How many girls age 13 will compete Level
7 in California this season?

gymdog_gymnast07

I do not know but i know anything about bars, beam, vault and floor you can ask me about

fallenxgymnast

okay well

i was a beginning level 5 acouple of months ago at my gym until i quit because i had a huge fear of going backwards !! i started learning my backhandspring a long time ago and once i got close i began twisting a certain way everytime i jumped back!! i have no idea why i cant do it because there were so many other girls that had gotten theres, but for some reason i never learned how to do it. it really makes me mad because my coach thought i would go really far and that i was a great gymnast its just that i have to get over my fear of going backwards. im not really scared that im going to hurt myself its and i know that i CAN do it .. so why cant i just jump back?

i need some real help because i would really like to be in gymnastics again, all my friends think i should too! i mean i would do anything for just a simple backhandspring but i dont know how to get over my fear !!

i almost had it twice but i always chicken out right when im close to actually getting it !!

im thinking that maybe this break might have helped and im telling myself that i kno i can do it .. but im just scared that i wont be able to do it and i cant full-fill my dream ..... can someone please help me ?

gymdog_gymnast07

I am in level 5 and on team for the first time ever. I started gymnastics at this place and was in a edvanced class. we started learning backhandsprinds and i was really scared. i could do it perfect on the trampoline just i woulldn't do it on the floor for anything.so my teacher cept on telling me your not going to get anywhere if you don't do your backhandspring on the gound. Well that night i tryed out for team and i made it the russian coach had been watching my do my roundoff back hand spring for a while. So over the summer i took gymnastics 4 days a week and my coach went to russia to see her family and we had another coach who couldn't spot us because she just had surgery. i was on the tumbl trak doing it perfect. and told mee the same thing everyday your not going to get anywhere on that stupid tumbl trak so one day i went on the floor and did but i didn't know the whole gym was watching me so they started yelling good job and stuff like that so now im not afraid to do it any more.
So is what i am trying to tell you is your stupid you dropped out. Just keep on practicing and do your best. THen one day you might just have it.