Beam - Series Connection - Page 2

gmom46 · #11 03-09-2008, 07:41 PM

FYI, my daughters meet went well, although it was USAIGC this time, not USAG and the scoring seems higher. She competes as Gold Level (she is level 8 in USAG). She did NOT do the series BT/BHS, but rather BHS/BHS. She still is slow in connecting them, but stayed on beam the whole time and got a 8.7...so much better...and hopefully will continue. Thanks for responses to me posts.

lannamavity · #12 03-10-2008, 12:13 AM

FYI

If an athete is spotted by a coach and then falls...she only gets -.5 for the spot AND fall...not both.

...and a back tuck/back handspring is a viable tumbling pass, though not as "progressive" for future, higher level series. If the connection is just as "iffy" between back handspring/backhandspring, maybe the coach feels that the athlete is going to put more effort into the back tuck before the backhandspring. It sounds like the actions of a desprate coach trying to help the gymnast.

gmom46 · #13 03-10-2008, 10:52 AM

Well she went back to the BHS/BHS, and did better. She is going to try to work more on the connection, which really is where her problem is. Not with landing the skills...which she can do. I'm sure the coaches are a bit frustrating, and perhaps had their reasons. My daughters goal is to get the connection and make is a BHS/BT series. So, I am keeping my fingers crossed that the connection will continue to get better until she has it.

gymgymgymnast08 · #14 03-10-2008, 02:13 PM

I am a level 8 and I do bhs bhs

gmom46 · #15 03-10-2008, 04:20 PM

Hi gymgymgymnast08. Can you tell me if you do your series connection quickly? And, if so, how did you mentally do it? I think my daughter has the fear of just going for it and missing. She knows if she does them with a pause she will land them, but she is losing the points on the connection. Any ideas?

**hammy** · #16 03-10-2008, 06:23 PM

I just thought of something to help your daughter try to make the connection faster. We used to do tons of handstand backhandsprings to work on our connection. We did these because essentially, the handstand step down is the last half of the bhs, which is where people have trouble connecting it to another skill. Perhaps your daught could work on doing that series as a warm up/practice for the connection. Who knows, it could all come down to the handstand step down part of the skill.

gmom46 · #17 03-10-2008, 07:16 PM

Thanks for continuing to think of her and ways to help. I actually just called her to read your response and she tried just a few on the floor. She told me this was actually the way she used to warm up before doing a bhs on the beam...so it was a good reminder to her, and who knows, maybe it will help make the connection faster.