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Confidence
Aug. 22nd, 2020 10:37 pmConfidence is not easy for me. That's usually when I mess up because my worry keeps me vigilant.
It was also the leading cause of me being injured as a kid. My one broken bone as a child? Me telling myself "oh, you're just being scared for nothing." My dislocated arm? "You can go fast down the hill, you're good at scootering."
There are a lot of times my body is my limit. I need to err on the side of caution especially now that I'm older. This is why it took me over a year to really get my handstand and several months after I had my private lesson. Just more and more trusting that I could land correctly on my shoulders with out jamming them or slipping and hitting my head on the wall (which happened once.) Even now I have to do it in 3 steps. Get into the floor position, test my back and shoulders, take one deliberately gentle dynamic run at it and then try with full power (usually failign the first 2-3 times.)
Box jumps, however, I seem to be purely at a mental limit. Tonight I put the mats under the box to raise it up to 18.75" (I am hoping to work up to 20".) I could only complete the jump one out of every three, but the photo shows that physically there is no issue. It's frustrating to know this intellectually but not understand the mental block. It makes me wonder how to better understand when the limit is body and when it is mind.
( box jump picture. )
It was also the leading cause of me being injured as a kid. My one broken bone as a child? Me telling myself "oh, you're just being scared for nothing." My dislocated arm? "You can go fast down the hill, you're good at scootering."
There are a lot of times my body is my limit. I need to err on the side of caution especially now that I'm older. This is why it took me over a year to really get my handstand and several months after I had my private lesson. Just more and more trusting that I could land correctly on my shoulders with out jamming them or slipping and hitting my head on the wall (which happened once.) Even now I have to do it in 3 steps. Get into the floor position, test my back and shoulders, take one deliberately gentle dynamic run at it and then try with full power (usually failign the first 2-3 times.)
Box jumps, however, I seem to be purely at a mental limit. Tonight I put the mats under the box to raise it up to 18.75" (I am hoping to work up to 20".) I could only complete the jump one out of every three, but the photo shows that physically there is no issue. It's frustrating to know this intellectually but not understand the mental block. It makes me wonder how to better understand when the limit is body and when it is mind.
( box jump picture. )
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