Hi,
I am the mother of a 15 year who has struggled for 2.5 years to get her BHS. She can do only with a spot and as soon as the person spotting her walks aways she freeezes. The only way she can articulate it to me is by saying, "it feels like what I am asking my body to do is impossible. I cannot even picture or feel how to begin the motion of throwing the BHS. I know I can do it with a spot and it feels easy, but I cannot recall that feeling once they are not there standing beside me." She is frustrated and mad and cannot wrap her head around why she just cannot do the one thing she has practiced for so long. We have tried classes and privates with various coaches and at different gyms and week after week it is like she is learning how to tumble all over again. She cheers so there is the expectation that to tumble. Any thoughts/suggestions? I feel completely helpless and so sad for her. It is hard to watch her work through these emotions and not be able to understand what is happening in her mind/body.
I am the mother of a 15 year who has struggled for 2.5 years to get her BHS. She can do only with a spot and as soon as the person spotting her walks aways she freeezes. The only way she can articulate it to me is by saying, "it feels like what I am asking my body to do is impossible. I cannot even picture or feel how to begin the motion of throwing the BHS. I know I can do it with a spot and it feels easy, but I cannot recall that feeling once they are not there standing beside me." She is frustrated and mad and cannot wrap her head around why she just cannot do the one thing she has practiced for so long. We have tried classes and privates with various coaches and at different gyms and week after week it is like she is learning how to tumble all over again. She cheers so there is the expectation that to tumble. Any thoughts/suggestions? I feel completely helpless and so sad for her. It is hard to watch her work through these emotions and not be able to understand what is happening in her mind/body.