Mettlebird gives young athletes a two-minute mental rep for the exact moment they’re in — the slump, the butterflies, the missed free throw on loop. Short, age-appropriate, and built from a real sport-psych database, not generic pep talks.
Built as a supplement to professional sport-psych care — never a substitute.
What's happening
Ages 13–15 · Travel baseball
Athlete types…
“I left two runners on in the first inning and now I’m thinking about every pitch.”
Matched protocol
Refocus cue before the next inning
A 90-second reset that walks the athlete from the missed pitch back to the next pitch. Built for in-game, between-innings.
1Name the loop — say it out loud, once.
2Reset with a 4-count breath + grip cue.
3Pick one pitch plan. Throw it to the catcher, not the past.
≈ 2 minutes Logged to the practice log
How it works
A short loop, not a long course.
The product is built for the moment an athlete is in — not for a Saturday-afternoon seminar. Three steps, two minutes, one rep.
01
Name it
The athlete types or taps what they’re dealing with — a slump, a moment, a feeling. No login to coach, no essay to write.
02
Match it
Mettlebird picks from a sport-psych database tagged by sport, age, and the specific trigger. Same engine, different age band.
03
Run the rep
A two-to-five minute exercise the athlete can actually finish before warm-ups. The rep gets logged to the practice log.
The protocol
Four families of reps, picked for the moment.
Every protocol on Mettlebird belongs to a small set of families, each designed for a different lane in an athlete’s day. The protocol that gets matched to a 10-year-old before a travel tryout is not the one matched to a senior walking onto a state-final field.
Breathing resets
before warm-ups, between innings, after a substitution
Reframing drills
after a bad outing, mid-slump, post-loss
Confidence rehearsal
the night before a tryout or showcase
Cue + focus scripts
in-game, between points, at the line
The database is the moat
Tagged tight, so “am I on this app or a different one?” doesn’t come up.
Every protocol is tagged on the dimensions that actually matter for sport-psych. The same match engine serves the 10-year-old’s first travel tryout and the senior heading into a state final — because the same engine knows which tag set to consult.
Sport
Age band
Position
Competitive level
Trigger
Setting
Time available
Butterflies before a rivalry game
In a hitting slump — strikes and chases
Missed free throws on loop
Freeze after a coach’s tough critique
Lights-out in practice, quiet in games
Pre-tryout jitters the night before
For coaches and parents
Optional visibility, with the athlete holding the keys.
Coaches and parents can opt in to a high-level view of what an athlete is practicing between sessions — which protocols, which triggers, how often. Nothing raw, nothing identifying. The athlete grants it; the athlete revokes it.
By default, private
The athlete’s log is theirs. Adult accounts aren’t on the same screen as a 12-year-old’s check-in.
Built as supplement, not substitute
If a tag cluster suggests a serious issue, Mettlebird nudges toward a sport psychologist. We are not the responder — we are the warmup.
Drawn from the literature
Protocols are rooted in sport-psych — the breathing, the reframe, the cue script — not generic life-coach copy.
Same engine, two cohorts
The database supports a 10-year-old’s first travel tryout and a senior’s state final from the same protocol catalogue, age-tagged.
Important: Mettlebird is a supplement to professional sport-psych care, never a substitute. It will not, and is not designed to, diagnose, treat, or replace the care of a licensed clinician. When a protocol set indicates the athlete needs more, Mettlebird surfaces that.
Asked + answered
The questions a coach or parent asks in week one.
Early cohort
Help us build the protocol library that earns its place on the team.
We're onboarding a small group of coaches, sport parents, and junior athletes to shape the first version. If that's you, send a note and tell us what sport, what age, what keeps showing up between the ears.