It is often claimed that many basketball players would be more successful shooting free-throws underhanded but choose not to do so for fear of being made fun of. (A famous example of this is Wilt Chamberlain , who thought doing "granny" shots made him look silly , even though when he did use them his normally poor free throw percentage shot up.) Are there other examples where athletes in a sport don't use possibly better techniques for fear of...
Originally asked by David Bailey on Stack Exchange (sports) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
