So this is really a cheerleading issue, but since it is specifically related to gymnastics/tumbling I'm going to ask here. I'm feeling very upset about it and I really need advice.
So during my first year of high school, I made the varsity cheer team and, still being a gymnast at the time, tumbling skills came so easily to me. I could pretty much do everything I could do on a spring floor without shoes, on a cheer floor with shoes. I could do a roundoff back handspring on the basketball court even! But this year, to make a long story short, I made jv cheer even though I was on varsity last year. And we almost never did tumbling in jv cheer. So I started taking private lessons at a cheer gym, and I could still pretty much tumble the same way I had last year. But, I was only taking one private lesson a week, and my coach is really really tough. He makes you do skills over and over again, which at the time was no problem for me, but it was very tiring. And then eventually it started to catch up to me. I suddenly had trouble doing skills on the cheer floor that I could do no problem the year before. And then, it caught up to me during tumbling lessons on the spring floor. Now a few weeks ago, I was struggling with my back handspring, which I've had for 5 or 6 years! It suddenly just seemed really scary. Now I could do it, but it took time and trying so hard "not to think about it." It didn't feel like I could do it naturally. I went today, and did one back handspring on the floor and then got scared. My coach got really mad, said he knew I could do it(which I can, I don't blame him!) and we weren't working on anything else until I did it. And I just couldn't. I was crying and then my dad and him talked and we decided to start working them from a diagonal mat again, just like I did when I was first learning them. They came pretty easily, and I hope to be able to do it on the floor again next week.
However, this is just bothering me so much. I've been doing back TUCKS for 4 years now and I don't know why this back handspring is suddenly so hard. My dad asked if we should keep doing it, am I really getting any better or is it just making me scared. I'm not going to give up or I'll just get worse and worse but I don't know what else to DO! I try so so so so so hard not to think too much about it but I'm still scared. I don't know why I suddenly can't do this anymore. Please help, I'm in tears typing this now!
Also I apologize if you don't like the fact that this is a cheerleading situation instead of gymnastics but since it's really about tumbling and the fear, etc. similar to gymnastics I thought since the people on this board are so supportive and nice and give great advice, someone would be able to help me.
So during my first year of high school, I made the varsity cheer team and, still being a gymnast at the time, tumbling skills came so easily to me. I could pretty much do everything I could do on a spring floor without shoes, on a cheer floor with shoes. I could do a roundoff back handspring on the basketball court even! But this year, to make a long story short, I made jv cheer even though I was on varsity last year. And we almost never did tumbling in jv cheer. So I started taking private lessons at a cheer gym, and I could still pretty much tumble the same way I had last year. But, I was only taking one private lesson a week, and my coach is really really tough. He makes you do skills over and over again, which at the time was no problem for me, but it was very tiring. And then eventually it started to catch up to me. I suddenly had trouble doing skills on the cheer floor that I could do no problem the year before. And then, it caught up to me during tumbling lessons on the spring floor. Now a few weeks ago, I was struggling with my back handspring, which I've had for 5 or 6 years! It suddenly just seemed really scary. Now I could do it, but it took time and trying so hard "not to think about it." It didn't feel like I could do it naturally. I went today, and did one back handspring on the floor and then got scared. My coach got really mad, said he knew I could do it(which I can, I don't blame him!) and we weren't working on anything else until I did it. And I just couldn't. I was crying and then my dad and him talked and we decided to start working them from a diagonal mat again, just like I did when I was first learning them. They came pretty easily, and I hope to be able to do it on the floor again next week.
However, this is just bothering me so much. I've been doing back TUCKS for 4 years now and I don't know why this back handspring is suddenly so hard. My dad asked if we should keep doing it, am I really getting any better or is it just making me scared. I'm not going to give up or I'll just get worse and worse but I don't know what else to DO! I try so so so so so hard not to think too much about it but I'm still scared. I don't know why I suddenly can't do this anymore. Please help, I'm in tears typing this now!
Also I apologize if you don't like the fact that this is a cheerleading situation instead of gymnastics but since it's really about tumbling and the fear, etc. similar to gymnastics I thought since the people on this board are so supportive and nice and give great advice, someone would be able to help me.
