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Are we really supposed to have sympathy for athletes who sign multi-million dollar contracts because there's pressure and stress that comes with that contract. F-ck that! SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP! Do your job or go sell cars.
Jesus saves!
Isn't the yips an illness in Darkest Dungeon? 😂
I was pretty similar to Ankiel in terms of how it turned out (ending up in the outfield with success), except I played 2nd. I went from being a really good 2nd basemen to not being able to make a throw from any position in the infield to 1st base, so I asked my coach to put me in the outfield. Inexplicably I could throw a strike from deep center, but if you asked me to throw 10 feet as an infielder I would overthrow or hit the dirt on every single one. I wish it didn't take 2 years of my high school playing time to figure out that I was better as an outfielder, because it basically took away every shred of confidence I had in my play, I went from definitely wanting to play college baseball to not being interested in the slightest out of fear of potential heartbreak. I truly hope that we find some way of working players out of the yips, then people from generations after me won't feel this overwhelming regret of not going on to the next level; whether it's college, the minor leagues, or MLB.
Bernhard Langer got the yips, real bad, with his putting, during what should have been his prime. He went through more weird putting styles and grips. As it was, he won his second Masters post yips, but given how he has continued to be a great player into his 60s, I’ve always thought he could have done so much more when he was younger, given that he was one of the early fitness freaks in golf.
I was at the playoff game where Ankiel broke the mlb record for wild pitches AND at the game 7 years later where he hit a HR in his first game with the Cards as an outfielder. The return was incredible.
I got the yips after playing with a first baseman who couldn’t pick the ball. Every ball thrown to him had to be perfect and bc of that I started overthinking my throws and now I can’t play infield anymore. Fuck that guy.
It starts as mental after making a bad play, it stays on the mind and in the second opportunity you're thinking of not doing it again rather than the regular thought..it happens again then the mental travels into the physical and disrupts the normal flow. It's the same thing as a hitter in a slump going to the plate thinking 'don't strike out" instead of solely thinking of hitting the ball. The yips is negativity overtaking the positive energy flow. Like a game where the whole team gets hot and "hitting becomes contagious" guys going up to the plate know they're going to hit the ball before they even step in, positive energy…and on the other side everyone's striking out ,confidence is gone and the negative thoughts creep in.
I remember in High School when I finally found my groove as a Varsity Baseball Player, I only was used as a pinch runner for my senior year. I had absolutely no hiccups the entire year until I misheard my third base coach yell "Go! Go!". Instead, he actually said "No! No!" and was humiliated by getting tagged out at home, ending my teams chances of a rally in the 5th. After which, I felt so fucking bad, that for almost the rest of the game, I was either in the porta john, or in the dugout completely destroyed. What made things even worse, was that I never even got chosen to pinch run for ANYBODY afterwards until the second to last game of the season. After which, obviously, I graduated and never could play Baseball again. Wish I could though…
Edit: I obviously didn't have the yips lol. It was when Made The Cut talked about how one mistake can ruin your chances of ever starting again.
Knobloch for the Yankees played second base
He went through time where he couldn't throw to first base
Overthrowing
I got the yips in 2004.. 1 wild pitch and until this day i cannot trow strikes. It still bothers me so bad.
