I fell working doubles and got a realllly bad block to the point that I couldn't connect anything. I did RO stop, standing BHS stop, standing tuck but for the life of me could not connect it. I don't know if this is feasible for y'all but try taking a class at a gym where no one knows her (even better if its a gymnastics gym). When no one knows she has been working fulls in the past, there is no pressure to do anything more than a handspring. She is on a youth 2 this year right? Handsprings are all she needs!! I know it's so frustrating and hard but taking steps back to just ROBHS really helped me. She will work through it eventually!! Good luck!
Funny thing is she had not had privates since May! She has only been doing a once a week tumbling class at her gym and she went to our competitors open gym twice a week. That's it.
She really loves one of her coaches from her cheer gym and she really loves two coaches at our rival gym. Those are the coaches she loves tumbling for. It has been one week since the block. It was last Friday when she told me she could not tumble anymore.
On Saturday she went to her tumbling class. They split them into 3 groups. She is in the full(advanced) group always. Then there is a few kids from her youth 2 team in the tuck group. Then their is a few other kids in the beginner working BWO/BHS group. Them not knowing the fears my daughter expressed to me the night before they put her in her usual advanced group. No tumbling at all and a whole bunch of tears.
I messaged her favorite coach ever from the other gym and told him what was going on. He had her do a private with him a few hours later thinking he could get into her head. He got her to do a ro,bhs,tuck one time by herself without him standing there. Other then that she would only allow him to spot her. She became to upset. We went home and I had talked to him and he told me to bring her back Sunday. So the next day we showed up and he worked with her but we got the same result.
I didn't put her in any privates or open gyms even though she really wanted to go Wednesday on Halloween night. She had not tumbled anything but level 2 since then Sunday.
The coach who did the privates with her said he was going to start working Arabians and some front tumbling. Anything that doesn't require her to connect a BHS to it or throw a tuck or layout she is fine.
She kept saying all day yesterday she wanted to go to open gym like she usually does on Thursday nights. Last Thursday night at open gym was the last time Jaylen was throwing all her tumbling and not blocking. So I thought since she really wants to go this may be good for her. So we went to go, she then started crying on the way saying she didn't want to go and everyone will laugh when they see her get spotted on tucks! I felt bad for her I said that's ok we won't go if you don't want to. I'll see about getting you another private when no one is there. We turn around to go home and then she says she does want to because she wants her tumbling back. So I turned back around and we arrived 40 mins late because of her indecisiveness! She still had about 50 mins to tumble and would do absolutely nothing unless it was a spot. She did about 15 ro,bhs,tucks with someone standing there that never touched her.
Then this coach says ok your going to do it by yourself. She went in the corner and would not go. Or she would run out of the corner, hurdle, and stop and just grab her face in tears. After 15 mins of breaking down another coach went over there and spotted her about 5 more times as she did it. Then we left.
I told her she did great and just to keep working on it. About half way home I hear nothing. I turn around and she is sobbing in the back seat saying she can't do it anymore and she isn't going to be Whitney Love one day! I have no words so I just let her cry as it breaks my heart.
Tomorrow is her gym tumbling class and if I make her skip it she will be upset with me but I just don't think she can handle it. If she does not get put in the advanced group she will shut down but if she does I feel it will be overwhelming to her.
So as of now she does go to 2 different gyms. She doesn't seem better at one place or the other. I thought about taking her elsewhere but I don't want it to be to much on her & I asked her and she said no she doesn't want to go anywhere else. I'm so lost...
I wonder if hypnosis works.
Thanks guys for all the great advice!
