What are some goals everbody has for summer?

[GymDot2x]

Just wondering. I just started last fall, so I have some simple goals like:
-Getting my ROBH on floor (SO close to my standing BH!)
-Handstand and round-off dismount on beam: Any advice for fear issues? I know they're really simple things, but no matter what I'm doing on high beam, I get so freaked out! Like I'm sure I'll fall off.
-Kip on bars? Maybe
-Handspring vault

Feel free to share any skills you want to master this summer.

 

[hawaii_gymnast]

My goal isn't really a skill but here it is anyways.
I want to try and heal my heel up so I can be pain free. And to decide whether I am going to continue competitive gymnastics or not. So confused..

 

[All Chalked Up]

All the bonuses for my level!
- Kip cast to handstand
- FHS-FLY-FT
- Sole circle
- Double turn
-Press handstand mount (beam)
-Flyaway

Maybe RO-BHS-BL and standing back tuck would be cool- I have my standing front so I could flip backwards fowards backwards fwards!

 

[gymnastjaiderz1106]

Oh fun thread! For your fear issues on beam...I was having the same problem! So I want to an open gym, did 10 on low beam.. Then stacked up mats under the high beam (So they are about beam height) and did 10 as FAST as I could, then moved a mat, and continued until it was to the very last mat! The faster I did it the easier, because i couldn't physic myself out! It helped alot..and now im just chucking skills on beam! I feel like I can do anything! Hahah

Bars- Giants, and Flyaway (Just reached 2 of my goals: Cast Handstand on high bar, and sole circle)
Beam- Back handspring, and front walkover (Just achieved BWO x2 on high, and standing tuck on low!)
Vault- Perfect front handsprings!!
Floor- Front handspring, front layout and back half!

This summer....Is going to ROCK!!! I just won the level 5 Utah state bars, floor, and AA title! And on Monday, im starting level 7 at a new gym!!! AHHH

 

[d0nut_l0ver]

My goals are pretty similar to yours.

Floor:
~ROBH
~back extension (which I kinda have but I can't hold the handstand)
~front limber (I guess, we're not really working on them but I just got my front walkover so...)
um.... I think that's it...

Bars:
~Kip (lol maybe... I'm really good with a spot!!)
~stoop (GAH I'm scared to put my feet on the bar!!! I feel like I'll fall forwards!!)
~front hip circle? (for some reason, they don't work with us on this but I want it anyways!!), and... that's about it..

Beam: (I know I'll never meet any of these goals, I'm TOO SCARED!! )
~Cartwheel on high (I have it almost always on low... but I'm scared of high beam!! I've done it on "medium" beam before but now I'm scared of that too!)
~Handstand on high (Not side handstand, but a normal handstand... I'm afraid I'll fall over and DIE!!)
~Back walkover on low (I only recently got it on floor, so I just started it on beam. They're HARD!)
~A GOOD round-off dismount (I know, they're easy, but sometimes I feel like my hands will slip off the beam so I go really slowly and I just, like, plop down...)

Vault:
~Handstand flat back by myself!! (Had it last year... lost confidence in myself... trying to get it again!!)

So... yep!

 

[livelifetumble8dx]

i hope you all get those skills your aiming for! fun thread, i like hearing what other people are working for! haha.

on floor - standing bt + punch front and fhs ft
on beam - bhs stepout
vault - polishing my front handspring
bars - getting my kip on high bar and low w/ grips and fly away

all around, get all my skills for level six so i can start competing in december for level six! good luck everyone <3

 

[GymDot2x]

@gymnastjaiderz1106: Thanks for the advice! I'm going to open gym wednesday, so maybe I'll try that then. And awesome job winning everything you did

@d0nut_l0ver: I feel the same way about handstands on beam! I kick up like halfway...and then I feel like if I go the rest of the way up, I'll like fall off the beam...haha. And same thing with the stoop on bars! If that's similar to a squat-on...I can do it when my coach spots me, but by myself, I don't wanna fall forward. But, what my coach said makes sense; as long as you hold on to the bar, even if you fall forward, you won't fall, just end up upside down.

 

[jenniffir]

for all of those who is scared of a certain skill on beam being because of its height; a beam is a beam is a beam is a beam. No matter how you figured it, it is still 4 inches wide and you have the muscle memory from a lower beam, meaning your body knows how to complete the skill but you first need the confidence to know you can do it. Confidence is key.

Look who is talking though I a headcase.

