Women L7 beam series

[reluctant]

All the posts about stress fractures in girls' backs, confirm my desire to keep my daughter from doing back walkovers on the beam. As she moves to level 7 and needs a series, what are options that don't include a back walkover? She's currently competing back handspring at level 5.

 

[wandrewsjr]

Handstand/BHS or BHS/BHS are most common series without BWO.

 

[MILgymFAM]

My DD has discussed the following options with her coaches:
cartwheel RO
FWO RO
Cw/Cw w/separate RO
handstand splashdown/backward roll w/separate RO.

Any connected acro series will work as long as flight element is somewhere in the routine.

ETA: my DD doesn’t do bwo or bhs. Obviously bhs/bhs or handstand/bhs are more common then my DDs ideas.

 

[gymdoc]

We have several with back issues on our team (and YDD has backwards mental blocks). Not mentioned above
HS-back extension roll
FWO-BHS
back extension roll-BHS

 

[CoachAlex]

If she already trains/competes a BHS then I would go with BHS+BHS as it works for level 7 and 8 and leads nicely to a BHS+LOSO for level 9 (also have seen this at level 8).

 

[sce]

All the posts about stress fractures in girls' backs, confirm my desire to keep my daughter from doing back walkovers on the beam. As she moves to level 7 and needs a series, what are options that don't include a back walkover? She's currently competing back handspring at level 5.

Does she gave trouble with her back or doing cackwakivers? Many kids are actually fine with the skill. Alternative series have been suggested above too though.

 

[sce]

There is also tick-tock back handspring but that still involves an arching skill. I have even seen cartwheel, round-off a d cartwheel-cartwheel
With a seoerate flight skill.

 

[Jard.the.gymnast]

Watch out with anything involving handstands, she has to hold them 2 or 3 (can't remember) full seconds. It's something judges usually are very picky about

 

[wandrewsjr]

It is 2 seconds and handstand can be held in any position. Many hold it in the split position, which is a little easier to hold and lines the gymnast up nicely for stepping into the BHS.

 

[duyetanh]

It is 2 seconds and handstand can be held in any position. Many hold it in the split position, which is a little easier to hold and lines the gymnast up nicely for stepping into the BHS.

I tell ya, we saw a girl get a whopping 9.8 with that exact series...so of course the next practice all the girls wanted to try it, lol

 

[LGnyc]

It is 2 seconds and handstand can be held in any position. Many hold it in the split position, which is a little easier to hold and lines the gymnast up nicely for stepping into the BHS.

The downside - one of our better beam girls, regularly in the 9.4 range, had this as her L7 series. At states, she didn't hold it long enough even in a split and didn't get credit for the series. Lost .5.

 

[reluctant]

Does she gave trouble with her back or doing cackwakivers? Many kids are actually fine with the skill. Alternative series have been suggested above too though.

She can physically do a back walkover on the beam, she just says it hurts, so I'd rather not risk it. She doesn't have any problem sticking the back handspring on the beam. (Can't say the same about the full turn.)

 

[duyetanh]

She can physically do a back walkover on the beam, she just says it hurts, so I'd rather not risk it. She doesn't have any problem sticking the back handspring on the beam. (Can't say the same about the full turn.)

If she says it hurts, she honestly needs to quit doing them before she starts doing the.. Bwo=back killers and dream enders.

 

[reluctant]

If she says it hurts, she honestly needs to quit doing them before she starts doing the.. Bwo=back killers and dream enders.

That's why she's competing back handspring at level 5.

 

[duyetanh]

That's why she's competing back handspring at level 5.

This should give you and her a leg up then with the coaches in terms of a future series.

 

[profmom]

My DD is working a BHS-BHS series but competes CW to RO. She competed HS-BHS at a few meets, but she was the only one on her team to do so because she can basically hold a HS on a beam all day.

 

[SurpriseGymMom]

DD competed HS-BHS her first season of L7, BHS-BHS the second (as well as this season, first L8). She is actively working her BHS-BLO. I don’t really know why, she actually has a pretty BWO but hates it (no back issues) so she never really pursued that, even as a L5 she competed the upgrade BHS for most of the season.
The HSdoes have to be held for at least the required 2sec, and the connection can be hard to get credit for . We do have one girl doing CW-RO as her series, but (I will be completely honest) it is a last resort for a girl who has lost all back tumbling and has siblings on the competitive team so she is given “special consideration”.