Finally, the Yips Cure for Baseball Players, Golfers, and Others having trouble doing "simple" things...

"I Can't Tell You How Fun It Is to Throw Freely and Easily Again"

End Your Suffering, Frustration and Humiliation with a Powerful New Technique

Dear Friend:

If you can relate to these feelings baseball players report having about throwing (or golfers putting), this may be the most important letter you've ever read. 

	Fear
	Frustration
	Clammy Hands
	Tension
	Vice-grip chest
	Doubt
	Anguish
	Slow spinning knot in your stomache
	(and nights and days spent dreading your next yip-isode )

Imagine those feelings gone. 

Removed fast.  Painlessly.

Dr. Tom Hanson

Be they baseball yips (throwing yips -- the "throwing problem" where you can't throw a short distance or throw a strike any more) or golf putting yips, or any other kind of "choking" you may be doing; I can fix it.

Imagine: Those nervous, shaking, gut wrenching, humiliating, embarrassing, fun-wrecking feelings -- gone .

And you back playing great, and having fun.

Here's Proof...

Required Reading :  Former  Yipper Throws No Hitter (opens in new window)

 

"From 10 Walks in 2 Innings to 14 Walks in 60 Innings" Zach Honeycutt

"Hey Dr. Hanson,       My name is Zach Huneycutt and you helped me get over my bad case of the yips about a year ago. Looking back, it seems kid of humorous to think about the yips now but i do know that it is something I will never forget.   I recently finished out my junior season with the following stats as a starting pitcher: 60 IP, 6-2 record, 2.35 ERA, 53 KOs, and the most important 14 BASE ON BALLS.     In my first start on the mound as a  scared sophmore I walked at least ten batters in 2 innings that i can remember. If my dad wouldn't have found you on the internet im not sure if i would have kept playing baseball or not.   I am throwing the baseball free and easily now with no fears or phobia and I have you to thank for that. I told you i would keep in touch and i just wanted to tell you how grateful i am for everything you did for me.   My summer season starts this weekend and i will keep you updated. Once again i want to thank you for everything. Hope everytihng is going well for you.  -- Zach"

 

Emails...

Voice mails...

Notice that the first guy is pretty well cleared ("like, phenomenal is the way to put it" -- this guy had worked with other top experts before he started working with me), the second guy is in progress (notice that he gets back on track after one bad throw).  Cures don't happen in an hour or two ... but it has in some cases... typically it's a process over time.)

Another pro player, catcher...

Here's a high school catcher...

His dad...

His Mom...

You too can throw like this again...

Yips Be Gone!

Golfers , you don't have putt facing the hole, use a fishing rod-length putter, or go through some weird pre-putt routine.

Baseball Players , you don't have to double, triple or quadruple pump the ball before lobbing it a short distance.

You can get back to enjoying the game you love, play great, and not worry about choking on easy putts and throws.

"If I Were You, I'd Want to Know Who is Making This Claim Before I Invested Any More of My Time Reading..."

I'm Dr. Tom Hanson, and I've been working with athletes for the past 20 years, including the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, and hundreds of professional and amateur athletes.

My corporate clients include Microsoft, American Express, and Fannie Mae.

Golfers, you may know Dr. Bob Rotella, the top mental game coach among PGA Tour players. He was my advisor for my Ph.D. at the University of Virginia back in '91, so I practically got my Ph.D. in golf psychology.

I was the hitting coach at UVA, and a head college baseball coach for 7 years after that. I was granted tenure for my teaching and research performance as a college professor, then left academics to work more extensively with clients.

So I've been at this sports performance enhancement thing for quite some time.

"The Yips Used to Kick My Butt!"

But I admit that for most of my career I was like the other sport psychology coaches: I could talk a good game about the yips ("You're too focused on the outcome, you need to focus on the process...blah blah blah"), but I couldn't really fix it.

And I wasn't alone...

Don't you think baseball greats Rick Ankiel and Chuck Knoblaugh and golfers Johnny Miller and Bernard Langer could afford the best sport psychologists?

They could and did, but none of those guys got their problem fixed.

Standard approaches such as breathing, visualizing, "talking it through" and developing a pre-shot routine are fine coping strategies.

But "coping" is not your goal.

"Tolerating" is not your goal.

You just want to play the damn game without being terrorized by a fear of what should be the easiest part of the game!

Fortunately, 18 years of trial and error have led me to a new approach, with new results.

Since I started developing my approach to the problem, I'm happy to tell you I've had tremendous success eliminating the yips.

(note: If you have the yips I don't have to tell you that you don't just "totally forget" them for any reason. This note is for people reading who don't have the yips.)

"A Few Things You Need To Know About Your Problem..."

I'm going to explain a few things about the yips, but I'll keep it short, because...

You just want results . You just want this demon cast from your body so you can get back to playing great and having fun like you used to.

(Although the official title of my process is Yip Elimination Program -- YEP! -- the condition is so devilish I sometimes call it a Yip-sorcism.)

Keep in mind here that I can't say that what I'm about to tell you about the yips is scientific fact. I'll tell you what I believe to be true about how the yips work.

Obviously, since I'm willing to invest my time in coaching you and I don't get paid if I don't produce the results you want, I'm certain I will succeed.

So what I'm about to say can't be too far off.

Here's the deal...

"What are the Yips?"

The yips are an energy system thing. A neurological thing. Not a rational thing. As you know, you can't be talked out of it.

How many times have you heard someone say...

	"Just relax and do it, come on, it's easy."
	"What's the problem, you've done it well your whole life, why can't you just do it now?"
	"Just relax and do it, come on, it's easy."

"Oh, thank you! That's sooooooo helpful! Listen, pal, if I could do that don't you think I would?!!"

