Beam help staying on the beam!

[flippymonkeysmom]

There were times with my dd I was tempted to use velcro. Staying tight and finding her balance will come with time and patience though. The good thing is that she won't be afraid of falling off since she has obviously realized it is no big deal.

[gotgym]

Besides the games and patience I can only suggest a little 3 1/2 inch floor beam. Even if she just plays and walks on it. Eventually that 4 inch beam will seem so wide and easy to her.. (something I always use for my younger gymmies that seem to have ants in their pants)

[ShootingStaRr]

i was the same, although i was older i understood that it was bad to fall off.
my all-around score wasn't great and it was because of falling of beam.

i just used to pretend that i had a glass wall around me and if i fell off it broke.
just fight for everything, stay tight and you your core to pull up over the beam.

i agree with the crocodile will eat you up with you fall off, if you use things
like this, it will help them to under stand it isn't a good thing. or also using
incentives for not falling off in a meet.

[jra64]

It's so fun reading such creative responses!

The only thing I don't recommend is giving any sort of conditional love to your DD such as one of the comments threatening to take the DD off the team if she kept falling off. I've always thought the best way to teach is to reward the good and work 'together' on the bad.

[ShootingStaRr]

yeah. try to focus on feeed forward than feedback.