Comments on: Cheap Seats Daily: Remember High School Wrestling? Remember the Titans’ QB? Would Hypnotism Help DeShawn Stevenson Remember How to Shoot FTs? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/06/18/cheap-seats-daily-remember-high-school-wrestling-remember-the-titans-qb-would-hypnotism-help-deshawn-stevenson-remember-how-to-shoot-fts/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:41:41 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: TomHandy http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/06/18/cheap-seats-daily-remember-high-school-wrestling-remember-the-titans-qb-would-hypnotism-help-deshawn-stevenson-remember-how-to-shoot-fts/comment-page-1/#comment-602688 TomHandy Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:42:35 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=24740#comment-602688 Just to follow up - seriously - professional athletes are, at least some of the time, willing to pump god knows what into their veins and asses for even the slightest performance gain. Whatever "baggage" hynotism comes with it surely isn't as bad as having your balls shrink or developing bacne..... yet he hasn't been able to find a single NBA player willing to take on some hypnotism baggage to increase their free throw percentage even by 5-10%? Just to follow up - seriously - professional athletes are, at least some of the time, willing to pump god knows what into their veins and asses for even the slightest performance gain. Whatever "baggage" hynotism comes with it surely isn't as bad as having your balls shrink or developing bacne..... yet he hasn't been able to find a single NBA player willing to take on some hypnotism baggage to increase their free throw percentage even by 5-10%?

]]> By: TomHandy http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/06/18/cheap-seats-daily-remember-high-school-wrestling-remember-the-titans-qb-would-hypnotism-help-deshawn-stevenson-remember-how-to-shoot-fts/comment-page-1/#comment-602685 TomHandy Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:40:35 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=24740#comment-602685 I'm always with you Dave. I'm always with you Dave.

]]> By: Dave McKenna http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/06/18/cheap-seats-daily-remember-high-school-wrestling-remember-the-titans-qb-would-hypnotism-help-deshawn-stevenson-remember-how-to-shoot-fts/comment-page-1/#comment-602651 Dave McKenna Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:06:07 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=24740#comment-602651 TomH: i'm in both camps! i think if hypnotism worked more people would use it, AND i'd be afraid to use hypnotism! but dwight howard's using something, right? You with me TomH? TomH: i'm in both camps! i think if hypnotism worked more people would use it, AND i'd be afraid to use hypnotism! but dwight howard's using something, right? You with me TomH?

]]> By: TomHandy http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/06/18/cheap-seats-daily-remember-high-school-wrestling-remember-the-titans-qb-would-hypnotism-help-deshawn-stevenson-remember-how-to-shoot-fts/comment-page-1/#comment-602648 TomHandy Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:00:51 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=24740#comment-602648 Right, hypnosis would definitely help, but the one chance he had to help a group of NBA players was derailed because they "backed out". And athletes don't do it because of "baggage" associated with it? Maybe the truth is that hypnosis (at least as claimed here, like being able to do something like dramatically improve someone's freethrow shooting) is BS? I'm sorry, but really - if hypnosis even had a chance of significantly improving something like freethrow shooting, you don't think an NBA team paying a guy like Dwight Howard millions of dollars wouldn't have tried it out already? More on hypnosis here: http://www.skepdic.com/hypnosis.html Right, hypnosis would definitely help, but the one chance he had to help a group of NBA players was derailed because they "backed out". And athletes don't do it because of "baggage" associated with it?

Maybe the truth is that hypnosis (at least as claimed here, like being able to do something like dramatically improve someone's freethrow shooting) is BS?

I'm sorry, but really - if hypnosis even had a chance of significantly improving something like freethrow shooting, you don't think an NBA team paying a guy like Dwight Howard millions of dollars wouldn't have tried it out already?

More on hypnosis here: http://www.skepdic.com/hypnosis.html

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