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Conquering Ring Nerves: A Step-by-Step Program for All Dog Sports

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If you get nervous in competition, this is the book for you! Diane goes step by step on how to combat the dreaded Ring Nerves. In this book, you'll learn how important breathing is, how to create a safe space and distance yourself from your fears, how to be in-tuned with your dog, improve your self-esteem, focus on your goals and how to stretch. This is a wonderful book -- I highly recommend it.

I don't usually have issues with ring nerves, but one of my dogs got badly spooked at a show and we had a vicious cycle of fear going with a dog I had very high hopes for. Heard about this book through the Dog Read group at Yahoo! so I decided to give it a try. Excellent advice on how to think about competition as well as visualization and physical exercises to use to overcome ring nerves. Although I already had a lot of the right thought patterns, the exercises did help me focus and relax. It helped - my dog ended up winning the competition for Best North American Bred Bull Terrier and was Top Bull Terrier in Canada in 2008!

the book was good show me watys the help me get over the problem of getting so worked up before you go into different dog rings