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  1. L

    Parents Help with confidence

    My daughter has been competing for a few years and is now at level 6. She competes on a team with her best friend. This friend is super competitive and gets mad if my daughter scores higher than her. This carries over into school. As a result of this, my daughter does not try her best in...
  2. Splat

    WAG Confidence issues?

    A few months ago I landed on my head doing a FHSFT while doing a routine. I have been checked out and I'm physically fine. Since then I have almost stopped doing the tumbling pass. With help from my coaches we have broke it down and worked on it in parts. I can usually do it with someone...
  3. Flip4funmom

    Parents Confidence question

    As some of you know we recently had a forced gym switch. Things are going about as well as can be expected moving so close to meet season but we're having the biggest struggle with my son's confidence. He was never allowed to try skills without a spot at his old gym and the trend is continuing...
  4. G

    Parents When confidence isn't there

    We switched gyms earlier this year from a place where it was the norm for kids to be treated badly if they messed up, be sent to climb the rope if a skill was missed or to be sent to condition if they didn't get something right. Since the switch my dd has felt she can't make mistakes, gets...
  5. M

    Parents Scratch over confidence issues?

    How do you deal with a kid who insists upon destroying herself from the inside? Tinker Bell got off to a great start in L4. She came home from practice happy every day, was making great progress in terms of skills and form, and had a nice solid performance at the in-house meet. Then two things...
  6. Jard.the.gymnast

    Coaches Coaching with confidence

    So I have been a coach for a few months now and I feel like I am getting better, but I am not as confident as I can be. How can I get more confident in my coaching?
  7. Butterfly

    Parents When coach has more confidence

    It's so hard to be a parent. My daughter is in between levels and I might be one of the rare parents asking for her to repeat the level. Head coach respectfully tells me we can do that but she doesn't think it's the best place for DD, that she thinks she can do next level, will get skills...
  8. G

    Parents Gaining confidence

    My daughter is repeating level 4 and my hope for her this season is to gain confidence in herself and just let go. I don't know how to help her with this. She is shy and quiet, and I really wish she could see herself through my eyes. I think she is amazing. She is a kind teammate and so hard...
  9. J

    WAG Confidence issues

    I haven't been real motivated to go to gym lately. My best friend practices with Xcel gold and will most likey be competing for silver. I feel like I'm too old and too advanced for the silver group, but if I were to practice with the gold, I feel like I wouldn't do as well. When I practice in...
  10. V

    WAG Building up confidence?

    I recently learned how to do my ROBH on the air track but I can't do it without a spot putting a hand on my back. I know this is completely in my head as I've been told for awhile now that I'm not requiring any spotting. How do I build up my confidence? I'd like to be able to learn my ROBH on...
  11. G

    Parents Getting Confidence back after multiple injuries

    My 12 year old daughter is a Level 9 gymnast who has had back to back injuries (stress fracture in her foot and then fracture in her hand that she needed surgery for ) . She has been cleared to return to full gymnastics . She has done a great job keeping herself strong during this time . She has...
  12. All Chalked Up

    WAG Instilling confidence in gymnasts

    Last night my coach told me "you do not understand how good you could be if you would just have some confidence in yourself". It's true, I never really have much confidence in what I'm doing, be it a simple back tuck or a double back! I always KNOW I can do skills; I just don't THINK I can do...
  13. Gym proud

    Parents Confidence

    How do you help to build confidence in your child as a gymnast? DD has some decent skills, excellent form, good strength. Excellent coaching- in a group with kids significantly older and much better than she. Floor confidence appears from time to time- but her lack of confidence really shows in...
  14. G

    Parents Confidence after surgery

    My 11 yr old level 9 is having hand surgery Sept 12th. She has a fracture of the hook of the hamate bone (one of the carpal bones) that isnt healing on its own so they have to cut the fractured piece off(excision) . She will be casted 1 week and then therapy, total recovery 6-8 weeks mainly to...
  15. skschlag

    MAG Confidence shaken

    So, I have never had to even think about this with D, but was hit with it today. He had a great state meet, but in the last week, seems to be sliding. He is struggling with skills that he has done all year. And he just seems defeated. Last week he just maintained, working the same stuff...
  16. R

    Parents Confidence shattered

    My eldest (9) has a 4 piece comp coming up (it's local, not-grades) - she was all excited and keen. Her coaches had really boosted her up, telling her how well she can do and using her to demonstrate etc. Then they realised she's a year older than they thought, so she has to change her routines...
  17. CreateMagic

    Coaches Building power and confidence

    Background: I currently coach a 10 (almost 11)-year-old gymnast, xcel silver (but really a bronze skill set--does anyone else hate the extreme crossover of skills for the xcel divisions???). She did a year of preteam, then two years of bronze, and now silver, mostly because she's the oldest in...
  18. G

    Parents Losing confidence on the beam

    My dd is a 9 year old level 7 that had a pretty scary beam fall in December. (Missed her hands on her bhs bhs series.) She became very scared after that. She seems to have lost all of her old confidence after that fall and her beam scores have definitely suffered. She actually has fallen off...
  19. LIGYMMOM

    WAG Needs more confidence at meets

    It is so frustrating! DD is amazing at practice. Her vault is fast and powerful, beam is nice and fluid. Seems to be at the top of her group in many areas. Then she gets to a meet and her nerves get the best of her. Her vault is slow and labored, she gets over mostly by her strength, and her...
  20. T

    Parents DD struggling with lack of confidence & driving me nuts

    Hello again everyone! DD is 7 and made the "new" level 3 team. She is a powerful little kid, freakishly strong and has picked up things quickly (she just started gymnastics this time last year) so far so good.....and she has zero confidence in herself and it's beginning to wear on me. I know...

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