Huge Mentalblock For Bhs Help!

[Rebecca Dahlquist]

First of all, please excuse my grammar, I'm from sweden. Second, when I start to write I can't stop, sorry... Lots of text, it's my whole story behind my blocks, so yeah.

Okay, so I've gotten a mentalblock for bhs on anything that isn't soft, and for standing backtucks.
Story of my bhs:
I've always been scared for everything going backwards, but I've been good at stuff forward. I can do a front full out of a trampolin.
Last fall I was working really hard on my bhs and ro-bhs when my right elbow was dislocated after a bad ro-bhs on the airtrack. I didn't have enough hight in the bhs and my hands were angled outwards. That was in September.
I couldn't do bhs for a long time, mostly because I was in pain. I started working on them again in january, and I had them by no problem in February. It was easy, they weren't scary and it didn't hurt.
Then, at the beginning of March when I started working on getting my bhs longer and keeping my knees totally together, my left elbow was dislocated and the muscleholds were very streched and stuff like that. 2 month before nationals. Great.
I went to the physiotherapist a lot and on the 24th of march i started stunting some 360s and doubledowns and so, trying not to push or put any weight on my left arm. It hurted, but I made it.
Three weeks later I could stunt almost without any pain, so I started doing bhs on springfloor with a spot. Pretty much only focusing on keeping my arms and legs together.
Time went and I did my bhs with less and less spot, but never completly without it. I couldn't do it if I didn't have a hand in the back.
Nationals were coming up and i couldn't do it without a spot, but I had to do it.
I ended up crying in my comp. makeup because I just couldn't throw it. I tried, but it didn't work.
So I didn't do it, but we still won.

Now I just can't throw it without a spot. I can do it on a leaning soft mat and anything that is soft basicly. I know that I can do my bhs but my body just don't let me throw it.
I don't know what to do, and tryouts are coming soon and I need a toetouch-bhs...
Any help is good help!

 

[nicole41]

I think what you should do is have your tumbling coach trick you with taking the hand away every once in a while so you don't know when it's gonna come. Maybe this will help your body to realize that having the spot there isn't really needed anymore.

 

[cheeralldayeveryday]

So i have the most AMAZING trick so stand a little bit to the right(or left) and a little bit back. then walk to the spot where youre going to throw it. the second you get there, throw it. keep doing that until you're confident. works like a charm

 

[Rebecca Dahlquist]

So i have the most AMAZING trick so stand a little bit to the right(or left) and a little bit back. then walk to the spot where youre going to throw it. the second you get there, throw it. keep doing that until you're confident. works like a charm

Yeah I usually do that when I'm doing tucks, it's harder in back handsprings because we do coreographed steps before, so I can't like run there and throw it directly. I can throw it with a spot always, as long as the spotters have a hand on my back all the time.

 

[yojaehs]

Yeah I usually do that when I'm doing tucks, it's harder in back handsprings because we do coreographed steps before, so I can't like run there and throw it directly. I can throw it with a spot always, as long as the spotters have a hand on my back all the time.

Find somewhere you are comfortable. Like cheese mat, tumble trak etc. by yourself. If doing a bhs isn't happening do bwo's. You need to get confidence in going backwards. I don't do the "trick hand pull" bc it can scare the athlete into not trusting the coach. Going backwards is a scary thing. Try finding someway to do something without a spot. Good Luck!!!


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