Hi everyone ~
My dd has been working on the beginning part of her Yerchenko vault for L8 for a long time, at least a year or so. She has just started to flip the tuck on the back a few weeks ago. I think what she has been doing up until a few weeks ago has been a “timer†or something like that, and lots and lots of drills.
She came home very upset and frustrated the other night because she is having a hard time landing the tuck - she keeps landing on her knees over and over. She was crying, which is very unusual for her, and it took quite a while to calm her down. She is concerned that she won’t learn it and won’t be able to move to L8 this season because the vault is the only thing she can’t do. Since I have no clue what learning this would entail, I told her that is seems like she is being very hard on herself and that she hasn’t been working on it very long so it seems a little unrealistic that she would be able to land it perfectly in only a few weeks. She is 10 and this will only be her 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] year of competition, so I also told her that she has learned a ton of skills very quickly and there is no reason to assume that she will never learn this skill, but it could take time. I told her it’s totally fine in my mind if she competes a few L7 meets, or even another whole season and to be a little more patient with herself.
But as much as I don’t care if she competes L8, I DO care about her safety. As we were talking about it, she said that the coach only spotted her a few times on the first day she tried it. She said he keeps saying she is “throwing her head back†and that’s all he really says. She knows she’s doing this, but couldn’t really tell me why, or what she should do to correct this (except for to stop doing it). It seems like they spent so much time teaching her the front half, and doing drill after drill after drill, so it seems concerning to me they have so little to offer on the back half. Is this normal?
I guess it is my opinion, but our gym is not great at vault on average. Lots of girls say that the coach just tells them the same thing over and over again, but they don’t really understand what they are doing wrong, so I guess I am worried that they are now rushing her because they season is approaching and setting her up to get hurt or, at minimum, scared. Is this typically the way a coach would expect this skill to progress and is there not much they can do but wait until she sorts it out on her own? If not, what can she/I do or say to get her some help without the coaches getting mad?
Thanks!
My dd has been working on the beginning part of her Yerchenko vault for L8 for a long time, at least a year or so. She has just started to flip the tuck on the back a few weeks ago. I think what she has been doing up until a few weeks ago has been a “timer†or something like that, and lots and lots of drills.
She came home very upset and frustrated the other night because she is having a hard time landing the tuck - she keeps landing on her knees over and over. She was crying, which is very unusual for her, and it took quite a while to calm her down. She is concerned that she won’t learn it and won’t be able to move to L8 this season because the vault is the only thing she can’t do. Since I have no clue what learning this would entail, I told her that is seems like she is being very hard on herself and that she hasn’t been working on it very long so it seems a little unrealistic that she would be able to land it perfectly in only a few weeks. She is 10 and this will only be her 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] year of competition, so I also told her that she has learned a ton of skills very quickly and there is no reason to assume that she will never learn this skill, but it could take time. I told her it’s totally fine in my mind if she competes a few L7 meets, or even another whole season and to be a little more patient with herself.
But as much as I don’t care if she competes L8, I DO care about her safety. As we were talking about it, she said that the coach only spotted her a few times on the first day she tried it. She said he keeps saying she is “throwing her head back†and that’s all he really says. She knows she’s doing this, but couldn’t really tell me why, or what she should do to correct this (except for to stop doing it). It seems like they spent so much time teaching her the front half, and doing drill after drill after drill, so it seems concerning to me they have so little to offer on the back half. Is this normal?
I guess it is my opinion, but our gym is not great at vault on average. Lots of girls say that the coach just tells them the same thing over and over again, but they don’t really understand what they are doing wrong, so I guess I am worried that they are now rushing her because they season is approaching and setting her up to get hurt or, at minimum, scared. Is this typically the way a coach would expect this skill to progress and is there not much they can do but wait until she sorts it out on her own? If not, what can she/I do or say to get her some help without the coaches getting mad?Thanks!
