fears

What do you think causes irrational fears in gymnasts and is this common? And just curious, are there elite gymnasts who have gone through these fear episodes or are elites the girls who just keep plugging away without having anything like this occur? My gymmie suddenly developed a fear of...

Once a girl starts down the parth of fearing backward tumbling, what are the odds of it ever fully clearing up? Is this something she is going to deal with until she eventually quits? It's been off and on now (more off than on, but currently on) for 9 months. She's 10 and L4, it started a...

So DD's former L3 group is uptraining and learning both L4 routines and trying out L5 skills (our compulsory season is in the fall). It's been a frustrating endeavor watching her, because she's up until now been the top of her group and one of the quickest to get new skills. Her kip is coming...

DD is still having flyaway issues. She has competed lvl 5 at 2 meets. The first she made it, the second she scratched. I just learned she has not made once since before the last meet. We have a meet this weekend. I have been totally out of the gym and leaving this between coaches and DD...

I am looking for some proactive guidance/suggestions/etc., especially from coaches who have had to deal with the following: DD broke her tibia and fibula towards the end of October in a bad landing of a tsuk vault. It was an incredibly crazy evening, down to paramedics and clearing the gym...

Had a heart to heart with DD new (4 months) coaches and DD yesterday. Turns out that after the optional program went from 10 girls to 35 this last 2 weeks with another gym closing, things are necessarily getting stricter and girls getting less individual time and wiggle room with assignments...

my daughter (age 9, xcel silver) switched gyms about a month ago and i feel like she's gone backward in some skills. she is being very timid on beam with her handstands & cartwheels, her vault is looking wonky and she just won't give her all to master a BHS so while she does them beautifully...

Hi Everyone! So, I have this big problem with mental blocks and fears! Does anyone have any advice on what you can do to overcome these things? I have many, but a few include... Cartwheels and going all the way up to handstand on high beam (I'm scared of tipping over on them or not landing...

Today I talked to DCoach and asked if he could have DD do vault in slo-mo. He smiled and said, 'then I have to hold her and stop her in every section'......I said 'yes, she only weighs 50 lbs'. And we both laughed. He said he was not worried, that there was plenty of time before the summer meet...

DD has been struggling with fear of the vault table. She is small, and vault is her weakest event. She has gone over many times but she needs SUCH a mental wind up to do it. She has not been able to go over for two weeks and DCoach is telling her things like, 'you have to go over to get to the...

DD9 just moved to L5 (she will 'officially' be moved as of Feb. 1st, but for the past 6 weeks she has been working L4 hours with the L5 team). When she was an L4 and given the opportunity to uptrain, she loved every minute of it. Now, as an L5, she's terrified of the new skills (some of which...

Hi all - My 13yo L8 gymgirl has been experiencing various blocks since the end of L5, mostly around reverse skills (bhs, bt). She actually can do the skills very well, but gets blocked off and on. She's been able to work thru the blocks, and still do well in competition (L7 state beam champ!)...

So, all this discussion about vestibular and fears and such, and how it is often tied to growth spurts... do these things actually lessen if a kid sticks with it until they're done growing? My daughter is 12, a level 8, growing (and not just up either), and has been plagued by fears for the...

So, in every gymnast"s career, there is one fear that you think will NEVER leave! I thought it would be interesting to hear about other people's fears in gymnastics, and maybe I can give advice. :beady:

Some of our gymnasts had fun writing their fears on balloons and letting them go the other day. What are some ways that you or your gymnasts have dealt with fear?

Hi Coaches.. my daughter started her back tumbling fear in level 6 with the ro bhs btuck. She can do it, but at times will have her mental block take over and will chicken out. Her front tumbling is great. Its fast and fearless. She completed level 6 and wanted to move to level 7, but her gym...

So i never liked tumbling from the very beginning. I thought it involved wayyy too much energy, but i was willing to put up with it because i dreamed of being a college gymnast. Well, over the summer, we started doing all these drills for tumbling (we got a new coach) and i found out that i have...

So dd was ready to compete. All 4 events, fears behind her. Her first level 7 meet is in 2 weeks. Then...the LONG Christmas break (the longest one she has had since beginning gymnastics) and she is scared to death, again. No beam routine and no bar routine to speak of. A fearful gymnast who...

Well, DD is about 3 wks out from her first meet of the season (Dec 14th~16th). The coach came to me on wednesday and said...DD has developed a fear of vault (going over the table), and of her 2 back handsprings on floor. So strong is her fear on floor that she won't even do the single BHS she...

My 11-year-old level 7 is struggling with some fears. Specifically her BHS on high beam (it's beautiful and consistant on low beam) and bars (bars in general, giants and lay-out fly-aways in particular). She has a great attitude about it, always comes out of practice happy, coach says she's a...