I’m never not in awe of the level of preparation, the mentality, the strength and discipline that implies being a professional athlete like our girls from AWFC. And this is specially palpable for me whenever I have to do any sort of competition in sports because I have a hard time sleeping, I get anxiety and the unknown is something that from a sporting perspective I really struggle with sometimes.
My family is here in the from Venezuela visiting. I only get to see them every couple of years and rarely do they ever get to see me play music, let alone watch me play sports. Growing up I played football in school my whole life and they came to every match, and no I wasn’t good. They still came.
The last time they ever saw me play anything competitively was in 2018 when I was GK in a futsal league and they saw the semis and the final we eventually won but now that I have been doing pickleball somewhat often and seriously I was able to sign to a tournament outside of LA and here I am, minutes away from leaving.
You’d think that I would think things like: “well, if I did this for a living I would be used to it” but no. I have played literally hundreds of competitive matches (at a super low low low level) but I still can’t sleep the night before, I keep overthinking etc etc so no, I’m not built for this and its very, very clear that athletes are just built differently and I’m talking mostly about a mental perspective.
Part of why I sign up to these tournaments its literally because of AWFC. They motivate me to be the best version of my self and this is a way for me to test myself and find parallels and things common. It also allows me to understand them more and be more empathetic because after losing a final, if I had read one single tweet about how I wasn’t good or should’ve done this or that, I would have driven to the person’s house and thrown a whole pizza in their face.
I would encourage anyone to go touch grass or a court, literally and try to be as competitive as possible and remind yourself, in practice and not in theory, of how difficult even a super amateur competition can be, so imagine what elite footballers do, for us keyboard warriors to think we know better.
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