NCMom
Cheer Parent
- Jul 29, 2011
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My daughter, 12, is getting very frustrated. She just started cheer in March and her tumbling is coming along well. She can do front and back walkovers all day long, beautifully, and has a very light spot on her back handspring (just as a reference to where she stands). She is very flexible, her splits are to the floor, side and middle, she can kick up her heel stretch and a bow ( it is not as pretty as the coaches want it mind you so they are still working on that) but the problem is that her jumps are still the worst on the squad. There are girls not nearly as flexible but have way better jumps and she is losing faith because she cant figure out what she is doing wrong. Its not any particular jump, but all of them. Her best jump is her pike, which is odd to me. It is the toe touch and hurdlers and herkies that she really strugles with. Her legs just dont want to leave the ground and come apart. We are lost as to what to do. She does have a problem of dropping her chest and her coaches have tried to get her stop that but really havent had any other suggestions other than to keep practicing her jumps. When they warm up before hurdlers they kick their leg up in front of them to show where it should be in the jump and she can get it completely up and straight and when she does the jump the front leg doesnt even come out parrallel with the floor much less up in front of her face. She is getting very frustrated and getting to the point of giving up. Does anyone have any ideas about what she may be doing wrong or what the problem is. Is it her stomach muscles? Leg muscles?