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    Parents Mental Block During Meet Season

    My 8 year old daughter has developed her 2nd mental block with her BHS. Her history goes back to getting it 3 years ago this month. She was doing Rec classes at a Turner’s program and expressed interest in competing. I was not comfortable with their program and we visited a USAG gym in our...
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    Parents Should Gymnast compete with a Mental Block?

    I posted on here a few months ago about my daughters back tumbling mental block, she is 10 years old. It got better for about 2 months and unfortunately came back again . It has really affected her confidence in general and has affected all pieces. She can still do the tumble but couch has to be...
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    WAG Extreme mental block?

    Hi, I was an acrobat/gymnast when I started having pain in my knee. I had my side aerial, front aerial, back handspring, round off back handspring, round off back tuck, round off back layout etc. I stopped gymnastics and dance to recover because of my knee and now i'm about to go back to...
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    WAG L9 Mental Block only when Competing

    Hi everyone, Hoping for some advice. DD is a 13yo repeat L9. State champ on bars last season, 5th aa. Went into regionals 2 weeks after state with a mental block and would not do bail. Recovered over the summer. Was doing fabulous bar routines in the gym. Come to first meet: bam. No bail in...
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    Parents Mental blocks balking

    Ok my friends daughter in November had a bad meet where she fell on her back tuck on floor and bars. Then was out because of hairline fracture on ankle. She is at a loss and I feel bad I can't give advice. Any words of wisdom you guys can give. Thanks
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    WAG Flyaway mental block

    How do I help my 10yo DD deal with a major mental block on her giant-flyway? She's been very frustrated and her mental state is getting worse after each practice. She competed cast- flyaway all season last year and then had giant-flyaway for about 3 months. She's lost everything now and won't...
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    Coaches ROFF BH Mental Block

    I have a 9-year-old kid who has been at level 2 for around a year, year and a half, and has been on pre-team for several years. She has competed 2 seasons of level 2. Her best friend in the class moved up to level 3 this season which upset them both, and I kind of hoped that this would give the...
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    Parents How to deal with dd's tumbling mental block?

    My poor dd age 10 is dealing with this at the moment (very recent issue) she can still do her bhs but apparently freezes when doing her back tuck. Although I did see her doing a double back (spotted) into the pit on Monday night. Also flick on beam seems to have gone. Im so upset for her. I...
  9. Texasmomof3

    Parents Update on mental blocks

    I posted in the summer about my dd developing a mental block on vault. (That level 8 vault is apparently terrifying for some kids). I pointed her to doc Ali but otherwise resisted even talking about it. Then the fear spread to beam. I told her to not worry about it and it would come back...
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    Parents Finally got past her fear/mental block!!

    So, so proud of my DD! She has been working on her blind change for about 6 months now and was convinced that she was never going to get it. A few weeks ago she got close and about face planted into the bar (one her her hands slipped) and that pushed her back, she was afraid to even try it. I...
  11. JakesMom

    Mental Block

    Hello :) My son, 9 P1 had a mental block on HB and PB. He is afraid of heights. The coaches have been fantastic working with him. Every Tues and Thurs He fights coming to gym b/c of those 2 events. I have been giving the tough Love.. Telling him it's ok to have a fear and yo communicate with his...
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  12. Teezi

    WAG Mental Block on backhandsprings on beam?

    Hi, I know there are probably a million different topics already on this but, I fell like I am really stuck here. Whenever I first started competitive gymnastics I had mental blocks on pretty much everything (standing back handsprings/back tucks, round off back handsprings, front handspring...
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    Mental blocks Any advice????

    Hi everyone- I am new to Chalk Bucket and saw this as a great way to find advice. I am a passionate gymnast that really takes it seriously and wants perfection. About 6 months ago...I was doing giant layouts fine. Then one Saturday practice, I fit my toes on the bar so I went up and did it again...
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  14. bridget

    WAG mental block

    I'm new to this so I'm sorry if I didn't post correctly but I have this mental block against flyaways. I could do them and I was never scared of them before but at a meet I pulled in and hit my knees on the bar and fell on my neck. I'm okay now and my coach is working on them again with me but...
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    Parents 7 year old with mental block....ugh!

    My YDD just turned 7. She is level 3 and great on floor. She had her ROBHSBHS and FH by 6. The coaches always comment on how strong she is on floor. We were at an open gym a few weeks ago and I think the kids running around scared her. All of a sudden, she can't/won't do a ROBHS. She will...
  16. flipandfly

    Flyaway Mental Block

    Please give ideas - I am a training five and have all my skills for level five except my flyaway which I just can't get myself to follow through on. I had it a year ago, but lost it, and have a fear of letting go for no reason. I have a month to get it back and am very stressed - and don't want...
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    WAG Flipfest with mental block?

    YDD is 10yo, level 6. She is going with 7 teammates to Flipfest next week. However, she's been struggling with a mental block on back tumbling for about 3 months, and is worried that she'll be put in a different skills group than her teammates. Does anyone know how they separate them? Is it...
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    WAG Gymnast or coach type more likely for mental block?

    Seems to be "contagious" at our gym right now. So it made me wonder if there are certain types of gymnasts or certain coaching styles that seem to induce more mental blocks than others?
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    WAG Mental block - take a break?

    Should my 10 year old level 7 take a break from gymnastics if she is having serious mental blocks across all events? Just wondering if a break would be best or if she should just keep trying to work through it.
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    mental blocks...

    I really struggle with vault. It is the scariest thing to me even though im not advanced at vault. At practice we were practicing with the older levels and so they put the vault setting higher and the board farther away from what im used to. becasue of this, i got nervous a lot and freaked out...

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