embarrassing, nightmarish years. He says “Talk to Freeman, ask him how he did it.”
Undoubtedly, my teammates remember me as the guy who tapped his chest while pitching however, most of them had seen me during my rough times and thought twice about telling me “just relax man…you’ve got this.”
I tell anybody and everybody about you and my story. I just had my old catcher who now coaches at [DI School] contact me and ask about you and your program. I still use your breathing/energy techniques. I used them often during my preparation for the MCAT and medical school admissions process which proved to be a very stressful time.
I have now been accepted into medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and will continue to use your techniques. You gave me a lifelong gift, and for that I am grateful. Thanks for everything Dr. Hanson.”
The Yips Can be Overcome...
The first key is to understand the mechanisms involved in having the yips -- how the yips happen. I have a model of how they work I've come to believe explain the yips pretty well that includes seeing the yips as a conditioned response. This model drives the process I use to help people suffering from the yips re-condition themselves so they can get back to having fun doing whatever they want to do.
Baseball Yips
"I am a catcher and can't throw the ball back to the pitcher or around the horn after a strike 3 with no one on base. What I have to do is lob the ball back to the pitcher which worked in high school. However, once I got to college I was yelled at and scrutinized for not throwing it back hard enough. So now when I go to lob it back my arm freezes for about 3 seconds and it looks really funny (which of course I get made fun of for)."
Golfing Yips
"In my putting stroke, my right hand takes over, jerks, yips, I feel the tension up the right arm and across my front chest. This has been going on for years. I feel it started when I was a in my 30's, but I remember even as a junior golfer getting yippy sometimes. I have adapted by using a claw grip, etc.,but I would like to putt normally with both hands on the putter."
Everything Yips
"I have the yips making sales cold calls. I get to the point where I'm pretty much paralyzed and won't even pick up the phone. Even when I do, I can't think on the phone. I blurt out a bunch of salesy gunk and get through the call with palpitations."
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and others who have succeeded with the Yips Be Gone Formula
Yes, the yips are real and you are not alone. See just some of people people struggling with yips who have been to this site before you by clicking the link to the right and opening the Excel file. You may be blown away...
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