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Thought I would check in and let you know that my knee is healing great. My doctor released me a few weeks ago to start back in the gym with my weight lifting. They fitted me with a custom brace that prevents hyper extension and excessive twisting in the joint and it takes a lot of pressure off when walking. Boarding this winter shouldnt be an issue, but he wants me to wear the brace for safety. As much as I love the summer I can't wait for the snow!
Found out that it is a torn ACL :angry: I'm meeting with my surgeon Friday to go over the particulars. One good thing is since I am a body builder my legs are in great shape which will help with the recovery time. I have a list of leg exercises that I can do up to the day of surgery, then afterwords I'll have about 8 weeks of agressive physical therapy. The Dr. said I should be able to ski / snowboard when the season rolls around again. I'll let you know how it goes.
Well, the Dr says best case is a torn medial meniscus and worse case is a torn ACL but I won't know until the MRI results are in.
Had a great day of boarding today. I moved the hi-backs so they leaned more forward and that made a world of difference. Hitting the icy stuff was a lot better and I had more confidence in holding the edge through the turn. On the last run my nephew was screwing around and stabbed his ski pole in front of my board and I ate it bad. Ended up twisting my knee with along with a loud pop. At least I have some time to heal before next season.
Alright, I finally got to hit the mountain again. The top half of the mountain was powder and the lower half was groomed. I was loving the powder, I could link my turns heelside and toeside. Every once in awhile I would submarine the board but for the most part it was great. I was having difficulty on the groomed portions and really struggled with my turns. All I could really do to turn was to slide the board a little sideways and kinda drift where I wanted to go and toe side I kept over rotating the board. (I know practice will fix that)My brother left his 155cm board in my truck so I “borrowed” it to see how a shorter board acted on the groomed stuff. It was a lot easier to control but still had issues turing on the hard stuff. We have about 1 or 2 more days of decent snow left for the season so I'm going to see what I can improve on these next few days.AgaMy first snowboard experience was a little rough the first half of the day. The mountain got a couple inches of fresh powder yesterday and was snowing off and on today. The snowboard is nothing like a wakeboard except they both hurt when you catch an edge, and I had my fair share of that. The second half of the day was much better after I moved the bindings back a little for the powder and widened my stance by one set of holes. Heelside turns weren't too bad but toeside I kept going too far and would end up with my backside pointing downhill. Im gonna give it another go next weekend.
