Muddlethru
Proud Parent
Is it customary and effective practice to have gymnasts do about a 100 split series on beam? For example, my daughter had to do 50 series of switch leap to back tuck and another 50 tuck 3/4 to split jump. She was "punishing" the team because she thinks their splits don't hit 180. 99% of the team do not have their splits down. Yet, they only stretch once a week and they rarely do lines with active and passive flex. Wouldn't it make more sense to do stretches and exercises to improve splits if she wants to improve their splits? The jumping that many times on beam worries me.
I've been worried about our beam coach's way of improving skills. Maybe I am harshly judging her because I know she has no gymnastics experience. This is her first time coaching beam. She was hired to bridge the gap until we get a beam coach. She's been with us for a year now, But I want to give her credit of her hard work and dedication. But I think her lack of experience could cause injury to our girls.
I feel doing that many jumps on beam (hard surface) could cause overuse of muscles, lost concentration, extremely tire the muscles and make the girls more subject to falls. I feel her MO is to make the girls repeat and repeat the skill until they get it right. She kept two girls doing a floor leap series until they could hit 180. They were doing that for over two hours and even after practice ended, they were still doing it because the could not hit it. My daughter was having trouble doing RO fulls dismount off beam. She had my daughter do it for almost 3 hours over and over again. She made no corrections. Did not provide any drills. Three months later, she cannot help my daughter with the skill. My daughter was doing that dismount at her old gym. This year, she is doing a front layout dismount. Another time, she was punishing the girls by having them do repetitions of their tumbling pass until they kept on falling from exhaustion. This was three days before a meet and two girls had to scratch because their knees were bothering them at the meet. No one did well because they were all sore. She likes to do numbers. But that is all she does. No drills, no corrections, just skill after skill and "assignments" that are impossible to finish. My daughter hates getting an X when she does not compete an assignment. But she says the coach gives impossible assignments. An example of the coach's assignment is do 10 beam routines in 10 minutes without falling. Her beam routine is more than a minute!
If this is ok. I am ok with it. I just want to check with the good coaches at this website. I don't want my daughter hurt. Half our L9 and L10 girls are injured.
I've been worried about our beam coach's way of improving skills. Maybe I am harshly judging her because I know she has no gymnastics experience. This is her first time coaching beam. She was hired to bridge the gap until we get a beam coach. She's been with us for a year now, But I want to give her credit of her hard work and dedication. But I think her lack of experience could cause injury to our girls.
I feel doing that many jumps on beam (hard surface) could cause overuse of muscles, lost concentration, extremely tire the muscles and make the girls more subject to falls. I feel her MO is to make the girls repeat and repeat the skill until they get it right. She kept two girls doing a floor leap series until they could hit 180. They were doing that for over two hours and even after practice ended, they were still doing it because the could not hit it. My daughter was having trouble doing RO fulls dismount off beam. She had my daughter do it for almost 3 hours over and over again. She made no corrections. Did not provide any drills. Three months later, she cannot help my daughter with the skill. My daughter was doing that dismount at her old gym. This year, she is doing a front layout dismount. Another time, she was punishing the girls by having them do repetitions of their tumbling pass until they kept on falling from exhaustion. This was three days before a meet and two girls had to scratch because their knees were bothering them at the meet. No one did well because they were all sore. She likes to do numbers. But that is all she does. No drills, no corrections, just skill after skill and "assignments" that are impossible to finish. My daughter hates getting an X when she does not compete an assignment. But she says the coach gives impossible assignments. An example of the coach's assignment is do 10 beam routines in 10 minutes without falling. Her beam routine is more than a minute!
If this is ok. I am ok with it. I just want to check with the good coaches at this website. I don't want my daughter hurt. Half our L9 and L10 girls are injured.
