Handle Your Competition Jitters

Handle Competition Nerves

After the last competition, you vowed to face the next one with confidence.  

Well, here you are today and that vision hasn’t come true.

You worked very hard to make changes, but you worry it’s not enough.

You are looking for a better way to handle the nausea, butterflies and shaky legs. You want to stop feeling dread before competition.

All you want is to feel calm, prepared, and excited, for competition.

You want a chance show off your true abilities.

You did everything right, then that moment hits.

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What to Do When You Are Not Happy with Your Skating

Many months ago I asked skaters and their parents to talk with me about, “What do skaters really want from their sport?”

The most difficult part of this was putting my own experience and expectations aside to really listen to what they were saying.
The danger facing any “expert” is to teach to what we think people “should” know rather than what they really want to know. Continue reading “What to Do When You Are Not Happy with Your Skating”