I hope, I don't bore you with my ongoing questions, but you C-Folks are way more understanding, helpful, know more (and are friendlier ) than the kayaking guys
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You were quite helpful with my playboat question (I'll go for the S6, by the way), now please help me with a topic I cope with since I got started:
FEAR-a feeling I have anywhere that's more than a class 2.
Perfect example: we're doing training runs in the canal (would be a class 3 when in nature). Tough I do have the skills to do what the coach tells me to do, there is a fear-like feeling, I'm afraid of something I can't really define, I hesitate, and so my strokes are not agressive and powerful enough and I really do a bad job. The same situation when rolling or in nature whitewater rapids.
I'm not really afraid of death or injuries-I do know the risk of such things in whitewater is usually less than in car driving or so. It's rather something about my instincts. My mind knows nothing awful will happen and that I'm able to run the rapid well or, if it's at the upper end of my skills, that there are enough friend to save me when swimming and there is a big quiet pool behind the rapid.
But my instincts let themselves impress by the water noise or the appearence of big waves.
A certain fear and respect is necessary and okay, but in my case it's more than that, it's getting uncomfortable and harms me to really use any skills and power I have. Sometimes I even considered to drop that whitewater thing, but thanksfully I'm too addicted to do so. It's a fear similar to being nervous before a competition or exams, just a lot more intense.
And I do lack of being agressive in the canoe, if you know what I mean.
Until now, I worked by running the rapid or maneuver anyway, though I was afraid (as long as the situation was secure, though to my own skills or friends as "guards"), but I would paddle a lot better, (and could progress faster) if I could get rid of that.
Any ideas of how to get the mental power higher?
Thank you!!!!!
insolence