Gabby Mackee
Gymnast
I'm fourteen (late for starting, I know, but I've found that I just really enjoy the sport), and very much a gymnastics beginner. I've been making a lot of progress in my first few classes, and I'm very excited about all the new skills I'm learning; however, I've started to find some mental blocks that are really getting in my way, and I don't understand why I have them.
I am paralyzingly afraid of rolls.
I don't know why. I can do front tucks on the trampoline, and dive rolls, and handstand flatbacks, but if I have to go from sitting on the ground into a front roll, I freeze up. I haven't been able to make myself do a back roll, either. I have no fear on beam, or bars, or vault, but rolls? I freak out.
I have no idea where this fear comes from. I've only fallen on my neck/head/back a couple of times, and those times were while attempting backbends with no spotter. In martial arts, I've done rolls while diving over a five-foot stack of mats. In track, I practiced high jump without nerves. But now, when it comes to rolls, I just can't seem to get around my fear.
Does anyone have any tips for conquering these fears, or thoughts as to why I have them? I would really appreciate any advice on the subject. Thanks!!
I am paralyzingly afraid of rolls.
I don't know why. I can do front tucks on the trampoline, and dive rolls, and handstand flatbacks, but if I have to go from sitting on the ground into a front roll, I freeze up. I haven't been able to make myself do a back roll, either. I have no fear on beam, or bars, or vault, but rolls? I freak out.
I have no idea where this fear comes from. I've only fallen on my neck/head/back a couple of times, and those times were while attempting backbends with no spotter. In martial arts, I've done rolls while diving over a five-foot stack of mats. In track, I practiced high jump without nerves. But now, when it comes to rolls, I just can't seem to get around my fear.
Does anyone have any tips for conquering these fears, or thoughts as to why I have them? I would really appreciate any advice on the subject. Thanks!!