- Jan 21, 2007
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Do you guys have any particular tricks to get kids over mental blocks?
I'd mainly like to hear what you do with skills that you can't fully spot. I have one guy who has amazingly powerful tumbling (when he does a RO-BHS-rebound, his feet are at my eye level), but is afraid to do a back tuck. Here's the part that makes it difficult; he's 14, and too heavy for me to do a complete spot of the skill. With a smaller kid, I could simply do the whole skill for them (ie pick them up, turn them over, put them down) until they felt more comfortable with it, but this particular guy is too heavy and too powerful for me to do that. I've tried every trick I can think of, but to no avail so far.
Any thoughts?
Here's a brief rundown:
-14 years old, I'd estimate 115 lbs
-On his RO-BHS-rebound, his feet reach my eye level easily; were he to actually throw the tuck, I could perhaps bump and catch, but I wouldn't be able to reach him in the middle of the skill
-A few months ago, he overrotated a back tuck and landed flat on his back. He has done a few since then, but recently (after a nasty fall from rings at a meet) has become a lot more fearful of everything, especially the back tuck
-He's afraid to pit tumble, and even if he wasn't, I don't know if I'd let him work the skill into a pit; back when he was doing the skill, it the whole thing travelled backwards two inches, if that; it went literally straight up and straight down.
-He's completely comfortable with back tucks on trampoline as well as standing back tucks -- his standing tucks are among the highest I've ever seen.
I'd mainly like to hear what you do with skills that you can't fully spot. I have one guy who has amazingly powerful tumbling (when he does a RO-BHS-rebound, his feet are at my eye level), but is afraid to do a back tuck. Here's the part that makes it difficult; he's 14, and too heavy for me to do a complete spot of the skill. With a smaller kid, I could simply do the whole skill for them (ie pick them up, turn them over, put them down) until they felt more comfortable with it, but this particular guy is too heavy and too powerful for me to do that. I've tried every trick I can think of, but to no avail so far.
Any thoughts?
Here's a brief rundown:
-14 years old, I'd estimate 115 lbs
-On his RO-BHS-rebound, his feet reach my eye level easily; were he to actually throw the tuck, I could perhaps bump and catch, but I wouldn't be able to reach him in the middle of the skill
-A few months ago, he overrotated a back tuck and landed flat on his back. He has done a few since then, but recently (after a nasty fall from rings at a meet) has become a lot more fearful of everything, especially the back tuck
-He's afraid to pit tumble, and even if he wasn't, I don't know if I'd let him work the skill into a pit; back when he was doing the skill, it the whole thing travelled backwards two inches, if that; it went literally straight up and straight down.
-He's completely comfortable with back tucks on trampoline as well as standing back tucks -- his standing tucks are among the highest I've ever seen.
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