Quote Originally Posted by Poom

You didn't ask me, but Ill an answer anyway which is : when your comfortable with it
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Cheers Poom I know what you mean but the problem with some people is they can get comfortable on beds of nails.

Sharla sounds like you're not getting in the optimum performance zone early because of, what's known in sport psychology, as low arousal. I think you mentioned in another post that you spar with guys so I take it you are used to a fair amount of punishment. So it might be that you don't switch on mentally when things feel a little easier.

Ta Scrap, so integrate it.