YipsCheck Beat the yips

When a trained movement stops obeying, we measure where control breaks and retrain it. Clinical work for athletes with task‑specific dystonia, in the Netherlands and remotely.

Neuroscience and biomechanics for skills that hold under pressure.

I help you get rid of your yips, the involuntary jerk at impact or release. First a biomechanical analysis to find where the stroke breaks, then neuromotor retraining to rebuild it.

Between the two of us we bring neuroscience, clinical neurology and a career in professional sport to one disorder.

From the start lineto the lab bench.

I trained one movement to Olympic level. Then I spent a PhD learning what happens when Olympic‑level movements go wrong.

Born in Canada, raised on ice. I skated professionally: the Olympic Games, national records, World Cup titles. Then I went to learn how the brain works, with a research MSc and a PhD on task‑specific dystonia. Now I apply that science to performance disorders in sport and teach it at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

I know the yipsfrom the inside.

Neurologist since 2005. Golfer with the yips since a long putt on the first hole at the Rosendaelsche. One taught me how movement goes wrong. The other, what it costs.

I trained in neurology and spent my first years on Parkinson's and movement disorders at Gelre ziekenhuizen in Apeldoorn. Then the yips found me, as it had found my father, also a neurologist, and the question became personal. In 2020 I founded the Sport Dystonie Centrum and made room in the clinic for The Dutch Yips Studies, the PhD I lead with Beorn, alongside the movement‑disorder groups in Groningen and Nijmegen, the Dutch golf federation and the R&A. In 2026 thirteen international specialists reviewed our films and agreed. The yips is a dystonia, a movement disorder, not nerves.