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Very interesting baseball batting article here — and all about the “myth” of the hot hand…

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Here is a truly stunning set of videos.

But it will likely seem very subtle.

I’m trying to think of watching these two videos without prior knowledge of the Inner Game of Tennis so I can give you enough to appreciate it. Plus, this is a shortened version of the whole TV program so some context is lost.

But if you pay attention it is still a gold mine.

This film was shot in 1975 and is still way ahead of most teaching/coaching we do today.

This series of two videos shows Timothy Gallwey teaching a 50+ year old obese woman to play tennis for the first time. In it, you see Gallwey calmly guide her learning (as opposed to “teaching” her with the more usual directive style).

Several of the things Gallwey says in an almost off-hand way are remarkable…

“No tennis player ever sees the ball enough.” So how does he solve this problem? How could it be applied to baseball?

“Listen to the ball hit the racket/bat.”

How does he “teach” the back hand?

How does he “teach” the serve?

For more understanding of what’s going on, get the book “The Inner Game of Tennis.”

I’d love your comments on how you might use this information in your baseball coaching or baseball training.

For more mental training programs, see BASEBALL CONFIDENCE.

Click here for an article on a great mental approach to baseball batting.

Baseball Confidence By Focusing on Approach

Get programs that teach you how to do that here….

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Dr. Tom

Here’s an exciting video in which I discuss the two keys to taking your program or yourself to the next level while we watch the Rays show how they did it last year.

* Watch on a bigger screen and in high quality at a great site I discovered… YOU TUBE (click HQ button to see in HD, OK?).

For more on how to reach your goals in hitting, pitching, defense, or any other aspect of the game, see www.baseballconfidence.com

Great stuff here from Don Slaught of Right View Pro.

Hitters, I suggest you turn off the sound and just watch the video. Put yourself into him via your imagination and FEEL what this swing feels like.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Right View Pro is a terrific software.

See more mental game programs at Baseball Confidence.

Here’s the “supplements” I use daily. I’ve felt a difference in my energy level and over all positive vibe ever since I started using them.

Here’s what Dr. Sears — a very smart and popular doctor, says about why he uses them.

Find out more at www.HeadsUpJuicePlus.com

This guy is incredible. Here’s how to extrapolate baseball training…

As you watch, imagine how he would prepare for each stunt. Loads-o-visualization no doubt.

I’m sure he goes through each move not only in his mind, but in his body before he ever makes his first move.

Amazing Stuntman - For more of the funniest videos, click here


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This youth baseball/hockey moment is brought to you by a sharp kid in Canada. A fine lesson for us all.

Here’s from today’s St. Pete Times (AP):

[Cardinals WR] Larrry Fitzgerald isn’t going to lie: He has pictured himself making that defining catch on Sunday.

“That would be great to have that kind of impact in the biggest game of my life. That’d be a phenomenal accomplishment,” he said.

“But I visualize myself always making plays. I sit around and daydream, making that tough catch on third and 2. I’m always visualizing.

“A lot of times it comes true for me.”

[and later…]

“Your Michael Jordans, your Magic Johnsons, the guys who want the ball in their hands when it’s time,” he said.

“You see a lot of guys who don’t want the pressure on them.
But look at the pressure as a privilege.”

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Pressure as a privilege.

That’s a cool and potentially very helpful way to think.

Reminds me of when Jeter told me “pressure” was fun. “It’s all just like Little League,” he said.

Yet just shifting your mindset like that isn’t often that easy.

The best way I’ve found to make a major shift in your thinking (from, say, pressure to fun or must-be-perfect to playing with passion and understanding or I’m no good to I’m unstoppable is through tapping.

In the next two days I’ll announce the time of my complimentary teleseminar on tapping.

I’ve had a lot of great questions, well over 100, so far.

But I need yours.

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Great Offer

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For a limited time I’ll give you a recording of a basic intro to tapping class if you’ll ask me a question.

Don’t ask what tapping is, though, please. I’ll tell you.

Forget about tapping and ask me about your toughest mental game challenge.

What would you like to be able to do that you can’t do right now?

What would you like to learn how to do?

Go here and ask and I’ll send you the recording.

You can ask a second question if you have a good one.

http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?af=47278

Thank you,

Tom
Tom Hanson, Ph.D.

p.s. Visualize yourself doing great things “all the time.”

And pay this email forward, please.

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What IS Tapping?

That’s the #1 question I’ve received so far.

Thank you if you send me a question, Tommy.

If you haven’t, now’s your chance.

**NOTE: There’s a long email attached to the end of this short message, PLEASE read it…**

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What is Tapping?

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I’m not going to give you a very satisfying answer right now (those that asked already got their thank you gift, a brief introductory audio and handout).

It’s a technique that powerfully (yet often subtly) facilitates the release of negative emotions… and the “installation” of positive beliefs.

So the chance to ask a question and get the first session of “Tap Your Potential” is still there.

But please don’t ask what tapping is, tell me what you’d like it to do.

Here’s the new question: What is the single biggest mental or emotional game challenge you face?

Asked other ways…What would you like to get rid of (say, a need to be perfect)? What would you like to have more of?

