kaloss
Proud Parent
Dd turned 7 at the end of August, so she's still a young 7. About a month ago, at practice, she saw her best friend break her arm (it was really broken, bent in the wrong direction). Since then she has had several bouts of balking on her back handspring (what her friend was doing when she broke her arm).
She had been doing back handspring series across the floor as part of their warmup. Now she goes and hides during them. They do tumble-track warm up some days, and she did 5 in a row last week. On Thursday though, she wouldn't connect her ROBHS on the floor at all. She said she needed to warm them up on the resi first...but she still won't connect them. She will do a standing back handspring on the resi, on a sting mat, but not on the regular floor.
This morning I was watching warm ups and she would do one back handspring on the tumble track then stop. Her coach told her to connect 2, she didn't. So she was sent to the rope. This is the head coach/owner of the gym. I fully trust her.
2 hours later, I got a text from her other coach that she still wasn't connecting them, and had now missed bars because she was still standing on the tumble track...balking on the skill. She finally got her to do them, up to 3 in a row, starting with a spot and gradually backing off.
Lastly, the second coach told me that the head coach said that she might have to go back to evening practices, because of this. Right now she is in a homeschool group, training with about 15 girls, all optionals except her. I think the next youngest girl is 10. The evening group of level 3s has almost 30 girls and 2 coaches. I really don't want her to be kicked out of this training group she is in right now.
I don't know what I can do for her. She can't tell me what she is afraid of, or what's bothering her. I don't want to add any additional pressure, but I KNOW she can do them, and they're beautiful when she finally does.
Advice please!!!
She had been doing back handspring series across the floor as part of their warmup. Now she goes and hides during them. They do tumble-track warm up some days, and she did 5 in a row last week. On Thursday though, she wouldn't connect her ROBHS on the floor at all. She said she needed to warm them up on the resi first...but she still won't connect them. She will do a standing back handspring on the resi, on a sting mat, but not on the regular floor.
This morning I was watching warm ups and she would do one back handspring on the tumble track then stop. Her coach told her to connect 2, she didn't. So she was sent to the rope. This is the head coach/owner of the gym. I fully trust her.
2 hours later, I got a text from her other coach that she still wasn't connecting them, and had now missed bars because she was still standing on the tumble track...balking on the skill. She finally got her to do them, up to 3 in a row, starting with a spot and gradually backing off.
Lastly, the second coach told me that the head coach said that she might have to go back to evening practices, because of this. Right now she is in a homeschool group, training with about 15 girls, all optionals except her. I think the next youngest girl is 10. The evening group of level 3s has almost 30 girls and 2 coaches. I really don't want her to be kicked out of this training group she is in right now.
I don't know what I can do for her. She can't tell me what she is afraid of, or what's bothering her. I don't want to add any additional pressure, but I KNOW she can do them, and they're beautiful when she finally does.
Advice please!!!