fear

Hello fellow coaches out there. Right now I am currently writing a paper on overcoming fears in sports. I just wanted to know what everyone does when they have a gymnast who is afraid of something. How do you break the skill down, what techniques, advice, punishment, encouragement do you give...

My daughter has always been fearless. (Clearly she doesn't take after her mother.) For the past 6+ months, however, she has been stuck on a bar skill. Her coaches tell us she has the physical strength and coordination to do it, but she keeps "chickening out" at the last minute. We've been...

So I let the coaches deal with DD, and they let her go at her own pace. The child that had lost everything and was scared of her own shadow is competing all 4 level 7 events with complete routines tomorrow. Not sure how she did it, but she worked through every fear and can't wait to rock the...

So the fear bubble popped, FINALLY! She is back to doing the back handspring step out on high beam and acting like she was born to do them. Nevermind the months of fear that preceded this moment! Giants are in full swing with the flyaway dismount again and she is even moving forward on skills...

I have a gymnast who is struggling with fear when learning her giants. She can do them easily on strap bar, has perfect shapes and enough strength. I am completely confident that she can do this skill. She knows she can do it. But she's scared. She does long hang pullovers but can't seem to...

Hi! So since I just started gymnastics last summer, I have never been used to dealing with how scary some of the skills are and I am really struggling with fear. I can be really scared of something and then do it well but be extremely scared to do it another tine even if I know I can make it...

Okay well you may have seen my other thread where I said that I subluxed (popped out and back in essentially from what I understand from my physio). I did this doing a flic on the low beam with a fat mat over it so couldn't get much safer than that. I was already scared of this skill when I did...

Is it legitimate to be able to do a skill nicely on the low bar, but be afraid of it to the point where you cannot do it on the high bar? How can you work through such a fear? I assume it is a bit of a numbers game, because it is a new skill. Any experience or thoughts?!?! Time is ticking...

So dd still doesn't have most of the level 7 bar skills, but she is getting there. The past few practices on bars the coaches are helping her less and less on her giants and telling her that she did one without a spot at all, etc. So last night she told me that at today's practice she was...

So, my 7yo DD has been doing BHS on the tramp and tumble track for months. She can do 5 or 6 in a row with NO problems. A few months ago she started doing BHS on floor as well. Now, all of a sudden, it's gone. She is too nervous to do it. To my knowledge nothing has caused this. No falls...

okay, so this fear is driving me insane. :mad: i started back walkovers on beam during August. I got it the first night i started it, and it seemed so easy for me at the time. But ever sense then, each night, i go into my gym, do it on the fat beam (which is attached to a low beam), and then i...

Well the title basically speaks for itself. DD is working on these skills and has become dead afraid and will not even attempt them on the real bars. She can do giants like mad on the single pit bar. She has done a few flyaways on the pit bar as well, but then hit her toes on the bar and...

My 10 yo dd is working toward level 6 this year. She is really struggling with fear over her back walkover on the beam. She used to be afraid to even do it on the floor beam. It took a couple of months to just get over that. She now does it on a 2-foot beam, but is really scared and she will...

I've always told both my gymnasts that continuing to do gymnastics is their choice, that when it stops being fun is the time to reconsider. Ds has been ambivalent for a few months, saying that gym "is no fun anymore" and flip flopping between continuing one day and then quitting the next day...

Hi! I really need to vent because I'm so frustrated about not feeling good enough! I love gymnastics, I really do but I'm too old and too tall and I'm scared so I guess I'll never win any medal at all. I'm a very strong person and very perfectionist too. I'm not satisfied with how fast I'm...

I have always loved practice, but this year has been stressful and i don't want to go to practice.How do i get rid of my fear???

Hi, I'm new here. :P So a couple months ago I started a Tumbling class. I wasn't very strong ( I'm still not ) so it was hard for me to do handstands or anything much for that matter but my coach had me doing handstands and trying to do cartwheels right from day one. ( I have no idea if that's...

I really like gymnastics but I can't completely enjoy it because I'm scarred. I can barely stand up on the higher bbeam while other girls in my group are doing cartwheels and back walkovers. I'm not afraid of heights so I don't really know what I am afraid of. I just know I can't concentrate...

I have this huge mental block with connecting my giant to my layout flyaway. So, i am a level six. My season just ended and i am training seven now. I have had my giant for a while and it is pretty decent. I also have a layout flywaway from a small cast or tap swings, onto a regular mat. I...

Okay, we were tumbling on saturday and I was doing a handspring front and landed on my neck (I am totally fine i was just shocked) despite having this skill for ages. I have a comp in about a week and handspring front is in my routine and i went to do handspring front in my routine last night...