[ROLEPLAY] Confidence.

Confidence.

 

If someone tells you that Rome wasn't built in a day, believe them. That's the one message i want to put out to anyone interested in riding dressage, i know that it has taken me months to get to where I am and I'm proud to awknowledge how far I've come. I have achieved such highs and after riding this month's test I can finally say I'm enjoying it, but that doesn't mean it came without its own set of issues.

 

This month I struggled with getting into my head, and who can blame me? I had to focus on not just learning a level four dressage test, but also preparing for a possible slolympic bid in showjumping and the dog and pony show. Somewhere along the lines i started to shake at the idea of having to sit down and do my dressage test, worried that everything would go wrong and that the sky would fall right on me and ruin my ride. I can be a perfectionist so this isn't abnormal for me, but it is a cycle i'm hoping to break as when you get this high up in the test level you don't have much time for nerves. And it was a long process of trying to rebuild the confidence that I had last month when I scored highest in dressage, I had to pretend i wasn't riding in front of my teacher and I had to remind myself that i'm here for a reason, you don't ride fourth level dressage on accident.

 

So I had to find my groove, both mentally and literally. This meant I needed some new music to ride to, as my calming classical wasn't building me up in a way that was helping me with my confidence. So I dug deep into my repour of music, and thought there was no better hype music than songs used on the hit ballroom dancing show 'Strictly Come Dancing' which is very popular where I live. It helps me connect when I see just how confident the dancers look when the music hits them just right.

 

And hey ho, guess it worked out! Me and Swan got a 92% on our dressage test! Now we have to rock on Saturday and well, I don't believe in manifestation but I do hope we do well!

 

see yall soon with a blog about that,

as always, more to come

 

Crowe!

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