‘Pressure is a Privilege’: Inside Boyd Martin’s By The Minute Webinar on Competition Anxiety and Nerves

You’re about to start your dressage test and it starts to rain. Before you even finish trotting down the first long side of the arena, the judge rings the bell. After what you believe to be a beautiful trot down centerline, you halt, salute, look the judge in the eye, and watch as they say to their scribe: “Four”.

At this point, as three-time Olympian Boyd Martin illustrated in Tuesday night’s By The Minute webinar on handling competition anxiety and nerves, “this is where the true champions can kind of roll up their sleeves, grit their teeth, pick themselves up, and keep going.”

Boyd holds a wealth of knowledge on battling the nerves and anxiety that come with the high level of performance demanded by our sport, and at the top of his list of advice was to embrace the fact that “pressure is an absolute privilege”.

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*Article written by: Allie Heninger *