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For the most part, dog sports are solitary
endeavors. We aren't part of a bigger team, and
our friends at trials are usually focused on their
own dogs. Sometimes we aren't even able to watch
our friends due to scheduling and conflicts.
That's normal, expected, and accepted.

Still, in all that camaraderie, one thing surprised me: my
instructors were just fellow competitors once we were at a
trial; we were all in the same boat-just four women running their dogs. The friendship, the support, the laughs all
hooked me! (And to be crystal clear, those three women
changed my life forevermore. I am beyond grateful and indebted.) Yet, my only paradigm to this point was that your
coach at home was also your coach on the road, and I was
learning this was not normally the case in dog sports. We're
all out there together but doing our separate thing.

Creating Your tribe
So, without a natural support system, we're on our own to
create a group that wants to see us win. You would think it
would be easy given the structure of competitions; we are
not competing against each other as much as alongside
each other. In other words, there are more than enough Qs
to go around. Yet too often, the chairs are chattering with
gossip and disparaging comments about other competitors. It doesn't feel so friendly most of the time.
So back to our core challenge: who recognizes you on
the days when you don't Q but make a ton of progress?
Who sees you have one bar down, and still, it's your best
run of the weekend? Who is there to lift you after you
have "just one thing" go wrong? Who is there to cheer
on your baby dog?
We are more than our last Q or title. We are handlers, each
striving to evolve, each working with our animal partner
who has his own challenges on any given day. There's
a popular meme that says, "Your tribe ought to want to
see you win." That's 100% true. We all deserve to be surrounded with people who root for us, not against us. Seek
out instructors, fellow competitors, friends, and yes, even
performance coaches, who want to see you win. It can be
an intensely lonely game, but it doesn't have to be. Start
by being there for someone else and then trust Karma to
do his thing. D

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