stargazer
Gymnast
About 2.5 months ago I decided I wanted to get my front handspring front tuck on floor. I trained them for a little while on rod floor with varying degrees of success about a year ago. Also, I understand the mechanics of the skills much better now and have a significantly better block from my hands than I did a year ago, and figured I might as well try to get it on comp floor. I worked my way up from doing them into the pit (which honestly I despise, I have a thing about tumbling into pits), then onto rod floor and now onto comp floor. Most of the time they are very easy for me on rod floor, and just in the last three weeks or so I have done about 10 on comp floor. The thing is, for no reason at all, I find them quite scary. I KNOW I am fully capable of doing them properly and safely, but some days it's very very hard to get myself to stay tight out of the handspring and throw the front tuck, and not just do yet another set. In case you're wondering, both when I set and when I actually go for the skill my sets are so high I'm flipping over my head height, so that's not the issue. I know that when you're afraid of something you should generally take a step back and do the next easiest skill until you're comfortable, but I can do sets for days and days and it doesn't make a difference. How do I know when to just suck it up and do the skill, or go back to doing drills? Does anyone have any tips, drills or keywords you can suggest that might make this easier? I have a hard time not over-thinking the tuck after the handspring, and it feels so easy when I do go for it, but they still freak me out! I'm an adult gymnast (retired a year ago) so I don't need to get this skill for any reason in particular, but I really want to master it and it's driving me crazy. I'm sure the collective wisdom of those on the chalkbucket can help me out! Sorry for the novel, thanks for reading this far