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Charles Barkley has long been known for having some of the worst yips in his golf swing ever, yet now it appears the NBA hall of famer has fixed his swing and cured his golf swing yips! In this video we’ll review the science of the yips (there’s more than you’d think) and review what was...
The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch—not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as “the Yips.
Feared and dismissed in equal proportion, the yips were once endowed with an almost mythical status. Previously an ailment exclusive to golfers, in recent years participants from sports as varied as snooker and basketball have been diagnosed with the condition.
This book introduces the breakthrough concept of STSD (Sport Traumatic Stress Disorder). Grand and Goldberg have discovered that STSDs are the cause of most significant performance problems.
Almost every golfer knows the feeling. Minutes after a picture-perfect drive down the fairway, a cascade of inexplicable missed putts leads to a disappointing triple bogey. Golfers’ lapses in play sometimes are blamed on a mysterious twitching condition called “the yips.
Some get over it; some are never the same.
It’s called the yips, and it’s a sudden inability to play. I had to find my way out of it.
The yips are a nasty ailment. They—along with the shanks—can appear out of nowhere and absolutely derail a golfer’s otherwise solid game. And worst of all, no one is safe from their wrath.
Out in the chalk circle, my vision became tunneled, my stomach tied in knots, and I felt like I couldn’t hear anything but my own racing thoughts.
A former collegiate softball player talks about her struggles with mental health and the Yips during her career.
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