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Level Up Your Mental Game (Part II) | Level Up - Season Two
Join Brian Aart and Team Disc Craft on the disc golf network as they continue their exploration of the mental game in Level Up: Season Two, Part II. This episode is a follow-up to their initial discussion on the mental aspect of disc golf, delving deeper into topics such as The Yips, a phenomenon where athletes experience extreme anxiety while performing simple tasks. From the sports psychology world to the disc golf community, Brian Aart examines the concept of The Yips and its connection to performance anxiety, drawing from insights from medical professionals and sports psychologists. Fans will also get to hear about fan-submitted questions and gain valuable insights into how to improve their mental game. With a focus on understanding individualized approaches to managing stress and anxiety in disc golf, Brian Aart aims to help viewers level up their mental game and perform at their best.
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what's up everybody Brian aart here with Team disc craft and the disc golf Network and you're watching another episode of level up today we are doing a followup of our initial episode that we shot in season 1 on the mental game let's get into it before we jump into fan submitted questions about the mental game I want to talk first about a hot button Topic in the disc golf world as of late and that's the concept of The Yips and this is not something that is isolated in the disc golf world this is something that we've been studying for the past 40 years in the sports psychology world and essentially The Yips is where some of the most simple tasks in sport give a player extreme feelings of anxiety and they can't consistently make this happen in baseball we've seen second basemen lose their ability completely to throw to first base literally blowing the ball into the stands in disc golf a lot of times this happens on the putting green where players within tap in distance completely airball the basket and are left completely confused about what happened it used to just be thought that The Yips and messing up something very simple very routinely uh came from performance anxiety and just simply being afraid of failure but now uh some medical professionals are saying that in some rare conditions there could be something called a focal dystonia that actually causes certain parts of the body to spasm uh when you're trying to execute something in the sport that you play they even say that musicians can get something similar as well The Yips is not a one-size fits-all deal and I think it's very individualized to the player and uh what they have going on but with that said I believe that a lot of cases of the Yip still are just from performance anxiety and where does that come from um when you read what other sports psychologists have to say about this topic a lot of times it comes down to the same thing they call it a catastrophic event that causes a very deep emotion a very undesired emotion in the player and in the future if they find themselves in a similar position they're afraid of that happening again and feeling those emotions and that's when they try to...
