I have a 9-year-old kid who has been at level 2 for around a year, year and a half, and has been on pre-team for several years. She has competed 2 seasons of level 2. Her best friend in the class moved up to level 3 this season which upset them both, and I kind of hoped that this would give the aforementioned level 2 some sort of motivation to work harder. (and thus get her round off backhandspring, which she has shown promise on in the past) It's not that she doesn't work hard... it's that she kind of picks and chooses what she wants to try hard on and what she's not really feeling that day...
Anyway, back to the point. She is the last out of the level 2 (prospective level 3's for next season) bunch who still doesn't have their Round-off backhandspring. She can't do it on the trampoline, on mats, on the floor, with a spot, not anywhere. We've been working on it for at least the past year. She can do a backhandspring on her own on the trampoline, and has been able to for probably at least 3 months now.
For some reason she just has a complete mental block with the round off backhandspring. It's not that she isn't strong or good enough, her brain just like shuts down or something. She either does a round off and rebounds straight up into the air, or completely stops her roundoff and falls backward onto the back. Otherwise she does round-off rebound, jump, back handspring.
We have been trying to get her to stick her roundoff, because she has gotten it into her brain where she rebounds her round off all the time. But when we try to get her to stick it, she does the thing where she just falls over onto her back, or lands in a low squat and sits down.
I have gotten her to work on doing round off connected to back drop, and backhandspring to backdrop, and she can do both of these things easily. Are there any other drills I can have her work on that (preferably) doesn't involve spotting? She tends to flop onto my arm when she gets scared and her brain shuts down when I'm spotting the round-off backhandspring, and I don't know how much more of that I can take.
Anyway, back to the point. She is the last out of the level 2 (prospective level 3's for next season) bunch who still doesn't have their Round-off backhandspring. She can't do it on the trampoline, on mats, on the floor, with a spot, not anywhere. We've been working on it for at least the past year. She can do a backhandspring on her own on the trampoline, and has been able to for probably at least 3 months now.
For some reason she just has a complete mental block with the round off backhandspring. It's not that she isn't strong or good enough, her brain just like shuts down or something. She either does a round off and rebounds straight up into the air, or completely stops her roundoff and falls backward onto the back. Otherwise she does round-off rebound, jump, back handspring.
We have been trying to get her to stick her roundoff, because she has gotten it into her brain where she rebounds her round off all the time. But when we try to get her to stick it, she does the thing where she just falls over onto her back, or lands in a low squat and sits down.
I have gotten her to work on doing round off connected to back drop, and backhandspring to backdrop, and she can do both of these things easily. Are there any other drills I can have her work on that (preferably) doesn't involve spotting? She tends to flop onto my arm when she gets scared and her brain shuts down when I'm spotting the round-off backhandspring, and I don't know how much more of that I can take.