It was weird, she can’t point it back to anything. She just said it feels different and like even when she thinks she can go back her body doesn’t let her. She has beautiful form so no issue there but I agree she has to lay down her pride and get back to basics for awhile. If we get closer to season and still struggle I will ask about the tsuk. She wants to call it quits but I feel like she should wait a few months.
She really should take the coach advice and go back to basics. Let her know that even elites work basics! She needs to work her way back up to the skills.
My OG developed a mental block on her back tuck on floor, her BWO on beam, and her flyaway all in the same season. This was after being able to do a BWO-BWO on beam over the summer (I even got video of it). She finished out the season and decided to keep going, hoping to have everything back for the new season.
She decided to "retire" at the end of August because she was still blocked on all 3 skills. However, she missed it so much. HC said she could come back and even compete a level down, but she didn't want that. She said she would rather compete her level, but with downgraded skills.
After the first meet of the season, we realized she had another option - Xcel (the year, pre-Nationalization, when each region had their own rules for each level). She came back as an Xcel Gold. Our team had 2 other Golds ... one had been dealing with mental blocks and had "retired," and the other one was 14 years old and 5'8" tall.
The 3 of them made a great team.
It took OG 18 months (from the start of it) to get over the block on her back tuck. She went back to basics - basically starting over. Once she finally had it on air track, it still took her a few months to do it on the floor without a spot.
She was able to get her BWO up to the low beam with a spot in 9 months. She started with a line on the floor, then floor beam, then low beam with stacked panel mats. After 9 months, she was almost ready to do it on low beam without a spot, but she developed back issues and had to stop working them.
She never did get over her block on the flyaway, but could work around it.