Confidence is a wonderful character trait to have in life. Confidence helps you do well in an interview, do well in school or college, meet more people, do better in sports … in general, confidence helps you perform more successfully.
Confidence is an important character trait to develop at a young age. If parents, teachers, and coaches help children develop confidence, they will turn out to be much more confident adults.
Benefits of Competing in Figure Skating
Healthy competition is a fantastic way to develop confidence in children and teenagers. Ice skating in particular is a wonderful sport to help children and teenagers develop confidence.
If you’re in singles, skating helps give you confidence in yourself as an individual. If you’re a pairs-, dance-, or synchronized skater, it helps you develop confidence in yourself as well as develops the ability to work with a team member or members.
Ice skating in any discipline helps to improve posture. Posture plays a huge part in confidence because you appear more confident when you have good posture. At the same time, you feel more confident with good posture because you’re standing taller. Also, ice skating helps your health and fitness which naturally gives you more confidence. Strength, flexibility, and endurance are gained through ice skating.
Competing is especially helpful because when you compete, you’re under pressure. If you perform well, it gives you confidence. If you get the added bonus of a good placement, that gives you confidence. The more competitions you do, the more confident you become in yourself and your ability.
Later on in life, you can look back and say, “If I competed in ice skating with that big of an audience, then I can do this.” Even if your performance isn’t your best one, you can still be confident in the fact that you are able to go out and skate in front of large audiences.
More about Figure Skating and Confidence
My mom has posts at Raising Figure Skaters about how my brother and I gained self-confidence from competitive skating:
Self-Confidence Makes Everything Better
Success after Competitive Skating Isn’t Just Luck
Confidence is also a common theme in this video with lots of skaters answering the question, “What’s so great about figure skating?”
Have fun competing! 🙂
Competition can be a great experience as long as the fun aspect is still made to be an important part.
Thanks for your comment, Mike! I agree that it is important to make fun be a big focus for competition. Have a great week. 🙂
Would totally agree with Mike. The fun part should always be there. Some kids would compete because their mum/dad are stage parents. They would bribe their kids for toys etc to compete in some contest etc.
Thanks for your comment, Nathaniel! Kids definitely need to enjoy their competition. It’s good to have support from family and even be pushed a certain amount to help develop character, but fun should be a big emphasis! Happy Easter! 🙂
Beyond the competing, I liked the part of the video where the skaters were describing just how fun it is to feel like you are flying in a jump, to lean way into an edge, to feel the speed of skating…. I think that al is my favorite part. I agree you can learn a lot by going through the experience of competing…. but at heart, I do it because it is fun.
Thanks for commenting, Mary! That’s wonderful that your favorite part of skating is for the fun of it! Sometimes the extra motivation of competition, is what pushes some skaters, but if you can find that motivation either way even better! Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
You can spot a confidence person by their posture.
@Mike Normally if you do what you love, the fun is always there.
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You are right Christina, it is important to have confidence in every aspect of our lives whether in sports, business and our daily lives.
What an adorable picture, Christina! I’ve heard so many times now from a number of different people that competition can build confidence, especially in younger people. As long as parents know the fine line between supporting their kids and pushing them too hard, I can’t see how the drawbacks of competition could even come close to comparing the standard of benefits on offer!
very well written.competition play very important role to increase confidence.you share very good information.I appreciate you for this.