My DD has been working on her back handsprings since November. At first, she was doing them well and started doing them on her own. Then, for some unknown reason, she started jumping UP instead of back. This has been going on for months now. She jumps way up. Has actually almost got her standing back tuck (which confuses me as to why they even showed them how to do this. It was for fun, but they are not even L4 yet. ) with just a tiny touch on her back, per her coach. And that she seems to have to jump up for.
I keep wanting her coach to go back to the basics, but it doesn't happen. She just always tells her to jump back, not up and will have her jump back into her arms, but I am thinking she needs to go back to doing them over a barrel or something.
She begs me to help her at home and though I feel comfortable spotting her, and admittedly have done it a couple times on our king size bed, I don't want to teach her bad habits or step on toes. We played around with it a few times after they first got introduced to her and a few times recently when she was insistent on trying to get the jumping back part right.
I just don't know what to do. Her coach even asked another coach to help her for a few tries last night and that didn't help either. DD says that all they keep telling her is to jump back and she says she feels like she is. She is 5 1/2.
Is this common? What should I do? I hate seeing her get frustrated and hate seeing it get overlooked week after week. She will occasionally do one that looks right, but the next is jumping up again.
She has a good backbend, bridge kickover, back walkover and almost her back limber.
I am afraid to approach the coach, but am unsure what to do. Are there any things that she can do at home (excluding me spotting her) such as drills, etc? She really wants to get this, but I am not sure she even knows what she is doing wrong.
Here is a not so good video of her trying to connect her ROBHS about 2 months ago or so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdQp-EhWak
Thanks for any advice.
I keep wanting her coach to go back to the basics, but it doesn't happen. She just always tells her to jump back, not up and will have her jump back into her arms, but I am thinking she needs to go back to doing them over a barrel or something.
She begs me to help her at home and though I feel comfortable spotting her, and admittedly have done it a couple times on our king size bed, I don't want to teach her bad habits or step on toes. We played around with it a few times after they first got introduced to her and a few times recently when she was insistent on trying to get the jumping back part right.
I just don't know what to do. Her coach even asked another coach to help her for a few tries last night and that didn't help either. DD says that all they keep telling her is to jump back and she says she feels like she is. She is 5 1/2.
Is this common? What should I do? I hate seeing her get frustrated and hate seeing it get overlooked week after week. She will occasionally do one that looks right, but the next is jumping up again.
She has a good backbend, bridge kickover, back walkover and almost her back limber.
I am afraid to approach the coach, but am unsure what to do. Are there any things that she can do at home (excluding me spotting her) such as drills, etc? She really wants to get this, but I am not sure she even knows what she is doing wrong.
Here is a not so good video of her trying to connect her ROBHS about 2 months ago or so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdQp-EhWak
Thanks for any advice.