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Summary: Too good to be true? Well, yes.
Review: Hope springs external for overcoming the yips, and this tape may do the trick if you have a very mild case, but it isn't going to do much for a severe case. Each side of the tape is identical -- a 25-minute visualization exercise that certainly can't hurt your putting. You develop a relaxation trigger that you then use on the greens to trigger a relaxation response. One major frustration for me is that you are asked to do some extremely complex visualization EXTREMELY fast. I've previously had hypnosis and have listened to the tape numerous times, but I have yet to really get the hang of it. I'm not sure why the narrator rushes through these portions, but it's mildly irritating. However, I've been using the relaxation trigger when putting with the only method that has ever cured the yips for me (i.e., putting left-handed) and have had several excellent putting performances. In short, this can't hurt -- but if you really think it's going to cure the yips, you're probably one of those dreamers who thinks a $600 driver is going to add 40 yards as well. (The author contacted me after the foregoing review originally appeared and complained that I'd been unfair. I believe that there is general confusion, perhaps even on the author's part, between the "choking" or "stress-related" yips that may occasionally strike anyone and the mysterious yips that seem to have some physical or psychological basis and that caused Sam Snead to say "Once you've had 'em, you've got 'em." The Mayo Clinic has been studying the latter form. This tape will almost surely help if you have the "choking" form, although I stand by my earlier comments. It will almost surely NOT help if you have the more mysterious form.)
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Summary: carefully designed "software"
Review: I got a copy of this tape a couple of years ago and I'm glad to see that Amazon sells it now. Given that the "author" uses NLP techniques, I've been analyzing what he does. I was a bit skeptical initially but I think this is a nice piece of technology. It shows what one can do when applying NLP principles! Thus, overcoming the yips is a good example of what Goleman would call "emotional intelligence". Buying all 4 of his tapes might be a bit overkill: start with the one that tackles the issue you want to work on most.Congratulations to Nicholas Rosa! Patrick Merlevede - co-author of "7 Steps to emotional Intelligence"
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Summary: carefully designed "software"
Review: I got a copy of this tape a couple of years ago and I'm glad to see that Amazon sells it now. Given that the "author" uses NLP techniques, I've been analyzing what he does. I was a bit skeptical initially but I think this is a nice piece of technology. It shows what one can do when applying NLP principles! Thus, overcoming the yips is a good example of what Goleman would call "emotional intelligence". Buying all 4 of his tapes might be a bit overkill: start with the one that tackles the issue you want to work on most. Congratulations to Nicholas Rosa! Patrick Merlevede - co-author of "7 Steps to emotional Intelligence"
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Summary: No more yips!
Review: I love golf and almost gave up playing. Three years of anxiety when putting. Professional golf teachers, sport psychologists, even anti-anxiety medications; the yips persisted. That is, until I listened to this tape three or four times the weekend I received it. Next time out, no more shaking, tension or perspiration. I couldn't believe it. That was four weeks ago. Haven't had the yips since, not even in tournament play. How/why this half hour tape accomplished this is still a mystery to me. As per its design, I doze off while listening to it. Obviously, I recommend it to anyone who suffers from the yips.
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