Overcome Backwards Tumbling Fears in Gymnastics / Cheerleading
- with Mind Training

Do you or your child suddenly experience fear during reverse gymnastics movements such as during:

Back handsprings, back tucks, back layouts, back fulls, or dismounts from the bars?

Or do you feel you need to revert to having a spot for your routines?

Even the most elite gymnasts and cheerleaders who contact me have been regularly brought to tears of frustration over these.

Many had already been through the rounds of psychologists, countless motivational pep talks, relaxation skills, etc.

I quickly became deeply familiar with not only the pressure gymnasts and cheerleaders experienced in practice and competition but also their massively concerned parents, families, friends and team mates.

Unconscious Self Sabotage

Sadly motivation or pep talks do not help tumbling fears and mental blocks as they are an involuntary, unconscious (and sub-conscious) reaction.

This particularly applies to anxiety issues which become deeply emotional, and can only be eased down at the subconscious Your subconscious is the powerhouse of peak performance, controlling all bodily movement, storing your training experience and muscle memory, and guiding your body with effortless efficiency and precision. Estimated to be 275,000 times more powerful than the conscious mind [University of Pennsylvania] level. (more on this below).

Because when the mind dwells on previous failed attempts, doubts, worries, expectations, previous falls, fears and negative thoughts this often reinforces the anxiety.

This anxiety is the main cause of ongoing poor performances  - sabotaging elements, routines, confidence, and causing fear and slumps in form.

Most often it just prevents us from being at our absolute best, getting in the way and holding us back from realizing our full potential.

When this persists, it is most often gymnasts or cheerleaders may be unknowingly running a subconscious 'program' of fear through their mind.

Working much like inner 'software' running a computer, it can create a negative cycle of recurring anxiety whenever performing specific skills while other skills may remain unaffected.

Until this cycle is broken, unfortunately the issue tends to deepen and continue to increase, even spreading to other skills.

Why Fears Can Only Be Overcome in the Mind

Fears can only truly be overcome when dealt with at the very source the subconscious mind, to free gymnasts to perform to their full potential.. and complete their routines.

The subconscious is the inner 'software' that powers all the body's movement, which is why external methods only create temporary improvement.

This is no different to mastering physical skills, but you need to work out at the inner gym.

Mental training, using a potent combination of visualization and positive suggestion, has shown to give gymnasts the inner confidence and belief to conquer fear and achieve the most difficult elements, skills and routines.

The Key to Tumbling Success...

The subconscious mind is the key, as it is the control center of tumbling movements and all movement and performance.

The mind techniques bring about positive changes at the internal inner 'software' level.

This is where the changes must occur, in order to open the window to positive and permanent changes to future results.

It is an amazingly powerful mechanism which can easily command your body perform the exact routine you wish your body to perform.

The subconscious normally uses a natural form of 'auto-pilot' during performances, which allows our movements to flow easily, effortlessly and naturally without thought. But severe anxiety short-circuits this natural autopilot process with a flood of negative anxious thoughts.

Mind training works powerfully as the mind controls the body, not the other way around, and so gymnasts and cheerleaders find they gradually regain the confidence to perform the skills that were causing so much stress, for the past months... and some suffering for years.

This means mentally imagining yourself vividly and realistically having fun doing your skills, easily and effortlessly, over and over again.