KipWinger
Proud Parent
- Aug 5, 2018
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Hope everyone is hanging in there. Here’s another non-coronavirus topic...
Considering the meet cancellations, this may be irrelevant, but my daughter has been struggling with a mental block on her beam BHS. She’s had several injuries this year, including one that occurred during a beam BHS. She had been making progress recently (she’s been doing it on the low beam ), but this week her coach said he’d scratch her from competing beam at her next meet if she didn’t compete her BHS, and she broke down.
It’s not a required skill at her non-JO level (she only needs 1 B skill, which she already has) and she’s been doing well at meets without it.
I generally don’t like the use of threats as motivators so I spoke to her coach about this, and he thinks she needs a push because he knows she can do it. There have been multiple girls with blocks in the gym and I know he’s used this approach before. What do you think? Would your gyms do this?
Considering the meet cancellations, this may be irrelevant, but my daughter has been struggling with a mental block on her beam BHS. She’s had several injuries this year, including one that occurred during a beam BHS. She had been making progress recently (she’s been doing it on the low beam ), but this week her coach said he’d scratch her from competing beam at her next meet if she didn’t compete her BHS, and she broke down.
It’s not a required skill at her non-JO level (she only needs 1 B skill, which she already has) and she’s been doing well at meets without it.
I generally don’t like the use of threats as motivators so I spoke to her coach about this, and he thinks she needs a push because he knows she can do it. There have been multiple girls with blocks in the gym and I know he’s used this approach before. What do you think? Would your gyms do this?