My Goals:
Floor: layouts and FHS FT (have the power for both of these but i am a headcase)
Beam: BHS 2 ft and flipping a dismount that i have had for like 2 years now
Bars: Giants
Vault: i would like to get back to flipping tsukes into the pit

 

[d0nut_l0ver]

i hope you all get those skills your aiming for! fun thread, i like hearing what other people are working for! haha.

on floor - standing bt + punch front and fhs ft
on beam - bhs stepout
vault - polishing my front handspring
bars - getting my kip on high bar and low w/ grips and fly away

all around, get all my skills for level six so i can start competing in december for level six! good luck everyone <3

FLY AWAYS. ARE. AWESOME. At my gym, if you ask to do a certain skill (that's reasonable) they let you. Like we were just doing pullover, back hip circle, stoop, jump off a thousand times so I asked if they could spot me on my kip and they did. But anyway, if we ask to do Fly aways and the whole group agrees, they spot us on fly aways!!! SO MUCH FUN!! lol that was random but oh well!!

 

[d0nut_l0ver]

@d0nut_l0ver: I feel the same way about handstands on beam! I kick up like halfway...and then I feel like if I go the rest of the way up, I'll like fall off the beam...haha. And same thing with the stoop on bars! If that's similar to a squat-on...I can do it when my coach spots me, but by myself, I don't wanna fall forward. But, what my coach said makes sense; as long as you hold on to the bar, even if you fall forward, you won't fall, just end up upside down.

Yeah I'm less afraid of my stoops (which are squat on's... but at my gym we call them stoops, idk why!!) than of stuff on high beam. if I'm brave I will actually try to do one, but I don't understand how Im supposed to swing my legs onto the bar!! Like I do a cast and try to bring them in and it doesn't work... and no matter what my coaches tell me, I can't get my feet on!!!

And also, I'm less afraid of cartwheels than of handstands. My coach said that I will automatically twist off of my handstand if I start to fall backwards... but I'm not so sure. So they spot me on one on low beam, and I do really well (I'm like the best on beam in my group... most people are still trying to get their cartwheel on low beam) and then they're like "Okay, go to the next beam up" but it's like a foot off the ground!!! GAH!! And as for my cartwheel? IDK. I should do a bunch of cartwheels on low beam until I get 3 in a row. Then go straight to the next beam up, ask for a spot, and then ask them to watch me try it by myself. (if the coaches watch me, I can't chicken out or they'll yell at me! so that's how I do skills I'm afraid to do!!) and then if I get it there, I go to the NEXT beam (which is only an inch or so lower than high beam) and ask for a spot... so on and so on. And we do have a GIGANTIC mat under high beam, so it makes high beam just like a low beam.

 

[Optionals United]

ok i guess i will do my goals fro next season since that is what i will be working on this summer. im going to be competing level 8 and hopefully 9

beam-back tuck split jump on high beam, switch leap staight or tuck jump 3/4, bhs bhs(i chucked 4 on junior beam on saturday so im getting there), ro layout or 1/2 or full, or tuck full. mainly i dont want to be a headcase on beam and go for my skills. also be consistent with going for my skills and not losing my seires twice like i did last year.

bars- shootover horizontal or hs, toe shoot, double back dismount, and giant 1/2. if i can get all those i want my routine to be kip squat on, kip casths, giant 1/2 shootover, kip cast hs clearhip hs toe shoot, kip cast hs giant giant double back.

vault:compete yurchenko. level 8 tuck or pike. level 9 pike layout tuck full?

floor- double full. for my two salto pass either 1 1/2 punch front of layout pike. full for my final pass or 1 1/2 if i do a lay pike for my second pass. double turn. switch leap something. find somehow to get bonus.

 

[gymnastbeth]

I'd like to make it through the summer without any injuries, that would be great!

 

[All Chalked Up]

I'd like to make it through the summer without any injuries, that would be great!

Amen to that!

 

[GymDot2x]

@d0nut_l0ver: ya, same thing with the squat on! I cast, go to bring my feet in, and just don't get my feet there in time before they come back down. And ya...I'm just horrible at beam. :| haha. I mean, I'm pretty good with the jumps and turns, but when it comes to handstands and cartwheels, I freak out. I was at open gym today, and went to do a handstand on low beam, and something in my mind just stops me. I think I'm scared of falling onto the beam, or off the beam, but idk. I guess I'll just keep working at it until my fear goes away.

 

[d0nut_l0ver]

@d0nut_l0ver: ya, same thing with the squat on! I cast, go to bring my feet in, and just don't get my feet there in time before they come back down. And ya...I'm just horrible at beam. :| haha. I mean, I'm pretty good with the jumps and turns, but when it comes to handstands and cartwheels, I freak out. I was at open gym today, and went to do a handstand on low beam, and something in my mind just stops me. I think I'm scared of falling onto the beam, or off the beam, but idk. I guess I'll just keep working at it until my fear goes away.

