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Mack_the_Ripper
This just makes me so angry. I'm an optional gymnast and my group is about 6-8 girls from levels 7 to 10, depending on the day. We have two coaches, one who always coaches beam and the other who always coaches floor. The beam coach coach is great, very talented, she makes me feel like I'm successful when I make improvements even if the end product isn't beautiful.
The other coach barely pays attention to me or the other level 7s and 8s. She gets really excited if someone makes a "big" skill like a double back or a new release move, but she isn't interested in the grunt work it takes to learn a new skill for the untalented people like me. Today she said two things to me throughout a five-hour practice, "That one was better" (tumbling pass) and "Keep your legs together" (vault). So, I suppose I'm to assume that everything else was absolutely perfect? I'm not a natural tumbler and I know it's not going to improve without feedback, and I know a lot of the lower-level optionals feel the same way I do about her coaching.
My real question is, how do I not get worked up about this? This is my last year in gymnastics so it's not a super big deal if my tumbling sucks. But it still makes me angry on principle, not to mention that I have a whole competition season left and I want to do the best floor routines I am capable of.
The other coach barely pays attention to me or the other level 7s and 8s. She gets really excited if someone makes a "big" skill like a double back or a new release move, but she isn't interested in the grunt work it takes to learn a new skill for the untalented people like me. Today she said two things to me throughout a five-hour practice, "That one was better" (tumbling pass) and "Keep your legs together" (vault). So, I suppose I'm to assume that everything else was absolutely perfect? I'm not a natural tumbler and I know it's not going to improve without feedback, and I know a lot of the lower-level optionals feel the same way I do about her coaching.
My real question is, how do I not get worked up about this? This is my last year in gymnastics so it's not a super big deal if my tumbling sucks. But it still makes me angry on principle, not to mention that I have a whole competition season left and I want to do the best floor routines I am capable of.