Ginger
Proud Parent
I posted here before about my daughter struggling with her squat on. She can do it now, but she keeps her ‘shoot thru’ style – meaning, she places her right foot on the bar first, then her left foot joins, she stands up and jumps. She is quite consistent in these not-so-good-looking squat ons, and I believe it would clean up with more time and practice (her older sister started it the same way and now after about 2 months, she can keep her feet together with no problem), but her coach claims (or so my daughter tells me) that she can’t do it this way and that she needs to keep her feet together (maybe she is worried about a bad habit hard to get rid of?)
My daughter is very stressed out about this one skill. She claims she can’t keep her legs/feet together no matter how hard she tries, so either she does it her ‘shoot thru’ style (which her coach is not happy with), or she fails to do it (and then she isn’t allowed to do the high bar portion of her L4 routine).
In your opinion, is this something that can be fixed in one hour of one-to-one time, a.k.a private lesson? I am not sure, because - as I mentioned above – I believe she just needs time and practice (but she actually doesn’t get much practice at this point, because she is so stressed that she tries to avoid bars - takes a lot of bathroom or water breaks during bars, messes up her beam assignments on purpose so she can stay on beam rather than go to bars, etc). I am trying to find a way to help her.
I searched older threads here to get some ideas. She can do it on the edge of 30’ bed with no problem, or jump from push up position to squat position. Anything else she can practice at home?
My daughter is very stressed out about this one skill. She claims she can’t keep her legs/feet together no matter how hard she tries, so either she does it her ‘shoot thru’ style (which her coach is not happy with), or she fails to do it (and then she isn’t allowed to do the high bar portion of her L4 routine).
In your opinion, is this something that can be fixed in one hour of one-to-one time, a.k.a private lesson? I am not sure, because - as I mentioned above – I believe she just needs time and practice (but she actually doesn’t get much practice at this point, because she is so stressed that she tries to avoid bars - takes a lot of bathroom or water breaks during bars, messes up her beam assignments on purpose so she can stay on beam rather than go to bars, etc). I am trying to find a way to help her.
I searched older threads here to get some ideas. She can do it on the edge of 30’ bed with no problem, or jump from push up position to squat position. Anything else she can practice at home?