Yips

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they caught it before a- they had to use the, the Y word with Yips.

You know what I mean?

He was 26 of 34 today.

So Olivia, I want to read another book from your National Parks series.

What should I read? Off Limits Love in Shenandoah, Tenor Willits Gets the Yips, or Maple Mayhem in Indiana Dunes.

What do you recommend?

Well, I'm going to do something that you may find obnoxious, but what sort of story are you looking for? Because Off-Livet's Love in Shenandoah has the trope that many people love, which is the brother's best friend, which is very, very fun.

It can almost be a little bit painful at times as you're like, oh, they like each other and they just can't admit it.

There's some good tension there.

Tanner Willits Gets the Yips is a baseball rom-com.

So he's a professional baseball player and it's short.

Mm-hmm.

As it pertains to mental health, going through, I've had kids go through YIPS situations.

I've had kids go through-

Mm-hmm

Every time you pick up that club or go to that distance away from the hole, putting out two, three feet, your brain instantly says, "Oh, I recognize this." And that's when you feel uptight, scared, afraid, anxious, tense, and it feels really difficult.

[upbeat music] My guest today is James Hymers, and you are a psychologist who specializes in the yips and the person behind Cure for the Yips.

And we are here to talk about that age-old problem, the yips.

So thank you for being on the show.

A guy I helped recently came to see me at my golf course.

We did some online stuff, and then I took him out on the course.

I've, I've got a little video on my, um, Instagram channel, Cure For The Yips, and you see him.

When he was first done, it took him seven go...

Uh, so-

You know Yips.

You know Yips, of course.

Nate Tice from Yahoo Sports came out with an article, and the premise of it is is that May is not the primary problem with the Patriots right now within their offense.

Pretty much everybody outside of him deserves more blame.

that's living in his brain right now.

I had no idea that you could get the Yips parallel parking.

I'm definitely going to have to look into that.

It makes me very nervous with my future parallel park.

the Patriots won this game last year.

He's like a baseball player with the Yips right now.

Right, right, or Knobloch.

Yeah, Knobloch at second or something.

Okay.

The very first exercise when I work with a new student, and I d- and I do this for all my students, not just my Yips students or my mental game, even my swing mechanics, short game mechanics, putting mechanic students.

I have everybody do a simple exercise.

I started doing it very, I started doing this at age 10.