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@SkiJay you or any others use these glasses? My fear is that you could introduce a new and worse injury by breaking plastic being forced into my eye socket. I went down so hard it could have shattered these? I will check the site maybe they are made for hard impacts?

Did the same thing Sat but landed on my eyeball. What @Gloersen said, and if it hurts to lift your arm I would get a pulley and start some passive range of motion to prevent building scar tissue resulting in a potential frozen shoulder. This can also mobilize the intercostal musculature and aide in getting blood flowing there and ready for the 'load'. This may or may not help -passive range with pulley

When did you guys start to ski again? It's only been 3 days and taking tomorrow off. Seeing the eye Doc tomorrow as it got worse with the redness spreading and it was more sensitive after rock climbing yesterday.

I need to replace my 98 Ski Nautique's battery and need suggestions? Thanks! Don

You backside 1 ball get hooked up start into the 1st wake and bam something goes horribly wrong -slam straight onto my face (into the water fortunately not into the ski). I rise from a tumbling motion to feel the slap in my face, my bell is wrung and my eye and lip hurt bad. All extremities are moving and the ski is still on as usual. About 20 minutes later I look in the mirror and see the broken blood vessels in my left eye. The 2nd pic is today even worse. Thankfully my vision is fine, my head is not as I relive that slam into the water and am a bit sketched due to never having fallen like this. Wife and fellow skiers insist I go get it checked out......MD at prompt care said the eye will be red with the broken blood vessels for a couple of weeks. This was the 1st set on my new Carbitex boots. I had been putting off breaking in the boots because I knew they would be stiff initially and I only have so much time to ski each week. I mounted them up for my 2nd set yesterday and went out just to test em but was surprised at how well they performed and began to go for complete passes. I could tell they both were stiff and yet reacted well so I started really over turning a bit to get them to react into the ski the way I am used to with my Vapor boots. On the crash pass I know I was tired and the boots did not allow me to get the ski on edge and must have plowed into the wakes. Lesson learned I think........taking tomorrow off (I can still go climbing) and hoping to ski Weds. Conventional wisdom says keep breaking in the new boots, but I have a one year old pair of vapors perfectly broke in on a sequence plate that I am opting to go back to for a bit to get rid of the 'thought virus' from the crash then put the Carbitex back on later.

Serena Williams took this on in tennis many years ago

I am getting a few pm's for my dock warm up so i figured I would post this vid which has several clinical cuff type exercises

Short vid done at lunch for anyone interested - email me at: edenlane@yahoo.com @dhofert good to hear, although I am confused about 'the surgery' you spoke of. That would be following an ortho consult in most cases. Being told you have 'arthitis' without the specifics of -impingement, anterior instability, labrum pain ect, is a pretty generic assessment and pretty common with family Docs. From a skier/clinician perspective think of the joint this way -4 muscles make up the cuff holding the humeral head in the socket, your delts, pecs, lats and others move the humorous bone. If you have joint pain I would take a look at video of myself skiing to see if my arms stay close to my vest through out the entire pass. If so I don't have to explain where the load is coming from, if not your shoulder joints (back, and elbows too) are likely taking the load and the cause of the pain. Just my 2 cents

@dhofert was your Doc a gen practitioner or an ortho? GP docs don't have a lot of musculoskeletal evaluation skills and they often generalize with out specifics. PT will be able to assess if you have impingement, lack of motion and then address those issue with range of motion and cuff strengthening exercises. Easy range warm up is slide your hand up a pole on the dock and lean into it for maximal flexion. For some basic strengthening I can make a short video and show you some of my favorite dock warm up exercises which will help with posterior cuff and shoulder retractors which will warm you up nicely for your stack position! pm if interested

@"Mateo Vargas" same amount of alcohol

Thanks @twhisper I will definitely be sending you a video for paid coaching not only as a thank you for chiming in here but mostly to get individualized feedback to my style and level of skiing!

Progressive gate is the key to my making slower controlled -28's more consistently. Prevent excessive 'cow bell' till you get to the 1st white water. Then early edge change as Terry said. A shorter more intense lean/work zone is required. As you said the tricky part is tight back shoulder with out getting lean locked. 'Keep the handle outbound' is what Brooks told me recently but at the same time let the ski cast out. Spending too much time at -22 will hurt your ability to ski -28 is another conclusion I have come to. I want to be done with the -22 loop but need to be more consistent at -28 then start trying -32's.

Awesome suggestions guys!

Sick

Love the climbing and Mt biking in Canmore! I could spend an entire vacation in and around Canmore!

Just recently I met him and he talked me through some set up questions I had with patience and expertise!

@Horton sorry I just saw this. ICE mostly. Make a gel pack with 2 cups rubbing alcohol and 6 cups water in a good quality freezer bag. Get most the air out then double seal into a 2nd one. Let it sit overnight for a great home made gel pack. Regarding what you described - a flexion or forward bend under a load with a resulting pop= not good. Do you have any numbness/tingling or dull pain down leg, into foot or centered in the hip? The body is a chain reaction of events. A tight calf can limit the chain from the ground up. Tibial roation effects the femour and the pelvis then the low back. IR/ER (internal or external rotation tightness in the hips and effect the chain reaction toward the foot too. That's why I like 'functional stretches from the ankle to the hip. See my True stretch vid-dorky and from about 5 years ago but hopefully it helps. These are all easy to replicate in a doorway or on the dock with a chair for your foot and a door jam or something to hang onto. ***Huge caveat here is: limit the range of motion when flared up and listen to your stretch receptors. More later on that. I still use heat too via the hot tub to stretch the hip flexors get into extension ect. The X-ray suggested shows bone only , an MRI will reveal soft tissue should disc involvement be present. I can do a self assessment video to provide a 'quick and dirty' clinical type self assessment and how to immediately start to conservatively manage these sorts of things we all have going on. The kicker is you guys need to help me get into -32 this summer! ******I just re watched the 1st video and feel like those stretches done with gentle range and not going to your max tissue tolerance would be better than the True stretches in the above vid in this acute stage of healing.

'Cragin Station' is pretty dang cool!

Tried my sequence plate for the 1st time last night -killer! I am 3 hours from Bell aqua and on the fence. Really want to go!

Can't be 'Tweaker' anything in this county of ya know what I mean? Shortline______? Need a 2nd word! Station House ballers! Good ideas, keep em comin!

I like Station House ______? Something clever as the 3rd word and not the obvious 'Blues' or similar

First gig could be at the 'Rusty porthole' on the delta!

@Horton thanks for the name idea and putting it in the correct spot!

I have a classic to hard rock band playing stuff from Deep Purple, Zep, UFO, ZZ, into the 90's like this clip of us doing a Stone Temple Pilots tune. We need a name!! I like the word 'Station' as in hard rock radio station, but also could be something like 'Way station' is we are in a major crossroads for travelers to Yosemite and through the gold country. Not 'Train station' or anything too cheesy plz!! Does not have to have the word station either, just an idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD77tE8WeJA

Good stuff guys! Funny thing is although I am not stroking -28 I actually get on the tail less there than at -22 The other thing is -22 slowed down immensely with much easier mellow passes once I started skiing -28 My thought is getting the taste of the -32 swing and intensity will subsequently slow the -28 passes as a side benefit.