I'm a beginner Adult (Adult 4) and recently started having issues with skating backwards. It started about a month ago when I was doing a basics run-through of backward crossovers, I was looking over my shoulder to the right, my coach was watching me on my left side, and another coach was demonstrating a kind of a backward shoot the duck move to her student with her back toward me. The other coach took my legs out from under me and we went down hard. No injuries, and no one was at fault - even though she apologized to me profusely. Now I find myself having a very hard time doing anything backwards. I am obsessively cautious to the point that i look and feel like I've regressed in skill. I skate early in the morning when there are fewer people at the rink so I am well aware that it is all in my head because I do it even when there is no one near me. It's almost a subconscious thing, like my body reacts before my brain can process what I'm doing. How in the world do I get over this unreasonable fear?
Any help or advice would be GREATLY appreciated!