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How Skilled Are You in the Art of Performing?
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Succcessful
competitive athletes are highly skilled at performing. You can develop these
skills through knowledge & practice. 5 important areas impact your
ability to
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perform well. Each area
can be an "ally" or an
"enemy" to your performance.
Use the questions below to see what is helping or hurting your
performance.
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Score both the right and left questions using the scale
Never=0/ Rarely=1/Sometimes=2/ Often =3/ Usually= 4/Always=5
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HOW DO YOU HANDLE
PRESSURE?
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You do your
best riding under pressure or in competition
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You do your best riding in practice or under low stress
conditions
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Welcome challenging situations
as opportunities to build your skills and abilities
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Avoid challenging situations in order to preserve your
confidence
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TOTAL
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TOTAL
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HOW DO YOU MANAGE
EMOTIONS?
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Your are skilled at targeting
specific emotions in order to compete well.
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You
compete in whatever emotional state you happen to be in
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You set the emotional tone for
you and your horse by how you move and think
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Your horse sets the emotional tone for the way both of you feel, move & think
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TOTAL
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TOTAL
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HOW IS YOUR FOCUS?
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Your focus stays task oriented
- You are focused on what you are doing
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Your focus tends to be self oriented - You are focused on how you are doing.
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You
tend to remember your successes, especially in times of stress or when
its
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You
tend to remember your failures especially in times of stress or when its
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the most important to ride
well
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the most important to ride well
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TOTAL
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TOTAL
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HOW DO YOU REACT TO MISTAKES?
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You quickly acknowledge
mistakes, make corrections then move on
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You feel badly about mistakes and tend to berate yourself
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You encourage yourself at
times of struggle or when the ride isn't going well
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Turn against yourself when you are struggling or the ride
isn't going well
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TOTAL
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TOTAL
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HOW DO YOU PREPARE MENTALLY TO COMPETE?
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You "over
learn" the course, test,
pattern
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You have to think about where to go
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You use imagery to solidify
strategies and emotions
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You take it how it comes
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TOTAL
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TOTAL
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HOW DO YOU PREPARE PHYSICALLY TO COMPETE?
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Your clothes and
equipment are organized and ready
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You have to find and/or prepare equipment or clothing
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You meet your needs for food, water, rest,
support before competing and are
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You neglect needs for food, water, rest, support before and experience
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able to focus solely on
competing
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these needs during competition
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TOTAL
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TOTAL
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PERFORMANCE ALLIES TOTAL
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PERFORMANCE ENEMIES TOTAL
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TOTAL PERFORMER SCORE
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We hope you enjoyed Testing
Your Performer Skills Online! To view the full results of your test we
recommend you use the downloadable version available to our members -we'd be
happy to send you a copy (click link below). It will give you several
important scores and charts to help you better understand your unique
personal profile and give you valuable information to help you build and
improve your Performer Skills (We are unable to include them in the online
version due to software limitations) We also encourage you to read the
article "Competing in Horse Shows - Perfecting the Art of
Performing" we put it in our
sample article section so you can access it for free! For more assessments and information like
this - We invite you to -
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