Hi
I have a 14 year old girl who learned tuck back somersaults fairly late, at around the age of around 11. She took a long time to learn the skill and has never been completely confident with it, nor has she got great form. The skill is safe though and she has performed the skill regularly over the last 3 years.
Over the last few months she is finding the skill increasingly difficult to do - not physically, but psychologically. She completely refused at one point and there were lots of tears etc as she insisted that she couldn't do it. She won't accept additional spotting and says that makes it worse.
She is managing to do a couple per week however this is taking lots of enouragement and she is getting more and more reluctant, and increasingly stressed over it.
My gut instinct is to leave the skill for a few weeks and then revisit it, however she needs this skill for the level she is competing and can't afford to 'lose' it. My worry with letting her leave it is that she'll stop doing it altogether.
Any ideas?
I have a 14 year old girl who learned tuck back somersaults fairly late, at around the age of around 11. She took a long time to learn the skill and has never been completely confident with it, nor has she got great form. The skill is safe though and she has performed the skill regularly over the last 3 years.
Over the last few months she is finding the skill increasingly difficult to do - not physically, but psychologically. She completely refused at one point and there were lots of tears etc as she insisted that she couldn't do it. She won't accept additional spotting and says that makes it worse.
She is managing to do a couple per week however this is taking lots of enouragement and she is getting more and more reluctant, and increasingly stressed over it.
My gut instinct is to leave the skill for a few weeks and then revisit it, however she needs this skill for the level she is competing and can't afford to 'lose' it. My worry with letting her leave it is that she'll stop doing it altogether.
Any ideas?