Performance Anxiety?

[CHOKE UK]

soulfighter,
You are honest enough with yourself to know what I am talking about.
Many people live in a state of denial.

Some of the best fights that I have had have been when I have had ab injury and therefore didnt put myself under any pressure to win.
Especially when people say things like
"you cant possibly fight in that condition"

Often you cant feel the pain until afterwards.

I remember fighting a thai match and winning,
after I'd taken a monster spinning back kick.
They are f--king powerfull kicks when delivered well.

But It all just went numb, until I walked out of the ring then the pain hit me like a slegehammer, I could hardly breath !

But everyone has days when they feel tense and nervy.
And no matter what anyone says , it makesno difference.
Conflicts can build up in these situations, even with guys you know and like !

It's a funny old game !

[CFA1]

Soulfighter,

I am a member of Tony Blauer’s PDR Team and thought I could contribute a few concepts that Tony has developed to help us all move past fear of any kind in any arena.

First of all, let me congratulate you for being man enough to engage and compete. You are not a keyboard warrior who can only talk the talk. Kudos.

Let’s look for a moment at the challenges you face. Number one, if you do suffer from asthma, you need to be sure that you have taken al the proper precautions and have medical clearances to compete. I suffer from the disease myself, and all too well the horror of not being able to breathe. I haven’t had a serious episode in years, but please make sure your meds are up to date and the Doc has cleared you for competition. (Sorry if I’m sounding like an old man here, but I’m sure I’m old enough to be your Father so please excuse the Parental tone if you will.)

Next let’s look at what Coach Blauer calls Performance Enhancement Psychology. In order to keep this post manageable, I’m not going to go into detail, but here is some food for thought, compliments of T.B. himself from the PDR Manual:

“To consider, evaluate, plan and proceed, you must understand the difference between “capacity” and “potential”. What you can do is your capacity. What you would like to be able to do is your potential. But, at the end of the day, you can only do as much as you can do.

Reflect on this expression: “You’ll never know how much you can do until you try to do more than you can.” In training, assess your capacity, recognize your potential as greater, and create realistic goals so that you can experience success regularly and you will be on your way to self-mastery. But do not fixate on your potential.” End Quote.

Look at your ‘problem’ as a way to improve within your capacity. One quick suggestion might be to recreate the event (We call this Simulation and Replication) and isolate the elements you need to work on. For instance, you could begin by working out on skill sets or what we call ‘attack specific’ move under little pressure at first. Next you may want to see how you react first running wind sprints and then going back to that same isolated moment to see how your body/mind is responding. Remember to work in manageable increments, so that you are always experiencing success. As your capacity builds through better breath control, better tactical solutions, less self-intimidation, your confidence will build as your actual capacity increases.

Your next competition could then be viewed as a way to ‘test’ your training so that you are now concentrating more on evaluating your performance rather than judging your performance.

The bottom line is that you are intimidating yourself and that's really where you have to start to solve the problem.

You might want to log on to www.tonyblauer.com and check out his articles on the online education area of the web site.

If you want to explore more about Performance Enhancement you can pick up the audiotape for a few bucks. I would recommend all three audios, but that’s your call.

I hope this made sense and helped you in some way.

Best of Luck,

Michael Suyematsu/PDR Coach

[Tom Yum]

But how do you stop 'intimidating' yourself?

Before I fight, I get into a ritualistic gag where I run to the bathroom, gag for a few minutes on nerves and butterflies. The good thing is that when I'm done gagging (or puking) I feel alot more confident and can take/throw good shots without hesitation.

Does anybody else know what I'm talking about?

[shirleycooper]

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