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Brainspotting & Pitchers: Coach’s Experience with “the Yips” in Batting Practice

July 7, 2013July 9, 2013 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments baseball, Batting Cage, Batting Practice, Brainspotting, Coach Throw, coach's experience, collegiate baseball, Earl Poteet, pitchers, pitching, practice, Practice Issues, Rob Polishook, sports trauma, Yips

by Earl Poteet, MSW, LCSW (Author’s Note: Although I have written two previous descriptions of Brainspotting work that I have

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Fight, Flight, FREEZE: The 7 Biggest Fears that Paralyze Athletes in Sports

March 5, 2010 Rob Polishook MA CPC 0 Comments boris becker quote "tiebreakers are 98% mental", coaching, competition, dr alan goldberg, dr. david grand, fear of injury or reinjury, fear of not being good enough, fear of not meeting expectations, fear of success, fear-of-failure, mental-game, Rob Polishook, sport-psychology-articles, tennis

ROB POLISHOOK, MA, CPC How many times have you heard the following from a coach, parent, or teammate? “If only

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The Argument for "Releasing" tension – Good or Bad?

February 6, 2010 Rob Polishook MA CPC 0 Comments Australian Open 2010 Tennis Championships, emotional release in competition, Nikolay Davydenko, Rob Polishook, roger-federer, sport-performance, sport-psychology, tennis

by Rob Polishook, M.A. The Australian Open Tennis Championships 2010 I’m still recovering from my 4:30 am live viewing of

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Coaching The Millennial Player

January 16, 2010 Rob Polishook MA CPC 0 Comments athlete development, coaching best practices, coaching developing athletes, coaching successes, coaching the millenial player, competition, great coaching, Inside the Zone, motivation, peak-performance, player as person first, Rob Polishook, self-talk, sport-performance, sports-psychology-articles, training athletes for life

by Rob Polishook, MA, CPC The Athlete is a Person First and Player Second There are three core mental-based principles

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