Today I finally got my cartwheel on high beam! And I landed it like 5 times in a row! But it's still not consistent; I went back to do it later and epically failed. XD Well, not EPICALLY. But I either didn't land completely or landed on the edge and slipped. At least I'm not scared to do one anymore. (well, I kind of am, but not on a beam a foot or so off the ground. Just a real high beam. I have a strange fear of falling off, although I CAN'T get hurt unless I have really bad reflexes! )

I tried a squat on today at gymnastics camp, and the coach had no idea how bad I was... XD and I did the cast, then failed to get my feet anywhere near the bar. Then he held me up in like mid-air for 5 seconds til I got both my feet on. Then he made me jump to high bar, but there was a REASON I didn't want to... my rip hurt REALLY REALLY BAD. So bad, that when I went to re-grip in my tap swing, I let go and almost killed myself by landing on the low beam. But the coach stopped me before I did... Thank goodness!!

Anyway, sorry for the off-topicness... I just like sharing stories. And at camp, on beam, the rest of my group was doing like handstands on beam but I am SCARED! Not a side handstand, but a normal handstand. So I went on the low beam and did them but I'm still scared!! I might ask them to spot me twisting off... which might sound stupid, but I want to know how to twist in the rare occasion that I get all the way up in a handstand. (I usually get 1 ft off the beam. XD) Because not only can I not make sure I don't fall over, but I can't balance with my hands so close together, and I fall completely to the side. It's REALLY scary.

Anyways... good luck to you!! Hope you get those skills soon.

 

[julietaw]

Bars: pullover
Floor: back handspring(cheer), and roundoff
Vault: nothing (I'm a level 1)
Beam: chartwheel and handstand.

 

[gymgirl1129]

So here are some of my goals. Next year I will be a second year level 8:

Vault
- stand up my half-fulls consistently
- work half- 1 1/2

Bars
- cast handstand half- piroutte
- make straddle cut consistent
- fix fly away (I need to learn to let go at the right time)
- free hip with first cast above horizontal and coming out of the free hip at horizontal

Beam
- BHS - BHS series
- switch leap/ jump series
- split jump half

Floor
- 180 switch leap and leap
- back full
- FHS - FT - FT
- I want to also try jump combinations that might earn level 9 bonus

 

[henrik541]

About the fear: if you can do a side handstand, but not the other one, can't you just to that one?
Anyway, try kicking into the handstand in the end of the beam, like, really hard, as if you're going for a front walkover, and twist off, on purpose. That way, you'll lose the fear of doing it, if you fall.
You can also think that you shouldn't be that affraid, since you're not guy. I always wanted to do a side handstand of beam, but that always kept me out of it.

As for goals: I'd like to practice my back handsprings on the beach (if I can't find anywhere with opengym - my gym is closed during the summer), but I need to get over the "backwards-fear!".
I want to get my middle splits a LOT down, standing splits, needle scale, chest stand (and big C, also with feet on floor).
BTW, off-topic: If anyone has tips on this, please tell me or PM me.

 

[d0nut_l0ver]

GymDot, have you got over your mental block on beam yet? Because I have, and this is how.

Well, you read my story above, right? About me getting my cartwheel? The way I did it was I had the coach spot me and then one time, without telling me, she didn't spot me and I landed it, perfectly fine. And then today, 3 days after camp at my actual gym, I was nervous to do my cartwheel again. So I told my coach, "I don't know what to do first!" (I already knew the answer, I just needed her to tell me to do it so I would do it!! ) And she told me to do my cartwheel. And I went for it... the first time, since I was nervous, I was just trying to land, but I got a foot on, and I wasn't so bad!! The next time, I was less scared, and straightened my legs a little more, and tucked my head in... so on and so on until I could actually land a good cartwheel.

And guess what? Following that cartwheel, I got my handstand on beam by myself, the same way. The coach was spotting me lightly, then suddenly, she didn't spot me and I did fine. (I didn't HOLD the handstand, but what do you expect, I just learned it!! ) And then I was doing round off dismounts and instead of swinging my legs around to the side, I did perfectly fine and I wasn't scared.

So now I'm over my fear and since I practically ran out of level 4 skills to do, my coach is letting me do level 5 dismounts and front handspring dismounts. I just wanted to prove to you that you CAN do it, and when you get over your fear, you will be SO relieved!!! Keep on going, you're still an awesome gymnast.

 

[GetaGrip]

This summer I would basically like to get my level 8 skills down solid and clean. But skills I want to do for FUN are:

-paks without the pad, maybe by myself!
-double backs on bars
-hects
-bhs bhs on beam
-sheep jump on beam
-start twisting my front aerial off of beam
-double backs on tt w/ out a spot
-front fulls on tt
-1 1/2 back layout on tt
-ro layout 1/2 front tuck on floor
-switch sides on floor!

Okay okay I know the list is long but hey! Dream big right?