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So I am sure most every mom here would say this, but my daughter is a daredevil... heck that's why she likes gymnastics right?
She's been training L5 since the beginning of the year and she has a meet coming up shortly as we compete a Spring and Fall/Winter season. She really wanted to compete L5 but in order to do so they have to be 3 event ready. They haven't started the FX choreography training yet so that event can't be one of the three so I schedule a private to see about the other three.
Vault - Fine, though not gorgeous her coach has no worries about vault.
Beam - Fine, cartwheel probably only at 75% but consistent enough it seems.
And then she get to bars which is her best event and her coach is like, well let's see how far we get. She kips up all fine and dandy a few times (she is so proud she can kip) so she goes for the connection... Kip, FHC, cast, cast squat on...
She hits the squat on, looks up at the high bar that she's jumped to so many times (just not in combination) and just steps forward off the bar. Her coach looked at her like she was from Mars and says, "You didn't jump". My daughter nods and tries it again... This time she stands up and steps forward off the bar with one arm out with this look of death on her face.
They move to a different bar and she does just cast squat on jump offs for about ten minutes, they're fine... Heck she's had that skill for months... She moves back to the real bars and again, no jumping - just complete panic. Her coach looks at me and says, "she can do all the hard stuff, we just gotta get her to the high bar..."
After about 20 minutes and only actually grabbing the high bar once (with no swing to kip) we decide to go home for the day and my daughter has a complete nervous breakdown in the car. Apparently she is just terrified of jumping to the high bar out of the cast squat on and now feels like she blew all chances of ever being a level 5 (she's a little dramatic for sure)...
Has anyone else's daughter feared this skill?
She's been training L5 since the beginning of the year and she has a meet coming up shortly as we compete a Spring and Fall/Winter season. She really wanted to compete L5 but in order to do so they have to be 3 event ready. They haven't started the FX choreography training yet so that event can't be one of the three so I schedule a private to see about the other three.
Vault - Fine, though not gorgeous her coach has no worries about vault.
Beam - Fine, cartwheel probably only at 75% but consistent enough it seems.
And then she get to bars which is her best event and her coach is like, well let's see how far we get. She kips up all fine and dandy a few times (she is so proud she can kip) so she goes for the connection... Kip, FHC, cast, cast squat on...
She hits the squat on, looks up at the high bar that she's jumped to so many times (just not in combination) and just steps forward off the bar. Her coach looked at her like she was from Mars and says, "You didn't jump". My daughter nods and tries it again... This time she stands up and steps forward off the bar with one arm out with this look of death on her face.
They move to a different bar and she does just cast squat on jump offs for about ten minutes, they're fine... Heck she's had that skill for months... She moves back to the real bars and again, no jumping - just complete panic. Her coach looks at me and says, "she can do all the hard stuff, we just gotta get her to the high bar..."
After about 20 minutes and only actually grabbing the high bar once (with no swing to kip) we decide to go home for the day and my daughter has a complete nervous breakdown in the car. Apparently she is just terrified of jumping to the high bar out of the cast squat on and now feels like she blew all chances of ever being a level 5 (she's a little dramatic for sure)...
Has anyone else's daughter feared this skill?