I was playing in the youth national team and was a promising catcher but i got the yips when i was playing in front of scouts at 15 I haven’t been able to properly throw a baseball ever since. I turned into a complete different ball player and stopped playing at the highest level, every game caused so much stress and worry. When i got benched in a amateur team i knew that it was time to leave the game. Now a days my former team mates are playing ncaa baseball and one is probaly going to make his mlb debut. It is fucking depressing. I just cant throw anymore i could only lob the ball to the pitcher. I spiked so many throws it made me lose my confidence and the love i honce had for this game
I have thousands of hours of tennis under my belt I have been there with yips. Having no control of your wrists and arms in tennis that requires very fine motor skills. Your arm is staccato, lost feelings in the arm, wrist, and the movement of the swing. You start overthinking, looking over your mechanics, losing what was automatic, and thinking the problem is subconscious. When it is happening it is embarrassing, shameful and creates anxiety. It is devastating and takes all the fun out of the game and you're likely to quit with no confidence in the game. For many it is career-ending. After years of discovering my problem, I found it was not in my head. It's not bad psyche or anything to do with mental toughness. My answer was a small grade of TOS. A TOS you never notice in your daily life. Nervousness causes muscle tension that makes the symptoms of TOS worse and then you're in a bad loop with a feeling of shame, embarrassment, and anxiety losing even more motor skills. You can not breathe slowly out of that. The solutions are therapy over time with trigger point release and stretching where TOS usually are caused. There are tons of YouTube videos of this. 8 places in your body, working from your SCM and Scalenes, 1 rib to your elbows and wrists. How did I figure out? Yips from professional baseball players who solved their "mental" and yips issues with a 1 rib surgery operation for TOS, fixed just like that overnight. Why should players suddenly lose a skill that has been done millions of times before and get fixed after an operation? It only happens to people that have done the mechanics thousands of times. It is caused by straining your body to a grade of TOS. So I started releasing muscles in my neck tight SCM and Scalenes etc. Afterwards I Have not experienced yips since. I sometimes get nervous, but I don't go jelly in my arms and wrists and loose total control. I think that is the cause and could help musicians, players in golf, tennis, baseball etc, and surgeons. Psychiatrists, NLP coaches, TFT therapists etc could help, changing mechanics etc, but not solve it from the ground up. There is very little research on this and I think the professionals in white coats are not even close to fixing this problem. That is my these and I hope someone will research this. Even TOS itself is vastly misunderstood. You can have a grade of it. It is not binary. Ref: msk neurology.
6:40 are you kidding? He had to retire due to psychological issues then the Diamondbacks hired him as a mental skills coach? Is that a joke?
I dont believe the yips are mental. I think that its a repetitive trauma injury. The stress is a symptom not a cause
Steve Sax 2nd base Dodgers, committed 30 errors in 1983, fans behind 1st base wore helmets. He got past it to eventually win a gold glove
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Jon Lester didn't get the yips. The yips got Jon Lester.
I wonder if this happens to you when you are extremely good at something, for example basketball. But then you ''fake'' play at a much lower level of skill, just acting like you're not as good as you actually are. Like say you could make 10 3-pointers in a row if you wanted to. But you decided to play against a friend and ''act'' like you are bad, and you miss a bunch of shots to let them win, you purposefully miss them, close misses, but misses, either way. And so, then you go again a week from this happening, and then all of a sudden you can't make a 3-point shot, it's like you have never played basketball before. And then all of a sudden after all of this, you go at it for another time, and you can soot good all over again.
I wonder if this is similar to what has happened to these baseball players, and pool (8 & 9 Ball Pool) players as well.
So, I am thinking that a very good way to possible prevent the Yips is that, if you are a professional level athlete, like a baseball player, then always try your best mentally and physically. Because if you ever let up on your skill level and don't try hard on some nights, then this could lead to you gradually losing your form and your focus, and then snowballing into the Yips. This is my theory on why the Yips happens to some people, same logic also applies in golf, pool, even chess or cornhole. You let up on your talent, then it's literally like your brain is corresponding to this by losing memory of your precise muscle control and reflexes, which would in theory lead to, as I said, a gradual lapse in cognitive ability to precisely carry out your activity correctly. So this might be why Yips happen, my theory.
Bill Fisher had a cool record, wow. 84.3 innings without a walk, amazing.
03/11/2024, 7:41am
It's akin to aerodynamic "flutter." An athlete keeps overcorrecting and recalibrating their throwing/hitting motion until it totally destabilizes, and they have to mentally start those neurological connections all over again nearly from scratch. Too much overcorrection leads to higher and higher stress levels that just aren't worth it without a complete overhaul.