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Lots of good responses here. We think of short term memory as this uniform zone where stuff sits waiting to be used, to be placed in long-term memory, or be discarded. Maybe it's not so uniform.... Someone on another forum had suggested song or rhyme. In short term memory, perhaps song isn't...

That is his diagnosis. He has a learning disability called short-term memory deficit.

The kid is 13, 14 according to USAG. He's always been a little difficult, but had much less trouble with this when he was younger. Does this stuff get worse around puberty?

I'm hoping someone can suggest strategies for coaching an athlete with short-term memory deficits. The athlete in question is a trampolinist. His skills and positions are very good, and he can do level 6 and 7 compulsory routines. However, he can forget where he is in his routine. He can...

That is good advice that I will heed. Collaborating with her coach(es) is good for a whole host of reasons beyond keeping the girl in question safe. They do a lot of trampoline work for diving at their facility, but I'm sure we'd have some other kids and coaches coming in for training at our...

As I said, she is avoiding us until after nationals next week. Interesting about no required twisting until 12-13. In trampoline world, it's not age but level, and we have 10 year-old level 10s. They are rare but they exist, and although they need to meet a rotation requirement at level 10...

It's not the landing that she finds confusing. She finds her feet perfectly well. It is the set that is different. In trampoline, we set to go up and not travel. I'm more worried about her ending up close to the board, or not spinning quite fast enough, after we get done with her. I've...

We just had a new 10-year-old girl join trampoline, and she is one of the most coachable kids I have ever seen. She is going to lay off practice for a couple of weeks because she has diving nationals next week, and the trampoline is starting to confuse her about technique. She will be back...

I see you are Canadian, so not everything I say will apply to you. I also cannot tell whether you are male of female. I'm one of those odd folks who has moved from coaching and judging in the boy's program to coaching T&T. Actually, that would just be T... we don't do much with the tumbling...

I just watched a Youtube video of Austin White on Double Mini, paused it, and watched the transition from the floor to the apparatus frame by frame. He does not jump up onto the DMT. He picks up his feet out in front of him, knees bent, with his butt at DMT level, and as he hits the front of...

This happened to one of our trampoline kids, a boy, who suddenly stopped being able to do a back tuck. My guess is that he had a growth spurt and suddenly, nothing felt right. He won trampoline at Fairland, and qualified for Nationals at the state meet. Then, he became convinced that he was...

I have a different take on this. Even though I coach trampoline at the upper levels, and most of our team kids are young, my real interest is in keeping the sport popular into the adult years. When I was young, gymnastics was something that you picked up in middle school and high-school, and...

I did not observe this, but the kid apparently has had a growth spurt recently, so things may be feeling odd for that reason. GT

Thanks. Glad to hear this problem has a name. We have 10 level 6 kids. 9 responded to treatment, and are taking off without the crowhop. Number 10 melted down. He liked to stomp the bed as well... not only did he crow-hop, but he did so with authority. I think I must have taken away...

I think I'm going to go insane. Our regional meet is less than 2 weeks out, and I have a level 6 kid who can score mid 8s on tramp who has suddenly lost the ability to do a back pike or back tuck. We had been doing drills to try and get rid of a few bad habits; for instance, he likes to...