First videos are from Thursday, pic is from Friday, and the last video is from Saturday
A year ago I posted her full video and for the last year she has battled herself and she could not do one consistently and without a coach within one foot of her or being spotted on multiple fulls first. She has been scared to death. It didn't matter because she didn't need it but it was definitely a battle within herself. I never called it a mental block because she never had it consistently and her fear was only on this skill. So we just rolled with it!
Jaylen only does open gyms and her tumble class so only tumbles on Thursdays and Saturdays. 2 weeks ago it clicked.. She needed no one. She threw one by herself not even landing it and she laid on the floor bawling because she was so happy. She told me she was over her fear and she could tumble. I actually believed her and I could see it in her face. She walks in the very next week and she can do it. Without a spot even warming it up! It was probably the most joyous moment I witnessed from her. On Thursday she did them the whole open gym, just perfecting and getting better. She was at home Friday and I see her with a small piece of computer paper and glitter and I ask her what she is doing.
She said she wanted to write her goals down. I was like wow; where did this come from. The piece of paper was not holding all these goals with glitter very well. So I gave her a poster board
(Excuse her hair)
She put each one of her goals on there.
Anyways It's now Saturday and the day after she made a goals list. (I posted this pic on Facebook the day she did it)
She gets to the gym and one of the coaches said your going to get one of those today I seen the poster you made.
He tells her to do a BHS out of her full and it was almost instantaneous. She was able to do it and tuck out of it shortly after! She was so excited even though she got in the car and said I only put BHS one time on my goal out of my full not two BHS so I still don't get my goal :/ lol
She also told me that tumbling is so easy when your not scared. She said she doesn't know why she ever was scared but she will not be scared again.
I mean I know people don't choose to be scared it just kind of happens, I hope if she figured it how to deal with this fear she can figure out any fear that may arise coming forward. She never gave up. I'm so incredibly proud of her.
Also we are aware of the technical side of the skills in the video. Jaylen has never tumbled with her feet together (before we came here) so because of that her feet come apart in everything that she does including her full. The coach did tell her today that if she wants to have elite level tumbling she cannot tumble like that and he will not allow her. He said he will put a stop to any flipping tumbling because that does not look good and it's not safe. He actually had her do straight fulls where her feet were together. Not in this video it was after that and it already looked so much better. She can do it when told it appears to be something she has to work on making a habit though. When she did do them correctly he said does that feel better and she would say yes. I asked her in the car does it really feel better or were you saying yes because you knew that was the answer he wanted. She said it really does feel better and it's easier to do the tumbling, what's harder about it is I have to think before I go to make sure I do that so that's why it's hard because I don't have to think about the other way at all. So she said she will start doing it at practice on easy skills and see if she can get in the habit of it so it isn't so awkward on the higher skills. However, she knows if that coach catches her she is done until she fixes it 100 percent.
Eta: she requested that music because one of her favorite coaches who came from SOT (the one tumbling in the video and the one that's listed on the sign as jumps like Lalo's) maybe she won't leave me and move to Miami one day. Maybe she will just go to spirit lol
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