" I can't believe I was ever intimidated by ..."

         I can't believe I was ever intimidated by competition.  Being intimidated by competition use to really make me doubt myself and my skills.  I would go places to compete and find myself  not being able to do to the best of my ability because I would  get psyched out by watching my competitors before me perform. Being psyched out by my competitors was the worst feeling in the world. Even while competing the thoughts of  the competitors performance plays over and over in your head like a movie and it knocks you off your own performance.  When this happens I usually ended up not doing so well because I have my mind on others performances.  After a while of not doing well I finally took competition by a challenge.  Making my competition a challenge was the best thing that ever happened to me. I started thinking of my competitors as someone I needed to beat, well I had to beat rather than someone who intimidates me. I would still watch them before I went but this time I would just watch them to see what they did wrong or not strong enough. I would do this so that when I went out there I would show the judges how it is suppose to be done and what a better technique I had. Now my competition never intimidates me and never will.