Women Will vault ever just click for DD???

[littlegirlsdream]

Ok…my poor kid is/has been trying to master a good vault for, well, all her gymnastics career this far! She is a level 9 (2nd year) and the coaches really want to move her to 10 but do not want her to move quite yet because her vault is..:well not good yet! She competes yurchenko (sp?) pike and it scored last year 8.5-8.8 range. She can sometimes squeak out a layout but it’s definitely not strong enough to compete. This is year 3 of the pike for her. She is also now working yurchenko 1/2 on front off but is very new to that so it will be a while. Anyway..does any one have any fabulous success stories where your gymnast just started clicking and getting this vault thing???

 

[Coach Kate]

I was only an ok vaulter until I started pole vaulting in high school. That's seriously how long it took to click. And then after three years of pole vaulting I quit gymnastics to really focus on it my senior year. Ended up doing track in college.

 

[ZB55]

My daughter's vault improved greatly after her big growth spurt - she was faster and stronger and blocking finally clicked.