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Isn't too pleased with myself today. As always, when it comes to doin presentation and persuasion to a big group of people! It is juz not my thang!!

I had to introduce & pull JC newbies to join Kickboxing tis afternoon. After my Physical Combat class in the mornin, a colleague decided to rope me in to demonstrate Kickboxing to the students. I was totally fine & excited abt the idea since I am pretty familiar with Kickboxing & Cardio Combat so, a few sets of 8 is GREAT! I found the perfect music and practised my moves in the cosy toilet of Century Square (yeah the 2nd floor one that has a damn big mirror with comfy couch and tables for make-up!), so after assistin in another school, i was pretty much set to go!

Then while I was on my way to that JC, i was told to PROMOTE Kickboxing instead of juz demonstratin and tellin them what they will be taught. My demonstration was almost scrapped but thank God it wasn't! So within abt half an hour I had to crack my brain to think of how to attract these students to join the activity. I wrote some benefits down in points but I did not have time to rehearse out and add some spice to them. Kinda demoralised...and when i was in the school hall, the students were almost dead. Greeting sounded so loathful...no zest, no enthusiasm. My colleague went on n on abt yoga and even got the students to do a lil balancin act. I was tryin hard to remember what the hell i wrote in my notebook, and the next thing i noe, the mic was in my hand.

SHIT! Stage Fright!!

My hand was tremblin and i can't hide it...tried my best to focus and remember the main points but the tremblin won't go away. So i juz had to quit talkin and get into my groove instead. I hesitated to pick up the mic again after the demo, kinda scared that i might end up repeatin all over what i have said before. Urghhhh i juz so hate it when i'm like tis! I am so sure that I would be able to present myself better if i had some time to myself to plan out and think aloud of what to say. Spontaneous Smooth operator i am not...dammit!! How am i to overcome such shit?

Sure, plannin & practisin makes perfect, but sometimes circumstances juz do not allow that. How, how do i overcome gettin panicky and be all confident to give instructions clearly as well as reach out to the masses with an impact Spontaneously? i'm always jittery when it comes to such things!! Tis habit of mine is really I-R-R-I-T-A-T-I-N-G!

And u noe how many people actually signed up for Kickboxing? Abt 15...not even half the number of students that signed up for the other 2 classes demonstrated with it. I could only make myself feel better by sayin, well they already have a Compulsory Body Combat class to attend so probably they might noe that Kickboxing & Body Combat are almost the same, so they'd rather learn some other stuff rather than juz kickin n punchin abt all the time and the class was scheduled at a bad timing, kinda late since the students will be havin school the next day. hmmmmms...i juz hope i won't be shut out from doin any more demos/promotions because of my first experience. bummer...