Coaches Fear of heights

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My son is 10, level 5 division 1. He's doing wonderfully, with one exception--he is afraid of heights. On the "lower" high bar, he can do a beautiful clear hip handstand, and cast handstand in both forward and reverse grip. When he is hand spotted, he has great giants. On pbars, he can easily do the straddle press handstand bonus, finishing in a straight body handstand with head aligned, just so long as the rails are all the way down. As soon as its at competition height (and he's tiny, so that's like only 4 clicks up), that handstand and his swing handstands aren't full handstands and/or his head is sticking way out. Its clearly a protective position for him. He doesn't do the press handstand on the high set of rings yet, but I don't know if that's due to ability or fear.

Has anyone else dealt with this? How??? His coaches are INCREDIBLE and have been working through this, but I'm looking for any way I can help too. Its really starting to affect his love of the sport. He was regional high bar champion the past two seasons, so this has been frustrating for him, not placing at all this season. He is doing 5d1 again next season, so we have time, but the mom in me hurts for him!