- Nov 16, 2012
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Thank you all, for the encouraging words and empathy! I feel so so so sorry for this poor kid. She has not been mine for that long, but her former coaches have shared her past with me. I have talked to her former coaches all year and they all sympathize. It's so weird that this kid is so talented and confident on the other 3 events but on beam everything goes crazy. I mean, this kid is like a shining star on vault. I think that she has very good change to make it to the finals in the Nationals, maybe even medal there. And that would be huge since she only practices about 15-18 hours a week, we are a small club in the middle of nowhere and she has never had a professional coach. She has very good chance to get to the finals on floor also. Her double back is crazy high. I'm 164 cm tall and when I try to spot her on floor on the double backs, I can't touch her with my arm up and standing on my toes! Her twists are straight from a schoolbook, she does double twist and 540. And full twist forward. (She competed with a watered down floor routine in the qualifications because the competition floor was so bad and we didn't want to risk her vault, which was after the floor. She was still 4th with only a full twist and 540 and front layout).
I can only say that she's awesome. Lands the tumbles and vaults like a professional. I'm almost on the edge of asking mercy from our national gymnastics federation. But I know what they would say to a small club like ours. They never make exceptions. They don't care if they lose good kids in the process as long as they don't come from those few "professional" clubs.
We will definitely do the team challenge. And I could try giving her a assignment that JBS suggested, but I can't keep her on beam that long since we have very strict rotation schedule and have only 2 high beams so the other groups would go crazy if she kept one beam for 2 hours.
I can also try to distract her at competition like eucoach suggested. I could make her play a word game on her phone with me, I know that she likes to play this one particular game.
One day she was talking with her teammates about how she would love it if beam didn't exist. She pointed out that if that would not be possible, she would eliminate the requirement of the acro series. It might be the one to make her feel the most anxious. Her acro series now is just cartwheel-round off and she's not scared of it, it's an easy skill, but she's super anxious about having a wobble in between the skills OR falling from the RO. Not having acro series would automatically mean no mobility score for her.
I can only say that she's awesome. Lands the tumbles and vaults like a professional. I'm almost on the edge of asking mercy from our national gymnastics federation. But I know what they would say to a small club like ours. They never make exceptions. They don't care if they lose good kids in the process as long as they don't come from those few "professional" clubs.
We will definitely do the team challenge. And I could try giving her a assignment that JBS suggested, but I can't keep her on beam that long since we have very strict rotation schedule and have only 2 high beams so the other groups would go crazy if she kept one beam for 2 hours.
I can also try to distract her at competition like eucoach suggested. I could make her play a word game on her phone with me, I know that she likes to play this one particular game.
One day she was talking with her teammates about how she would love it if beam didn't exist. She pointed out that if that would not be possible, she would eliminate the requirement of the acro series. It might be the one to make her feel the most anxious. Her acro series now is just cartwheel-round off and she's not scared of it, it's an easy skill, but she's super anxious about having a wobble in between the skills OR falling from the RO. Not having acro series would automatically mean no mobility score for her.