When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.
I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.
Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.
Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.
I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.
At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.
I don't have a sprinter's body.
Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.