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Hi everyone, I need some serious help. Here's the story. Last season was my first year on the team(I am in recreational optional) and they were trying to get me to jump to the high bar. I could do it when the bars were really close together, but I couldn't compete it that season because after a...

A couple weeks ago I was working roundoff backhandspring back tucks. Then I suprisingly lost my roundoff backhandspring. Then when I was doing standing backhandsprings in the backyard, I became hesistant and eventually lost my backhandspring. Sometimes I am even hesistant when doing back...

Does your gym have a standard on what to do with girls who are mental blocking? I often wonder if anyone really has a handle on what to do when a child won't throw their tumbling.

Help please! I have a 15 yr old tumbler that has only been tumbling for 2 school seasons. She actually just finished her second season last week. She's so naturally gifted w/the sport which is soooo exciting....just so determined & such a hard worker. Last season she managed to get her standing...

Help me, please! I have a mental block on my backhandspring on beam! I just can't go for it, although I know I will nail it if i could just throw it. How do i break my fear? (I have had it for about a year now) Thanks.

okay...so yestarday i did my back layout full on the trampoline at my house for the first time...well, cleanly i guess you could say... and i figured out how easy they were!! well, a few hours later i went outside and did a few more good ones...and one or two bad ones. Then i did one that scared...

I have this random fear of back extension rolls. And it's not purely mental either. I hurt my shoulder a while ago doing a back extension roll, and now every time I try it, I either hesitate or go over sideways. I'm scared I'm going to hurt my shoulder again. What can I do so that I don't hurt...

My dd is 8 years old who just completed level 3, but is competing as a prep op for the last half of the season. She has her first meet as a prep op at the end of this month. The coaches are wanting to put a roundoff, backhandspring in her routine. She is scared. I can put one hand on her...

Hi! I am mom to a 7 year old who began gymnastics a little over a year ago. She is now moving up to pre-team to train with the team members but will not compete, just yet. Anyway, she eats, sleeps, breathes and craves gymnastics which means I need to learn as much as I can! She has lofty...

How do you all deal with mental blocks? I was fine with back tumbling, but for some reason when it comes to punch fronts...i'm like really scared to go for it. Yeah, I know I'm gunna fall and stuff at first but for some reason I had no problem with back tumbling but frontwards brings out my...

i am alevel 6 so cast requirements on bars are 45 degrees (i think) on low bar i can get to horizontal and on high bar i dont get to horizontal. the problem on high bar is that i dont lean and just bump my hips off the bar: im gonna work my highbar extra hard at my next practice. but is not...

Gymomma I am answering this here because I can't post in the coaches forum. There are some really good posts about giants and mental blocks. My DD went through the same thing this summer. Look up some of the previous posts about this. We got some really good advice. Also a web site with some...

My daughter keeps getting mental blocks. Once she overcomes one, she will develop another. She will just one day not go for a skill or two. Right now it is her back tumbling and giants. She just recently got her giants, but bars is (normally) her strongest event. It is almost like she is...

So I am curious how many gymnasts and coaches out there deal with mental blocks on various events. I am also wondering how you deal with it? Lastly does it seem to crop up mostly in teen girls? My DD's struggle as you all know is bars mainly giants. I told her today when she finally gets it...

There have been some posts regarding mental blocks and thought it would be useful to post this article that I found on a sports psychology website (www.headgames.ws): It's called: BREAKING DOWN THE BLOCK! (Athletes) Getting it, losing it, and getting it back again in gymnastics by Alison...

My DD is having the same problem... she's 9. She just finished "Novice"... we did not compete compulsary. She placed 4th in our State Meet a few weeks ago and did her jump to the high bar on the Novice setting. Our gym is going to a mobility meet so our girls can compete the Level 5 compulsary...

Does anyone have any advice on getting rid of mental blocks on vault. I am 13yrs. old and i can't get myself over the vault. I have level 8 states April 13 and I'm supposed to be competing a tsuke and i just can't get myself to get over the table.... i can't even get myself to go on just a...

Does anyone have any advice on getting rid of mental blocks on vault. I have level 8 states April 13 and i can't get myself to get over the table. I'm supposed do do a tsuke but i cant get get myself to go. So if ANYONE has advice please reply ASAP!!!!!

Does anyone have suggestions on helping a gymnast get through a mental block? I have a 12 year old training level 9. As the season approached she started balking at her events. She has had no serious injuries so whe know its not that. We cant figure out where this came from and how to get...

Anyone have dds that are going through them or have gone through them?? We have had our share already of mental blocks and we are only in level 4. She will get a skill like her squat on the lower bar to jump to the high bar and lose it for a while and then get it back... Her most recent...