REAL tips for gymnasts

Beam

So the tips on beam are a little bit more complicated because you have to concentrate just a little bit more, you know because you don't want to fall. Anyway the first tip is to trust your coach. They know what they're doing, most of them wouldn't tell you to do a skill that they knew you couldn't do. If they believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. 90% of the time the coach isn't the problem for injuries, it's the gymnasts fault for not concentrating and not having faith in themselves. I speak from personal experience. I hardly ever trusted my coaches, because I was new to the sport and I was terrified, but don't let being scared break the trust that is supposed to be there between you and your coach, because if you can't trust your coach to be there, who can you trust in the gym.

The second tip for beam is to never lose your focus on finding your balance, and I know that this is kinda common sense, but it's harder than what most people think, because your brain is trying to focus on doing the skill correctly or well enough to prevent any accidents and since your so focused on that you forget that the most important thing on beam is your balance and then you fall. You feel disappointed and like everything you did was just awful and ugly. So remember to never lose your focus on your balance, but still concentrate on the skill. Yeah, I know it's a lot, but if you wanted an easy sport where you don't have to do anything you should've signed up for like the debate team or something.

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