When to let go?

[Clarabel]

When I think back to my coaching course, there was total concentration on how and when to support a gymnast, but nothing on when to stop doing it! I have gymnasts that I feel are ready to go on their own, and if they are going to compete these moves they will have to go on their own, no coach on the podium even. Does the coach stay in 'just in case' for all the moves in training, or do we take a step back once the girls are competent enough that they are going to compete the moves? I am thinking just to be ready on the most 'dangerous' moves to be sure, but I don't want someone coming to sue me because I decided her daughter didn't need help. Mistakes can happen at any time (she says, flying across the gym on Sunday night after parting company with the bars above horizontal!) so I hesitate to choose purely on experience.

Thx!

[BritCheer]

So long as your gymnast feels competant in the move, she is allowed and should actually encouraged to perform it on her own completely free of support. That is protocol, and you wouldn't be in the wrong. Well, just thought i'd give my twocents, luv ya x