{"id":6127,"date":"2018-07-31T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2018-07-31T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:09:48","slug":"preparing-dance-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/blog\/dance-competitions\/preparing-dance-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Competition is fast approaching and you have officially gone into panic mode\u2026.breathe!\u00a0In these last few weeks or days as you prepare, it\u2019s important to not only prepare by packing,\u00a0but also prepare yourself mentally and physically.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/179\/2018\/07\/COMPETITION-COVER-4-300x111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6128 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">With these last moments, our natural instinct is to try and change everything to make\u00a0sure that it is all perfect. This is the time to maintain your usual habits, don\u2019t try to drastically\u00a0change your diet to lose those last few pounds you\u2019ve been trying to lose. Focus on eating the\u00a0right foods and drinking plenty of water. With your routines, trust everything you have learned\u00a0and practiced in these weeks and months leading up to the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of the most important things to remember the day of, or days of the competition, is\u00a0to have fun and be present, enjoy every moment. Will there be some nerves? Yes and that\u2019s\u00a0completely natural and absolutely okay. But remember, we\u2019re just dancing, we\u2019re not curing\u00a0cancer. Pretend you know what you\u2019re doing and enjoy the moment, you want to have the best\u00a0memory of the day when you look back at your competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Do you want to do well? Of course you do, we\u2019re all only human and that\u2019s our natural\u00a0instinct. But make sure that you just let go, have some confidence in yourself, and most\u00a0importantly, have FUN! Dance with your heart and nothing else matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition is fast approaching and you have officially gone into panic mode\u2026.breathe!\u00a0In these last few weeks or days as you prepare, it\u2019s important to not only prepare by packing,\u00a0but also prepare yourself mentally and physically. With these last moments, our natural instinct is to try and change everything to make\u00a0sure that it is all perfect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-competitions","category-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/ridgefield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}