"Stage-fright"

[Rotten Head Fok]

IMO what happened to Showmanship ? I think you (anyone) need to play to your audience, not at the price of losing your concentration. I think you want to excite the people watching and seperate yourself from the judges. Have fun and keep going to competitions, you'll get over it, I know you will Kaos666!

[Little Dragon]

Just remember,when your on the stage/mat or whatever..just concitrate on the surface your on.Just think of it you just practicing for that event.Wing it and eventually you'll start getting into it and have fun =D

 

Good luck!!

[vertigo]

Ah.. I kind of have/had/whatever this same problem when going through my katas. We ran through what would occur during our test (almost exactly) a few times before we actually did, and it always felt weird knowing people were watching you... kinda like a fish in a bowl?

 

Anyways, I only seemed to have trouble when I started moving towards or facing where the rest of the club was sitting. Then it felt weird.. I just tried to focus my eyes through them though, to a point on the wall (a technique I acquired from hs choir performances )... that seemed to work.

 

An unfortunate side effect of this (at least on me) is when I try not to pay attention to my surrounding environment, I really can't think at all (reminds me of playing hs basketball.. I could never hear anything coming from the stands when I was on the court)... I just went through my entire test, and I cannot remember a single time I thought consciously or made an adjustment... and I don't feel I tested as well as I could have, partly due to this... any suggestions on how to focus w/o focusing?? (as contradictory as that is)