I stood beside the wall. Rafaela yells "READY". I plant my hand on two holds. I reassure myself, this is easy, I got this. She start to count "1..... 2....". "WAIT" I said. Have I not learned anything. I realised that when I told myself "this is easy, I got this", I was not making a pathway for reflection. By this I mean when you tell yourself you can do it, you think of nothing else but that. You forget to reflect on your mistakes you've done before and how they can help or destroy you.
This is why I changed my mentality again from fixed to growth, and asked "How can I do better". My past experience rushed in. I knew exactly what to do. I looked at Rafaela and said "Climbing". My head turns to the wall. Constantly reminding myself what to do. Behind my ear she yells "CLIMB ON" We were off. Rusing throughout the grips I get to the over hang, Ideas rushing throughout my head I take a different route then usual. I did it, And kept on rushing throughout the pieces. on my last grip I gave it a big jump to the top. BAM. "TIME" I yelled. They wouldn't answer, I was scared. As the slowly brought me down. I hear then chattering. I reach the floor and my friends and hug me. Rafaela said "this is your wall you did 38 seconds." This was my all time best and best of my team I was excited to be able to have designated wall for the competion. Too bad that this wasn't it.
The competion came and i was ready. I saw the wall is dispair they had put a route on it. This means only a the "rocks" selected were to be used i was nervous. the time came and I asked myself how can I do this to the best of my ability.
"CLIMB ON" She yells. I rushed through it and came down to realises I did it in 44 seconds. I was furious, then realised why I know what I did wrong and how I can do better next time. I looked at the wall and pictured myself climbing realising more mistakes and how to improve and then they called us over they added up the time.
"JUNIORS WIN" Thats us. Oh my gosh i can't believe we won I ran straight to my team and carried everyone of them. It was one great day.
One small step for me but one huge step for Reflection.
I realised the only reason I knew what to do in both routes was because I reflected on what I did wrong before and what Ive don't right and applied to my current route. Thats what worked.
This is why I changed my mentality again from fixed to growth, and asked "How can I do better". My past experience rushed in. I knew exactly what to do. I looked at Rafaela and said "Climbing". My head turns to the wall. Constantly reminding myself what to do. Behind my ear she yells "CLIMB ON" We were off. Rusing throughout the grips I get to the over hang, Ideas rushing throughout my head I take a different route then usual. I did it, And kept on rushing throughout the pieces. on my last grip I gave it a big jump to the top. BAM. "TIME" I yelled. They wouldn't answer, I was scared. As the slowly brought me down. I hear then chattering. I reach the floor and my friends and hug me. Rafaela said "this is your wall you did 38 seconds." This was my all time best and best of my team I was excited to be able to have designated wall for the competion. Too bad that this wasn't it.
The competion came and i was ready. I saw the wall is dispair they had put a route on it. This means only a the "rocks" selected were to be used i was nervous. the time came and I asked myself how can I do this to the best of my ability.
"CLIMB ON" She yells. I rushed through it and came down to realises I did it in 44 seconds. I was furious, then realised why I know what I did wrong and how I can do better next time. I looked at the wall and pictured myself climbing realising more mistakes and how to improve and then they called us over they added up the time.
"JUNIORS WIN" Thats us. Oh my gosh i can't believe we won I ran straight to my team and carried everyone of them. It was one great day.
One small step for me but one huge step for Reflection.
I realised the only reason I knew what to do in both routes was because I reflected on what I did wrong before and what Ive don't right and applied to my current route. Thats what worked.