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Anonymous (ed8b)
My daughter will compete Level 3 this winter. Maybe.
ROBHS is haunting her. She is the last in her training group to not have it and seems to get further away from being close with every practice. Last year she started as a Level 3 and actually got moved to Level 2 because of, you guessed it, the ROBHS. Her level 2 season was amazing and she scored very high. She’s an energetic and precise competitor with zero fear of being in front of judges.
From what I can see, the coaches expect the RO to be perfect before adding the BHS part. But now she’s stuck in her head and I popped into practice to see what’s going on. Her RO looks worse than it did months ago.
She has complete routines for bars and beam and is moving from flat-back vault drills to landing on her feet. But I think that the ROBHS is going to stop her season before it even begins.
Do some gymnasts’ careers stop this early because they hit a skill they just cannot do? Is it possible that ROBHS is the outer limit of her ability, or can any athletic person learn it? I’m having trouble as a parent figuring out if this is where we should give her permission to stop or if this is where we double down on supporting her conviction that she’ll get it.
ROBHS is haunting her. She is the last in her training group to not have it and seems to get further away from being close with every practice. Last year she started as a Level 3 and actually got moved to Level 2 because of, you guessed it, the ROBHS. Her level 2 season was amazing and she scored very high. She’s an energetic and precise competitor with zero fear of being in front of judges.
From what I can see, the coaches expect the RO to be perfect before adding the BHS part. But now she’s stuck in her head and I popped into practice to see what’s going on. Her RO looks worse than it did months ago.
She has complete routines for bars and beam and is moving from flat-back vault drills to landing on her feet. But I think that the ROBHS is going to stop her season before it even begins.
Do some gymnasts’ careers stop this early because they hit a skill they just cannot do? Is it possible that ROBHS is the outer limit of her ability, or can any athletic person learn it? I’m having trouble as a parent figuring out if this is where we should give her permission to stop or if this is where we double down on supporting her conviction that she’ll get it.