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Confidence help

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elpolloloco
Posts: 31 - Karma: 10
Hey it's my second year of freestyle and I really like it. I decided that this year I was going to get really good and just try stuff. It was going really well for me and I was learning a lot until about 2 weeks ago. My confidence was high so i decided to just bomb into a pretty big jump without any previous experience with the jump. I overshot really badly and my feet hurt for like 2 weeks when I would walk around. Now I have no lingering injuries but I have really bad butterlies( or whatever you want to call it but a pit in my stomach) whenever I am riding into ANY feature including easy flat boxes that I know I could do with my eyes closed! It really sucks and is making skiing really stressfull and not fun for me. If any of you have suggestions it would be greatly appreciated and +k. Thanks
Feb 6 2011 10:38PM
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peyton
Posts: 1475 - Karma: 1,062
have fun! be confident. you are more likely to hurt yourself if you are worried about hurting yourself.. dont put that kinda energy out there. stay positive! some say skiing is 70% mental. most of the time people hurt themselves on the small stuff so you cant always be worried about hurting yourself
Feb 6 2011 11:07PM
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T_orageskiier
Posts: 580 - Karma: 13
ski with friends who are just out having a good time and of a similar skill level. This helps me alot because you just end up doing stuff that you wouldn't do alone. When you get into the flow of things and your adrenaline gets pumping the nerves arn't as bad. This doesnt mean they go away completely though.
Feb 6 2011 11:10PM
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Sklar
Posts: 8864 - Karma: 31,612
deep breath out
say to yourself "fuck it, go time"
send it
Feb 6 2011 11:13PM
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terror.bear
Posts: 162 - Karma: 30
go find your balls... they're somewhere at the bottom of that jump.
Feb 6 2011 11:34PM
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[creative]
Posts: 539 - Karma: 128
i always tell myself -whats your favorite thing to do? skiing thats right and if thats all you wanna do and you wanna get better hit the damn rail. and when i dont wanna do an urban rail i tell myself- you know your goona go home and beat yourself up for not hitting it plus you dont wanna be the loser who didnt hit it. in short your not goona get better unless you do it..
Feb 6 2011 11:46PM
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PON3
Posts: 3817 - Karma: 783
just dont let other people get in your head
Feb 6 2011 11:59PM
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poluhasuper
Posts: 599 - Karma: 13
you need to hit that feature you wrecked on and defeat it
do it with a sword
dominate it
bondage it
rape it
no
cuddling
after.
just
A bang
away.
Feb 7 2011 12:01AM
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taktak767
Posts: 98 - Karma: 13

hey dude, i dont mean to sound like a dick, but what you did is just dumb.

just promise yourself that that won't happen again because you will speed check it a few times before you start throwing gnarly maneuvers. if you get the right speed, you wont get hurt that easily.

good luck bro. be smart.
Feb 7 2011 8:18AM
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BenWhit
Posts: 4654 - Karma: 3,257
truth. go hit that jump.
Feb 7 2011 9:12AM
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mosherpe
Posts: 6 - Karma: 10
The best way to build confidence for large features is to start small. You'll feel the most confident and comfortable going off big jumps if you can stomp the landing on a smaller jump 100% of the time. If you feel like you're not at the level where you should try to do something like going off a huge jump, then you're probably not.
Feb 7 2011 2:05PM
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Z-Juice
Posts: 3151 - Karma: 1,504
I don't really see why kids think it's cool or whatever to just hit big jumps. If you don't know what you're doing than an injury is bound to happen. Start of small get your tricks down then go slowly progress to taking them bigger from there.
Feb 7 2011 2:18PM
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chicken
Posts: 6843 - Karma: 2,121
first take a deep breath... then try to push your nuts back out of your vagina.
Feb 7 2011 3:36PM
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Crehm
Posts: 951 - Karma: 842
you just have to get back on that horse dude
Feb 7 2011 3:54PM
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elpolloloco
Posts: 31 - Karma: 10
Thanks to everybody for they're comments they are all being taken into consideration. And I wasn't being an idiot and hitting a jump that I obviously couldn't do, the problem was the conditions had changed from the day before and I neglected to take note of the speed of the snow, hence overshoot. But thanks to everyone, this really helped. Plus K!!!!!!!
Feb 7 2011 6:30PM
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StompinStraights
Posts: 136 - Karma: 32

Self motivation. The fear is only in your head! Just go kill it when your at a park, afterbang everything, and you'll be like, "woa im the shit."

Confidence is everything haha.

Feb 7 2011 6:38PM
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theater.thug
Posts: 441 - Karma: 671
The same thing happened to me after I crashed really hard on an urban rail. Its just a mental block. If you were hitting that jump the day before you overshot it with no problems, you can clearly do it again. You just need to not think about the crash and think about the times when you made it and you'll be fine.
Feb 7 2011 6:44PM
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