fear and preporation for a movement

we all get that fear when we are faced with a new movement, but what is this fear based on? It is the bodies natural defence system to avoid us hurting our selves. that part is obvious. The next thing i beleive needs to be answered is, why am i scared?
Is it because of height the movement is being performed at? if it the fact its a new movement? or maybe its the 'hype' people have put about the movement. One such movement that has hype is the cat pass armjump at imax which I recently was looking at and i was thinking why am i scared of it? It wasn't the height because i was doing it at the low end. It wasnt the fact I wasn't sure if i could make the distance, because i easily could, it was the hyp behind it, other people say its hard so i thoought the same, then i realised i could do it easily. I then did it but i was still scared and consecently landed it badly, but i know understand better how to overcome certain mental barries.

All i had to do was find out why im scared, then fix my fear.

There are many other ways of tackling fear. depending why you are scared. If you are scared of the drop, then practice simalar movements when height isn't an issue. another method that can be used for all types of fear is visulisation and also checking surfaces. If you can realistically visulise your self doing a movement, this is a skill that you gain through practice, if you can visulise it then you can do it. Checking surfaces removes fear because it reasures you won't slip etc which removes some of the potential risk and there for you will be less scared.

Even though these things work the only way to be able to overcome fear is confidence, how do you gain confidence? practice. put your self in situations that scare you slightly, things that are slightly out of your comfort zone, then make them comfortable, this is useful progression.


There are so many things that i could say about fear, and the preporation for movements, but everybody is different, but i can give you a simple method.

1. work out what you are scared of
2. access whether this fear has a valid basis
3. prove to your mind that your body can do it
4. find some where else to practice the movement
5. practice, practice and practice, set the movement to your memory
   
6. then let your body take over from your mind, push the fear to the back and let your body complete the movement.

i hope this helps people, certainly helped me focus on ideas.