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Examples of yips
yips
Dogs of all shapes and sizes greeted one another with barks and yips and sniffs.
From the thenewstribune.com
Ogle said he had seen plenty of sports psychologists and he still gets the yips.
From the smh.com.au
Like most golfers, the eyes send the wrong message to the brain and cause the yips.
From the usatoday.com
It was at the Masters in the 1960s, on the 11th green, that Alliss developed the yips.
From the independent.co.uk
For the yips of the physical variety, changing grips has proved successful.
From the latimes.com
A scientific research group is claiming Botox could be a cure for the yips.
From the fresnobee.com
The 6-foot-10 senior from nearby Winston-Salem didn't act like a player with the yips.
From the kentucky.com
For a player advertised as a puck mover, Sekera sure is prone to the yips in his own zone.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Work on your rhythm to eliminate the yips in your chipping and putting.
From the stltoday.com
- Nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts); "to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting"
- Yips, or The yips is an expression used to describe the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation in one of a number of different sports.
- The Cadwal Chronicles are a trilogy of science fiction novels by Jack Vance. The three novels are called Araminta Station, Ecce and Old Earth and Throy.
- "The Yips" is the tenth episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 54th overall. It originally aired on November 26, 2007.
- Nerves, because you have missed all those little short putts!
- This is a nervous disorder that turns a putting stroke into a twitch or a jerk and can thus destroy a players ability to putt.
- Shakiness or nervousness in making a shot.
- To miss simple putts because of nerves.
- A mental affliction that affects many sportsmen, particularly golfers and spin bowlers. It is a mindblock that can cause a player to forget the basics of his game, and in the most serious cases can force that player into early retirement