Go here to ask:
http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?af=47278

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Remember This…

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If you listened to that first tapping class and was underwhelmed, I understand.

I took a similar class almost 5 years ago and thought it was total b.s.

Didn’t do anything for me.

Then I met a guy who practiced it and I sort of mocked him, saying that it didn’t work.

He looked me straight in the eye, almost grabbing me by the collar, and said, “Then you haven’t really done it.”

He gave me a session and I was impressed.

Then I did a session on a young player and was blown away.

For nearly two years now I’ve practiced and learned and there’s no turning back.

If your goal was to help people would you rather have $100 or $1000?

Tapping gives me the power of having the $1000.

And it gives me moments like I had getting this email…

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After One Session…

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Tim was anxious about throwing batting practice the next day.

Tomorrow would be the first day of a fantasy camp featuring many current and past pro coaches.

Last year, his first at the camp, he’d had a melt down throwing BP.

Previously a rock solid strike thrower, a couple of bad pitches got in his head and the bottom fell out.

It was so bad another coach had to come out and finish his group of hitters.

For a pitcher to get yanked from a game is tough, but for a BP thrower to get relieved mid-group is total humiliation.

Especially with pro coaches you’d like to impress watching (Tim’s a professional teacher and coach, but not in pro baseball).

So we had time for one session, less than 30 minutes.
Tapping.

Here’s Tim’s email to me after the camp…

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Tim’s Letter

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Hey Tommy…. I apologize for not getting back to you with the batting practice report from the camp I called you about.

Well….I walked into the clubhouse the first morning and was handed an outline of the days activities. And there it was in big bold letters “BP for group number 1 and group number 2…..Tim”…I have to admit I about cr*apped myself.

So after the intial “Oh my God” feeling….I became my own suicide negotiator and talked and tapped myself off of the ledge.

As soon as the morning meetings were over we headed to the field for the group stretch. While the guys were stretching I started to get loose by playing catch with Mike Butcher the Angels pitching coach who is a buddy of mine.

After every good throw warming up I told myself “like that”
and after any throw that didn’t go where I wanted it to go I said “not that”.

Then it was moment of truth time…..Kevin Long the Yankees hitting coach positioned himself at the side of the BP roll out cage to talk to the hitters during each round…..and seeing the Yankees hitting coach there I must admit caused me to start feeling a little anxious….

But again I tapped myself down and…..I stepped up on the mound platform took a deep breath and let it go….down the middle.

Then another and another and another.

In between each pitch I was doing the hand tapping technique that you shared with me. And with every good pitch I continued re-affirming like that…..and each bad throw “not that”.

By the end of my first morning of BP several of the hitters said that they couldn’t decide who threw better BP me or Keving Long.

The first day was behind me and I was feeling incredible.

Day 2…..I was to throw to the 4th group. I used the same preparation as the day before and had the same result until the last two hitters of the final round.

That old familiar feeling started to creep in. I started to become very conscious of my nerves.

Orv Franchuk a hitting coach with the Padres started to get on me about not hitting to many bats….my anxiety started to rise…..so I stepped off the pitching platform and did some finger/hand tapping and got back up and finished off the round.

So the second day I left not feeling quite the same as the first day….but still feeling pretty good.

Day 3.….there I was again…..my name at the top of the list. First thrower of the day.

And who to my surprise did I share the field with this time….Brook Jacoby hitting coach for the Cincinnati Reds.

I have known Brook for several years because I coached his son Torrey (who is a Sophmore at Pepperdine) all 4 years of high school.

So now I start to feel that knot in the pit of my stomach.

That familiar anxious feeling starts to enter the picture.

You see last years when I got the yips….Brook is the one who came out and rescued me. And I was determined not to have that happened again.

So while I was warming up I told myself and tapped myself to hit the target. I stepped up on the platform and preceded to throw the best round of BP I have ever thrown.

In fact more than one guy from the group came up to me after and told me that I threw the best BP in the camp.

Cloud 9 Baby!

So I owe you a big debt of gratitude.

And I have to admit all of that came just from our short phone session because I didn’t have time to go threw your Yips Course that you had sent me.

But I am going to complete it right away because I want this BP success to continue right into my season.

Thank you soooooooooo much……you tapping son of a bitch! (Sorry)

My confidence has grown just from those 3 days of success and I owe it all to you!!!

Keep up the outstanding work…..I am all in!!!!

Tim Haubursin [google him for more info]

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Questions?

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So what question do you have? Try to avoid asking technical ones about tapping, but focus on what results you’d like.

I’m all about results, actual changes, than technique. I’ll teach you the techniques.

*So here’s the question(s) I’d like you to respond to again:

What is the single biggest mental or emotional game challenge you face?

Asked other ways…What would you like to get rid of (e.g., a need to be perfect)? What would you like to have more of?

Go here to ask:
http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?af=47278

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How I’ll Answer Them

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I’ll do a no cost teleseminar very soon to respond to your question.

Please forward this email to people, with a little bit of effort on their part it will be enormously valuable.

Thank you.

Tom

p.s. Ask away por favor.

http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?af=47278