Parents Bruising on ankles ??

[Gymmom82773]

My daughter just learned a back tuck on the beam and is doing a round off full dismount . From doing so many round offs and back tucks on the beam , she has significant bruising along with a " bump " on the inside of her ankle from banging them together . Anyone else experience this ? She ices them but it keeps happening .

 

[Fliptwisttumble]

A girl at our gym fractured the inside of her foot by jamming her heel of her other foot into it while landing back tucks on the beam........ Sounded quite similar at the outset.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

you take some foam and tape it on. no reason to keep doing that.

 

[htimcj]

My DD did that a lot at first. Had wonderful bruises. She seems to have figured it lately though. I am not sure what exactly she changed but it works.

 

[GymMomK]

Yep, my DD did that, too. She also did it with her knees while learning double backs. Eventually, though, she stopped doing it.