trampolinemom
Proud Parent
With nationals coming sunday my trampolining DS is suffering from a mental block on his first skill of his voluntary routine, a rudi out piked (a double somersault, in piked position with 1,5 twists in the second somersault) In fact he has mild blocks on nearly all his double somersaults, but this one is worse. He says he simply doesn't know how to throw this skill anymore. He is 10 years old and competing his first year at FIG youth elite level . It took him 3 years to reach this level, which is pretty quick. Normally he is competing a five double and five single somersault routine. He has done this routine for about six monthis now and competed it succesfully a couple of times.
But now things are different. He stops, doesn't start, gets upset. Coach tried different aproaches, some work better than others. He manages to jump a couple of routines per training when pushed through the other part of training is drama. He now is scared of the upcoming nationals that he won't be able to do his routine. So far I think his coach does not allow him to downgrade his routine . So I am playing my everything is going to be allright , it is not the end of the world but just another competition part. But in reality I am quite nervous for him and not as relaxed as I want to be.
So please tell me this will pass.
But now things are different. He stops, doesn't start, gets upset. Coach tried different aproaches, some work better than others. He manages to jump a couple of routines per training when pushed through the other part of training is drama. He now is scared of the upcoming nationals that he won't be able to do his routine. So far I think his coach does not allow him to downgrade his routine . So I am playing my everything is going to be allright , it is not the end of the world but just another competition part. But in reality I am quite nervous for him and not as relaxed as I want to be.
So please tell me this will pass.