Women Mental Block

[iLUVgymnastics:)]

I am currently a second xcel gold gymnast and started gymnastics 3 years ago.

In my experience on my gymnastics team I have had close to the same floor skills because I keep losing my round off back handspring. On my 3 years of being on my team, I have lost my ROBHS 3 times and currently working through a 4th mental block on my ROBHS. I feel I am not able to make much progress since many things stem from ROBHS. Surprisingly, my floor skills were best on my first year of silver on my team. I could do multiple backhand spring in a row and was even learning to back tuck. (I was able to do a back tuck by myself off the tumble track). I believe that if I had not lost my ROBHS so much I would be in xcel platinum by now.

Since I am constantly trying to get back my ROBHS I feel like I can’t focus on other areas as much as I could.

Due to the constant loss of this skill I did lose my love for gymnastics for a period of time but now I think I am regaining the joy I once had thankfully. Everytime I lose it my I am not sure why and it gets quite frustrating. I really want my ROBHS to stay because I want to expand my floor skills. I’m wondering if it is because of the age I started gymnastics since I started kinda late at 11.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Can you do standing BHS?

 

[iLUVgymnastics:)]

Can you do standing BHS?

Yes I can

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Alright next step: can you do standing BHS-BHS?

 

[iLUVgymnastics:)]

Alright next step: can you do standing BHS-BHS?

No, not at the moment, I haven’t tried it very recently.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

That's where I'd start. In general, here's how you break it down (and I'd do this first on a tumbletrak, then transfer the entire process to floor)

1. Standing BHS that starts and finishes in question mark shape. That is, knees slightly bent, back round, head down, arms down and forward, so your body is shaped like a ? if the dot were below the floor. The goal is to be able to stick the BHS -- no rebound! -- in exactly the same position you started it from.
2. ?-shape, standing BHS, stick in ?-shape, freeze. DO NOT move your feet. DO NOT let your arms swing back. From that position, do another standing BHS. The idea is that you can stop as long or as short as you need to in between the two BHSs, but during that stop you absolutely cannot move your feet from where they landed, and you cannot swing your arms back from where they were when you landed.
3. Repeat step 2, but try to make the whole thing as long as possible. The longer your travel distance, the better.
4. Repeat step 2, but make the pause in between the first and second BHS a little bit shorter.
5. Repeat step 4
6. Repeat step 4 again.
7. Repeat step 4 until you're not really stopping between the two BHSs, and they're fully connected.

Take your time on this. If any particular step is scary, look for ways to break it down further until it's not scary anymore. Don't skip anything, don't rush anything.

Once you can confidently do standing 2BHS, you're going to replace the first BHS with a roundoff, preferably from a knee lunge or at most a fall-step. The snap at the end of the RO should be identical to that of your standing BHS; you land in ?-shape, then sit back into the next BHS. Just like in the standing BHS-BHS, you can pause in between, as long as that pause is frozen in ?-shape and you do not move your feet or swing your arms during the pause.

Hopefully this all makes sense; let me know if you want a further breakdown of any of it, or if you have any other questions.

 

[iLUVgymnastics:)]

That's where I'd start. In general, here's how you break it down (and I'd do this first on a tumbletrak, then transfer the entire process to floor)

1. Standing BHS that starts and finishes in question mark shape. That is, knees slightly bent, back round, head down, arms down and forward, so your body is shaped like a ? if the dot were below the floor. The goal is to be able to stick the BHS -- no rebound! -- in exactly the same position you started it from.
2. ?-shape, standing BHS, stick in ?-shape, freeze. DO NOT move your feet. DO NOT let your arms swing back. From that position, do another standing BHS. The idea is that you can stop as long or as short as you need to in between the two BHSs, but during that stop you absolutely cannot move your feet from where they landed, and you cannot swing your arms back from where they were when you landed.
3. Repeat step 2, but try to make the whole thing as long as possible. The longer your travel distance, the better.
4. Repeat step 2, but make the pause in between the first and second BHS a little bit shorter.
5. Repeat step 4
6. Repeat step 4 again.
7. Repeat step 4 until you're not really stopping between the two BHSs, and they're fully connected.

Take your time on this. If any particular step is scary, look for ways to break it down further until it's not scary anymore. Don't skip anything, don't rush anything.

Once you can confidently do standing 2BHS, you're going to replace the first BHS with a roundoff, preferably from a knee lunge or at most a fall-step. The snap at the end of the RO should be identical to that of your standing BHS; you land in ?-shape, then sit back into the next BHS. Just like in the standing BHS-BHS, you can pause in between, as long as that pause is frozen in ?-shape and you do not move your feet or swing your arms during the pause.

Hopefully this all makes sense; let me know if you want a further breakdown of any of it, or if you have any other questions.

Thanks I will try this