Teaching pro feed “ yips”

[teachingprotx]

weirdest thing happened the other day . My first clinic of the morning on my normal court with the same group I’ve been teaching for years . As I fed the fist ball of class all of the sudden it was like I totally forgot how to feed a ball ? Then my hand started to shake for some odd reason , then the feeds got worse. Then I explained to my clients that I hurt my hand ( a lie ) to cover up my awful attempt to feed a normal ball series 3 forehands going acrosa the baseline . I’ve been teaching for 20 years there about and it’s never happened to me. After about 2 long excruciating minutes of embarrassing myself it corrected itself .. no problems since . But now fast forward to this morning the yips started to creep out a bit . I got it back after a few feeds . But still . What in the world could this be , hopefully it’s just a phase .. I spoke to some of my fellow teachings pros and they said its happened to them quite a lot . But for me never .. even if my game is OFF. I’ve always been able to feed great , no questions asked . But now .... anyone else has or have at this awful yips thing happen when first starting your first clinic of the day ??

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

weirdest thing happened the other day . My first clinic of the morning on my normal court with the same group I’ve been teaching for years . As I fed the fist ball of class all of the sudden it was like I totally forgot how to feed a ball ? Then my hand started to shake for some odd reason , then the feeds got worse. Then I explained to my clients that I hurt my hand ( a lie ) to cover up my awful attempt to feed a normal ball series 3 forehands going acrosa the baseline . I’ve been teaching for 20 years there about and it’s never happened to me. After about 2 long excruciating minutes of embarrassing myself it corrected itself .. no problems since . But now fast forward to this morning the yips started to creep out a bit . I got it back after a few feeds . But still . What in the world could this be , hopefully it’s just a phase .. I spoke to some of my fellow teachings pros and they said its happened to them quite a lot . But for me never .. even if my game is OFF. I’ve always been able to feed great , no questions asked . But now .... anyone else has or have at this awful yips thing happen when first starting your first clinic of the day ??

This actually doesn't sound like, say, serving yips, which are likely mental. Yours actually sound physiological.

Not to sound alarmist but you might want to get checked out by your doctor.

 

[rogerroger917]

Shaking hands weird. Go see a doc.

 

[toby55555]

Could well be mental, I got this in archery years ago where my hand started to shake as I sighted the target centre. They call that 'gold fever'. Gave up the sport, no other activity was affected in the slightest.
In theory the workaround in archery would be to adjust the sights so that aiming just above gold will hit gold but not ideal.
Maybe you could choke up the handle for a while?

 

[TennisCJC]

sounds like an anxiety attack. deep relaxing breaths when it happens and I believe it will pass in a few days or weeks.

 

[sureshs]

weirdest thing happened the other day . My first clinic of the morning on my normal court with the same group I’ve been teaching for years . As I fed the fist ball of class all of the sudden it was like I totally forgot how to feed a ball ? Then my hand started to shake for some odd reason , then the feeds got worse. Then I explained to my clients that I hurt my hand ( a lie ) to cover up my awful attempt to feed a normal ball series 3 forehands going acrosa the baseline . I’ve been teaching for 20 years there about and it’s never happened to me. After about 2 long excruciating minutes of embarrassing myself it corrected itself .. no problems since . But now fast forward to this morning the yips started to creep out a bit . I got it back after a few feeds . But still . What in the world could this be , hopefully it’s just a phase .. I spoke to some of my fellow teachings pros and they said its happened to them quite a lot . But for me never .. even if my game is OFF. I’ve always been able to feed great , no questions asked . But now .... anyone else has or have at this awful yips thing happen when first starting your first clinic of the day ??

I have posted many times about this. I am not a teaching pro but I have difficulty feeding balls for a rally for quite a long time once I start hitting. It goes away by itself. Normal play is not impacted at all.

Yips is due to failure of fine motor control.

 

[Rubens]

Check your grip.