Recent content by CoachAngel

Awesome, thank you for the help!

I have a gymnast who has competed Silver all season. She’s brand new to the gym this season and we discussed prior to the season moving up to Gold midway. She’s been very successful in the past meets (37.05 all around at the last meet) and has the skills for Gold with the exception of an...

Hello all! My gymnasts are working clear hips, and the part they're struggling with is learning to swing them and ride their momentum. They're gripping onto the bar so tightly they can't shift their wrists! They don't need to hit handstand yet, and we do a few drills for these, but I'm hoping...

The two with the biggest issue are 11 and 12 and have both done competitive gymnastics before.

There are 5 who have some very little flubs here and there which I’m not so concerned about, but two who are just totally lost.

I don’t think it’s self-sabotage with these specific girls because in order to be silver at our gym they have to have compete before in gymnastics, so they’ve all learned routines prior to this. Your idea about lack of motivation for the less “fun” areas of gymnastics seems spot on though. They...

I talk to every parent after every practice, and having been telling them this is their “homework” for weeks and weeks now :/

We perform for the rest of the team, but that hasn't seemed to motivate them lately so I'm going to try this tonight! Maybe the pressure of doing the routine in front of kids they aren't comfortable with will do more.

Our Bronze gymnasts get the choice between two floor routines but since Silvers have to have competition experience, they get their own routines. We hadn't anticipated this being a problem since it never has been in the past! I'm just at my wits end as to why they aren't retaining the routines...

I've been a competitive gymnastics coach for seven years now, and this is my second season as the head coach for our Xcel program. I've always choreographed the routines myself and taught them the same way. This season the problem I'm running into is that the Silvers just aren't memorizing their...