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Performance Anxiety Part 3 - Why We Get Nervous Before Breaking Battles and How to Handle It

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Performance Anxiety Part 3 - Why We Get Nervous Before Breaking Battles and How to Handle It

"The pressure of competition can pep up and improve an individual's performance or damage it. For most of us, competition is associated with feeling alert and ready, yet we may also experience apprehension, sweating palms or worry about how we will perform. If we can find out why this happens, how we can prevent the ill-effects and harness the positive aspects, then we should be able to improve performance." (Woods, 1998)

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Performance Anxiety Part 2 - How Does Motivation Affect Anxiety in Breaking Battles?

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Performance Anxiety Part 2 - How Does Motivation Affect Anxiety in Breaking Battles?

When I was studying Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, I undertook a project to learn about performance anxiety and investigate what strategies breakers can implement for controlling anxiety prior to competitions. This blog is part 2 of my literature review from that project.

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How I Learned the Importance of Empathy

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How I Learned the Importance of Empathy

I started breaking in 1997, the same year that I began studying Linguistics at Edinburgh University. Breaking has taken me all over the world, teaching dance classes, performing in and choreographing theatre shows as well as competing in, judging and organising competitions.

This seems like an unlikely career for someone who spent half of her first year of primary school as an asthmatic inpatient at Yorkhill Children’s Hospital in Glasgow.


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