my child hood dream was destroyd by a fellow swimer

[tinie]

:( when i was young i wanted to be a mermaid sad i know but people saw the cocnection with swimmin it was the only sport i was good at. in 1995 i came back to live in englad and join a local club there was another girl in my class that swam for the same club we were sttod up in an assbmble and the deputy head siad "who knows mabe we will see theres 2 swimmin for britan in the futuer " i felt soo proud id always wanted to swim but when the assembly was over the girl turnd round to me and said " no offence but i dont think you will ever swim for britan i dont think u hav wat it takes "

ever since that day iv put my self down and i carnt gat out of the habit she ruind my child hood dream but i alwasy wanted to proov her wrong but i dont know how to pick my self out of the habit of puttin my self down HELP if u can plz this happend when i was 10 im now 16 :confused:

[Bootie]

Tinie, always ignore that type of person, if you have a dream and think it is attainable don't let anybody get in your way! The other girl seems to have won the mind game but what are you like in the pool?

[Chris]

At 10 there is no way of knowing if you will ever swim for Britain because you are too young. Swimmers peak at different times, the fastest swimmers in my age group when I was 10 no longer swim anymore. When you swim turn that hurt into aggression and think how good it will be when you make the GB team and send that girl a signed photo of yourself. People will always try and stand in the way of your dreams, thats life.

[Taz]

Tinie: there is a girl in my club and she is just the same she made me so down and whenever i raced her she would always say to me before we got on the block you better let me win and i always did until one day i worked out she was jelous and i stood up to her and now i always beet her so dont listen to the poop that she is telling you because im sure whatever you put your mind to you can do it.

[super_fish88]

There was a girl in my club like that. We were really close with our times in every event, in most 100/200m events we were only milliseconds apart. And every time she won she rubbed it in so much, telling me how rubbish i was and that i'd never be able to beat her. I talked to my best friend in the club and she said i should just ignore her and be the best i could be. So that's exactly what i did. Now, 2 years later, i've realised that her putting me down didn't make me any worse or make me try less it just made me want to give all i had in every training session and race so that i could show her how good i really am.

[Westlife310188]

We did this relaxation thing at school. It taught us to put a coating round the outside of our body so when someone said something negative it bounced straight off us and we ignored it.
Also if you tell yourself you cannot do something your body will accept you can't and you will never do it. Now before a race i always think positively and it works for me. Good luck.

[super_fish88]

The relaxation thing sounds cool :)

[Katie]

Super fish I am amaaaaaaazed at ur number of posts u have to be the fastest increasing poster ever!

[super_fish88]

i know! i can't believe i've only been here a couple of weeks and have already posted over 100 times!

[Phil Tanner]

Careful, though. I can think of at least one football message board that's a shadow of its former self because a few younger members got a bit carried away and started posting left, right and centre just to boost their number of messages, but drove away a lot of older people.

[super_fish88]

yeah but all of my posts actually have a point, i don't just post for the sake of it.

[tinie]

lol he has a good point there

[super_fish88]

OK, i admit i might have over-done it a tiny bit when i first joined the forum but that was just because i was going through all the different threads for the first time, i've calmed down now!

[tinie]

lol