Hi, I'm new here, and thought I'd ask for some advice on nerves.
I fairly recently got back in the saddle in a more serious way, when I began to share a horse with my mum. Last year I showed her in an in-hand class, And 1 ridden class - (the horse, not my mum!!!!!). The inhand class went Ok ish - more my fault due to lack of experience, but the ridden class was a disaster.
I felt so nervous that I nearly backed out of it all. In the individual show, Star couldn't/wouldn't pick up canter for the 2nd time. and so we were dropped from SECOND to LAST.
PROBLEM: In my minds eye, I just see a repetition of this, and even though I have worked out a plan of action, including 'rehearsing' a perfect indivdual show, the missing canter just keeps creeping into the picture, and I feel the butterflies. I can feel them now, as I type this. I really want to do this. Honest, how can I jump this obstacle I seem to have built for my self?
I fairly recently got back in the saddle in a more serious way, when I began to share a horse with my mum. Last year I showed her in an in-hand class, And 1 ridden class - (the horse, not my mum!!!!!). The inhand class went Ok ish - more my fault due to lack of experience, but the ridden class was a disaster.
I felt so nervous that I nearly backed out of it all. In the individual show, Star couldn't/wouldn't pick up canter for the 2nd time. and so we were dropped from SECOND to LAST.
PROBLEM: In my minds eye, I just see a repetition of this, and even though I have worked out a plan of action, including 'rehearsing' a perfect indivdual show, the missing canter just keeps creeping into the picture, and I feel the butterflies. I can feel them now, as I type this. I really want to do this. Honest, how can I jump this obstacle I seem to have built for my self?