If it were a rational, higher brain (neo-cortex) issue, these comments would help you.

They don't. They typically make it worse.

Like I said, the problem is stuck in your body, in its "energy flow" -- NOT in your head.

So any form of just talking about it will not work.

(And, dispite what your teammates or playing partners say, you aren't whacko.)

Einstein, the greatest mind of the last century, chose to focus that mind on energy (see E = MC² ) because that's what the universe -- including you -- is made of.

When you decide to make a simple move, say, putt, a signal is sent from your brain down various pathways to your muscles, which, if un-interfered with, do what they're told.

With the yips, the past emotional event that left a "mark" in you is disturbing the flow of energy through our body.

So instead of a smooth, simple movement you get a spastic, seisure-like motion.

And anguish.

How You Got the Yips...

Something happened to you when you were younger that made you feel really embarrassed or humiliated.

It may have been a one-time event, or it may have been something more persistent or chronic.

It was likely related to your sport (golfers, it happened golfing, baseball players, it happened when you were playing baseball), but it may have been during some other activity.

Maybe a coach said or did something. Maybe you missed one short putt or made one bad throw at a crucial moment. Maybe (most likely) it was an experience you had with your mom or (more likely) your dad.

And it left a mark.

Look, my Ph.D is actually in physical education, I'm NOT a psychologist.

I'd like for it not to be some past event; it makes it seem so ... "psychological." (You know, the classic "childhood trauma" thing...)

But you got it somewhere, right? Something made this ridiculous thing happen to you; somehow this "demon" entered your body.

And by definition that has to be in your past.

So don't get hung up thinking I'm some shrink that is going to make you analyze your childhood and make you cry because you weren't loved the way you needed to be loved.

I'm not. (You're much more likely to have tears from laughing as we go through the process -- it's pretty funny.)

So please stay with me...

"There's a Disruption in Your Force..."

That "mark" got stuck in your body. It's an "emotion," a "disturbance," a bad memory, whatever you want to call it. But whatever you do call it, it's still in there.

But it only comes into play at certain times or when doing certain, usually "simple," things.

Sort of like having a herpes virus. It can sit in your body doing no harm, then flare up at a vulnerable time and wreak havoc.

But now that "energetic disturbance" flares up whenever you want to putt or throw. It wreaks havoc whenever you try to run a simple motor program.

You may already know what happened (the event that got you), or you may not. It doesn't matter right now. You don't have to know it to fix it.

The good news is the cure is not about going back and crying about it. It's about going back and zapping it.

You Basically Have a Phobia...

You can also think of it as a phobia. Wikipedia says a phobia...

(from the Greek φόβος "Phobos" meaning Fear ), is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject.

Let's highlight some words:

Irrational : It defies reason. Assessing the facts of the situation, you know you will not die if you putt or throw the (damn) ball.

Persistent : It isn't a one time thing. It's always there. You may be able to "trick" it every once in while, but it doesn't go away.

Fear : You are -- or at least your body acts like you are -- afraid to act, afraid to throw the ball, to putt the ball, to whatever simple thing you want to do.

Desire to Avoid it: Baseball players tell me they dread the pre-game or practice stretching, because it's the thing they do right before they start to throw. Golfers quietly want to leave themselves long first putts so they don't have to face having a meaningful short putt. That's a "desire to avoid."

If you have the yips, you essentially have a short putt phobia, or a short throw phobia.

Like a spider phobia, it is irrational. Doesn't make sense. But you can talk to a person 'til you're blue in the face and they will not let go of their fear of spiders. Even though rationally the chances of a person being hurt by a spider are very very small.

Wikipedia goes on to say that 8% to 18% of the population has a phobia. So this hardly makes you weird. It's pretty normally really.

Most golfers will have it at some point in their careers.  Jack Nicklaus, Sam Sneed, Tom Watson, Bernard Langer, Johnny Miller, are just a few pretty well-known golfers to suffer from the yips.

In baseball, great players like Steve Blass (won the final World Series game one year, couldn't throw a strike to save his life the next... never recovered), Steve Sax (hey, maybe in baseball it's a "Steve" thing), Chuck Knoblaugh (oops, there goes the Steve Theory), Mark Wohlers, and countless players you've never heard of, many because they couldn't overcome the yips.

So those are just a few thoughts about the yips. Sign up below to get my periodic "Yips Tips" coaching emails for more.

But again, it's nice to know about them, but so what? You want them gone .

"What Would it be Worth to You to Have Your Yips Gone?"

I asked that to the player that left me the voice mail before we started my program.

"I'd give you my right arm," he said, "I need my left to throw."

He wasn't being funny. That's how he felt. (Fortunately for him, I don't charge an arm or  a leg to remove yips.)

I can't answer this question for you. Answer for yourself...

Imagine playing with total confidence.

That sense of ease that you once had. Not worrying about making a simple throw or putt. Not dreading your next one. Not suffering the embarrassment. Not enduring the torment.

Imagine instead playing great. Having fun. Going to bed excited to play the next day. Looking forward to playing.

Just like the old days.

I realize that if you've got a wicked case of the yips you might not be able to imagine NOT having them. But that's okay, because...

"You Can Get Rid of the Yips... Here's How..."

My Yip Elimination Program Coaching Program (YEP) happens over the phone.

Do the simple, painless homework between calls (about 15 minutes a day will do, more is better) and you'll experience massive relief from your yips and be thoroughly enjoying yourself like the old days.

(The biggest obstacle for many players I work with is believing that the problem is gone -- so fast, and by doing such a simple thing.)

I can only take a few people at a time in this program (I may be booked up now), so please complete the form below to get the process started now.