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CoachGoofy
I'm stuck on this one.
I've got an athlete who has a fantastic standing backhandspring, and a workable roundoff, and a good snapdown.
She is absolutely. terrified. to do a snapdown backhandspring or a roundoff backhandspring. Her exact words are "I feel like I am going to die". She had a similar mental block with a back tuck on trampoline this year and a front tuck last year. She's an overthinker. Love her to bits. But. She thinks.
Now, if she was smaller, we'd do snapdown backhandspring with a heavy spot (read as: Coach goofy makes the rebound into a backhandspring). I asked her if she'd be willing to do that and she looked at me like I was nuts and said "yeah good luck with that"-which is fair. Some kids will jump back if they think I will do all the work, she is not one of them, & I need her cooperation at least on direction to flip her (which she knows and told me she knows all on her own).
It's time to progress beyond standing bhs and I'm running out of ideas. We've done snapdowns off a mat into a backhandspring...except she won't jump back on the rebound.
What are some good drills to get her into a position where rebounding into the BHS is easier than rebounding up? I'm pretty sure once she feels it she'll be willing to do it again and again, based on her history, but she has to do the first 1, or 5, or 10, to trust herself. And I don't want this to turn into a bigger mental block than it already is, she needs a break from feeling she HAS to do skills that she doesn't trust herself to do.
(Yes. vestibular issues & very in her head gymnast = good thing we're patient I think)
I've got an athlete who has a fantastic standing backhandspring, and a workable roundoff, and a good snapdown.
She is absolutely. terrified. to do a snapdown backhandspring or a roundoff backhandspring. Her exact words are "I feel like I am going to die". She had a similar mental block with a back tuck on trampoline this year and a front tuck last year. She's an overthinker. Love her to bits. But. She thinks.
Now, if she was smaller, we'd do snapdown backhandspring with a heavy spot (read as: Coach goofy makes the rebound into a backhandspring). I asked her if she'd be willing to do that and she looked at me like I was nuts and said "yeah good luck with that"-which is fair. Some kids will jump back if they think I will do all the work, she is not one of them, & I need her cooperation at least on direction to flip her (which she knows and told me she knows all on her own).
It's time to progress beyond standing bhs and I'm running out of ideas. We've done snapdowns off a mat into a backhandspring...except she won't jump back on the rebound.
What are some good drills to get her into a position where rebounding into the BHS is easier than rebounding up? I'm pretty sure once she feels it she'll be willing to do it again and again, based on her history, but she has to do the first 1, or 5, or 10, to trust herself. And I don't want this to turn into a bigger mental block than it already is, she needs a break from feeling she HAS to do skills that she doesn't trust herself to do.
(Yes. vestibular issues & very in her head gymnast = good thing we're patient I think)