9 yr old level 6 gymnastic is having a horrible season. She started with hitting all her skills regularly to crumbling under pressure and having mental block after mental block.
We have 1 coach. She is young. She was a college gymnast and she is a fantastic coach for the most part. There are only 4 girls in the morning program. 1 level 8 and 3 level 6.
We have just competed a meet where my daughter fell off her cartwheel back tuck (2x). She recently started having mental blocks and her coach is really not budging on giving her any other options. She wants all the girls doing all the same skills. Fine, but we only practiced 3 days the week of the meet and the girls had 3 days off before they competed.
Same with her bar routine. She had her full bar routine
Kip cast to handstand
Clear hip to above horizontal
Squat on
Kip cast to above horizontal
Tuck fly away.
1 week ago my gymnast lost every bit of it. She can't connect any of it. She can kip on both bars but can't do anything out of it.
Fine, mental block. Her bar routine was changed at the last 2 hour practice (she normally practices 4 hours) her bar was changed to
Kip
Squat on
Kip
Cast
Clearhip on high bar
Tuck fly away.
She got to work on it 2 times before practice was over and her coach left to head to the meet for one our level 8 girls the following late afternoon.
I feel like her coach has given up. I feel like my daughter is the only one with blocks. With them only having 4 girls during their practices I feel like it should be more positive and productive. But more and more i'm finding that I am picking up a sad, crying gymnast.
State is 1 week away and for the first time in 3 years she feels like she will not qualify for regionals. Her other 2 team mates will probably qualify.
It has become such a hard thing to watch her struggle. She doesn't want to quit. But her coach refuses to budge on these blocks. She did 10 rope climbs the other day because she wasn't able to do her bar routine.
I have asked her coach what we can to work through the block at a more positive level. No luck. Just more pressure and a battle of wills.
Do we stay with this coach and chalk this up to first year optional jitters or do we look for other another gym?
We have 1 coach. She is young. She was a college gymnast and she is a fantastic coach for the most part. There are only 4 girls in the morning program. 1 level 8 and 3 level 6.
We have just competed a meet where my daughter fell off her cartwheel back tuck (2x). She recently started having mental blocks and her coach is really not budging on giving her any other options. She wants all the girls doing all the same skills. Fine, but we only practiced 3 days the week of the meet and the girls had 3 days off before they competed.
Same with her bar routine. She had her full bar routine
Kip cast to handstand
Clear hip to above horizontal
Squat on
Kip cast to above horizontal
Tuck fly away.
1 week ago my gymnast lost every bit of it. She can't connect any of it. She can kip on both bars but can't do anything out of it.
Fine, mental block. Her bar routine was changed at the last 2 hour practice (she normally practices 4 hours) her bar was changed to
Kip
Squat on
Kip
Cast
Clearhip on high bar
Tuck fly away.
She got to work on it 2 times before practice was over and her coach left to head to the meet for one our level 8 girls the following late afternoon.
I feel like her coach has given up. I feel like my daughter is the only one with blocks. With them only having 4 girls during their practices I feel like it should be more positive and productive. But more and more i'm finding that I am picking up a sad, crying gymnast.
State is 1 week away and for the first time in 3 years she feels like she will not qualify for regionals. Her other 2 team mates will probably qualify.
It has become such a hard thing to watch her struggle. She doesn't want to quit. But her coach refuses to budge on these blocks. She did 10 rope climbs the other day because she wasn't able to do her bar routine.
I have asked her coach what we can to work through the block at a more positive level. No luck. Just more pressure and a battle of wills.
Do we stay with this coach and chalk this up to first year optional jitters or do we look for other another gym?