Focused to Frazzled

*Sigh* So tonight I went in to tumble set on having an amazing night and blowing mike away with my sweet skills. However, sneaky sneaky mike had 3 more girls come work on their tumbling while I had my private. He wasn't really coaching them, just had them around so I felt some pressure. It worked. After warming up pretty handsprings on the tramp as the girls trickled in I went from focused to frazzled. Drills that I've hit hundreds of times were getting sloppy and ugly. After a half hour of this Mike looked at me and asked "Why are you letting them get to you like this? Do you think I did this on accident?" Then he proceeded to explain "This is what it's going to be like and you have to hit your shit anyway. Stop letting them get to you and do your stuff. You know how to do these drills and that's all they are...drills. So get them done." He later said "You're going to have days like this when you can't hit dick but you have to go back and work the basics. You have a handspring it's just working your timing. It's going to happen. You're going to walk in here one dy saying 'I have a hanspring' and just start hitting them. You'll see."
So as frustrated as I am that things didn't go the way I wanted I realize that I grew mentally and had to actually practice putting the blinders on instead of just thinking about it and talking about it. So here's to prettier tumbling and a weekend of keeping the horse blinders on. And here's to concentrating on building my building.