I've been working really hard on being less afraid of everything since I started back in gymnastics this summer (I'm 26)... it's been slow getting back my old skills and I'm still working on a bunch BUT I am insanely happy and proud of myself because I have been able to work on my handstand on beam!! I can easily do the level 5 dismount still, but the handstand and cartwheel I have been afraid to do for somewhere around 9 or ten YEARS now. I couldn't do them unless I absolutely had to, just a mental thing. But this makes two weeks in a row I have done them on the high beam. My coach says I'm about ten degrees from horizontal but right now I'm happy with just DOING them, at all, instead of standing on the beam like a nut for like ten minutes at a time thinking about doing them. Next week I might try a cartwheel.
I was also working on my squat on for bars this week, which is a new fear I developed when I came back to the gym! I became afraid of a lot of things apparently that I wasn't before, but every week is a step in the right direction!
~Katy
I was also working on my squat on for bars this week, which is a new fear I developed when I came back to the gym! I became afraid of a lot of things apparently that I wasn't before, but every week is a step in the right direction!
~Katy