WAG The "Skill Bucket" Theory... Did Simone Fill Up Her Bucket?

[JBS]

Read our little theory at the following link and let me know what you think...

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[JBS]

How many skills is too many for one athlete?​

 

[novagymmom]

I think that's a very interesting theory. I can certainly imagine how easy it would be for muscle memory to get confused on 2 different valuts with the same entry - one with more flipping and the other with more twishting. Interesting.

 

[MuggleMom]

From what I have read here and there Aly Raisman was talking about how difficult the prep for Vault was at the Olympics especially if you are working on two different entries etc for vault finals. Between the practices and competing and travel and stress you almost dont know whats going on by the end of it. If most competitors are working on two and find that stressful and difficult imagine working on essentially 3 different vaults and all those balls of what will I do being up in the air.

 

[gymjunkie]

I think she put too many new skills in too short of a time frame into her skill bucket.

 

[JBS]

If most competitors are working on two and find that stressful and difficult imagine working on essentially 3 different vaults and all those balls of what will I do being up in the air.

It's funny... personally... I don't consider working on 2 or 3 vaults very stressful. What I do find stressful (in my mind right now) is working on 2 vaults with the same entry and completely different post flights. Even more so... the two exact vaults that she is working seem like they could potentially cause problems with each other.

 

[ReluctantGymMom]

I think there is a skill bucket, and it’s prob different for different kids but when mine hyper focuses on getting a skill - something else gets booted out. When there’s no stress and it’s just training, she can keep filling that bucket. But the second someone says “you’re going to do this skill” (when it’s not perfect, on an event she’s not comfortable with) - it goes out the dang window.

From the coaches perspective, it’s a vote of confidence - she’s telling her she believes she can do this, others have been given easier dismounts so it’s not a matter of being a stickler for “we only do this”. But for my kid… you’ve now put expectations on her that she feels like she’s failing to meet.

Nothing makes a bucket shrink quite like stress and expectation. My kid had a season where she won every meet at bars (she’s generally won every meet at every level when she hasn’t fallen) - on the way to states, her favorite coach, who has known has since she was a toddler, gave her a hug and told her to go win bars and she’s going to be watching her.

I saw the look on her face the second she said she was going to be watching her. My god, that meet was a train wreck, bars was a train wreck. People don’t realize the kind of stress they put on elementary school kids, let alone the world on Simone

 

[Aussie_coach]

So people’s opinion on the skill bucket theory? Would the same thing apply in all areas or life? Education for example, overworked people etc.