Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm Justin Sue

episode 1,776. Many many years ago I worked with a lot of gymnasts and a lot

of cheerleaders and one of the things I learned about these gymnasts and cheer

leaders is how amazingly athletic they are. One day I was working with the young

cheerleader and she started to freeze doing backhand springs. Now for those of

you who have ever done a backhand spring you know how difficult it is and for

those of you who have never done a backhand spring, hand spring including

myself I couldn't imagine doing one. Well there came a point to where this this

girl she's about 14 years old she just could not get herself to do a backhand

spring. She had this mental block and she was stuck and I began to work with

her and we ended up discovering that when she saw one of her teammates struggle

to do it and get hurt doing it she no longer wanted to do it but what was

interesting is she wanted to do it but she kept saying that her body wouldn't

let her do it and so what we did is we decided to grab an empty vase and I told

her parents to go get a whole bunch of marbles and they went and got marbles and

I told her every time you practice a backhand spring on the trampoline on a

mat with a spotter every single time you try to practice it grab a marble marble

and put it inside the vase. Don't worry about doing a backhand spring don't

worry about executing it no pressure but every time you practice it put a marble

in the vase and so weeks pass by and I have not seen her and one day I show up

to the gym and she walks in her mom brought in this big vase filled with

marbles and she proudly puts on the table and she was just amazed to show

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