All Track People Katie Needs Hurdle HELP QUICK

[disneydance]

Ok so I'm doing track and all and I have hurdle fear but I want to get over the hurdles SO BADLY but my brain is saying NOOOOO... I'm been trying to just concure the fear so I run straight towards it and think I'm gonna do it this time one nano second before I jump my brain says STOP you cant do this and I run straight into the hurdle... So my coach is trying to help me get over it and so shes been having me jump over string which is the same height as the hurdle... I can do that fine but this she says ok good job go to the hurdle now and I do that and I freak out a nano second before its a mental promblem or something thats been forming for almost 5 years... I'm just trying to overcome it but my brain just wont let me I'm terified and I my friends are getting fusterated with me since its scaring me to death I just cant do it. So do you have any tips for me I want to do this so badly but my brain just says no my coach says not to think about it but when ever she says that I think about it more and I will freak out on the string HELP thanks you all for the help

 

[disneydance]

bumping this up anyone ?????

 

[PurpleDucky]

LOL
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[Cassidy]

I hate hurdles.
Im in track, and im doing hurdles.
Im not so good, but im ok.

Don't think NOOO.
Think about how good it will feel after you do it! =]

 

[SBubba18]

I ran hurdles for track. I had to quit track though.

It took me soooo long to get my nerves up to jump them. I'm scared of them. What I did, was i set the hurdles down all the way and just kept jumping them into i felt confortable and set them up higher. I just kept on doing that and I got to be really good at them.

 

[Axel]

take your mind off of what you're doing. When I'm throwing discus, I have to stop and not think about what I'm doing, I just have to let my body go through the motions that it knows so well (I've been throwing for 5 years).

So, when I get in the circle I sing songs in french, I say my ABC's (and on days when I'm really nervous, I try and say them backwards), I'll hum a simple tune to myself, do basic math (this is how I got to be so good at multiplication).

Just think of somthing like that and go. Concentrate only on that song or rhyme or whatever and let your body do the rest.

 

[DisneyTeen2592]

I don't do hurdles, but I do high jump and at first, I had the same problem. I just kept on practicing until I wasn't afraid of hitting the bar any longer. Just try and tell yourself that no matter what, your going to make it over and usually with that mindset, you go over perfectly!