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Post by JimRatliff on Nov 21, 2015 19:21:40 GMT -7
.... He's blessed with great skiing feet btw..... Todd: So, please expand on your admitted foot fetish. Are you in the habit of looking at other peoples feet while they don and remove their boots, or have you become acquainted with his feet through some other mechanism.
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Post by ToddW on Nov 22, 2015 12:27:21 GMT -7
I have probed every nook and cranny of his feet and measured them twice. I know every bone in his feet by feel and sight. Is Jim frightened yet? (I fear he may not ski with me this season.)
It's amazing how different every foot is in a roomful of people ... even the supposed members of a left right pair.
Legs, knees, and hips too.
Race coaches, ski instructors, engineers, and a token neurosurgeon made for an interesting alignment technician training group.
Jim shouldn't worry. I can obsess about his feet through his street shoes well enough. And in a pinch I can pull out my x-Ray vision ski goggles. I do begin to recall now why Jim may be concerned. Jim, do you still wear panty hose to ski in??
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Post by JimRatliff on Nov 22, 2015 18:22:48 GMT -7
Thank you Todd. An exceptional response just as I was phishing and hoping for. And, as always, your memory of past events is somewhat staggering. I may see if I can come up with the picture Lynn says you are remembering.
But no, Lynn seemed to have a problem with me wearing panty hose, and it wasn't because I looked better than her!! :-)
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Post by ToddW on Nov 22, 2015 22:17:17 GMT -7
Speaking of left-right asymmetries ... my knees were too much alike, so I subjected the right knee to a nasty tumbling fall between a fan gun and an unguided human missile at A-Basin on opening day after 2.5 runs. I'd got my skiing in and it was time to do the skier's equivalent of getting a tattoo. That knee is now 1/2 inch bigger around and that VMO has become broader and less well-defined (okay, weak and defeated.) I can now tell my two knees apart without peeking at the toes beneath them. Righty. Lefty.
My hamstrings and quads on both sides forgot all their summer training and went on a rapid slimming diet. When I coax them back, the right biceps femoris will be the one with the quirky short arm and the bulging vastus lateralis should also be the right one. Righty, Lefty. For the present though, both sides simply look weak and identical. I should've done this 20 years ago. I turned 50 last spring, and am discovering that muscles no longer double in size overnight from one day's exertions :-( I've heard it said that "50 is the new 30" so I should bulk up in a week or two. The last few days, I've played gently with a broomstick balance board and can balance on it again. And I've managed to do a few (balance-assisted) one legged squats flexing about 60*. I'm not ready to go lower yet since that knee hyperflexed and the ski kicked my butt hard. Now that I've proven myself, I'll probably stick to various lunges until my knee is again bulletproof.
I am curious about the effect on my future skiing. Besides footbed magic, I have a big cant under the right foot. Even so, this was my good stance foot. If I had two of my old right legs, then I'd be a damned good skier despite the significant bowleggedness and tibial varum plus a moderately varus forefoot. In hindsight, I probably should have trashed the other knee. But I wasn't thinking far enough ahead when the opportunity revealed itself, and I chose to grab it before the moment was gone.
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Post by livingproof on Nov 23, 2015 10:27:52 GMT -7
Todd, Hope your achy knees return to the former state of health. I think you are well advised in being conservative while performing kneed squatting type exercises. The older I get, the more critical good form becomes while performing leg exercises. My knees have become subject to patella femoral syndrome deterioration over the past several years, and, it's not fun walking down slopes or getting up from a chair. Don't let your kneecap get over the front of your feet. I've been trying to squat simply by pushing my butt backward and keeping the knee slightly flexed just as if you were in your ski boots. I find this motion and position very much aligned with the PMTS flexing movements. Also, dead lifts and kettle bell swings are knee friendly and beneficial to ski condtioning. Hip stretching exercises help relieve my knee pain greatly, so, give it a try. Here is link to a routine I use daily.
I'm not a PT expert, just trying to keep the knees pain-free. I'm convinced a major contributor to my knee issues last ski season were from over aggressive use of squat exercises and poor form. You are 20 years younger so do all you can to protect your knees.
BTW, as we have drifted from the OP, would you be ok if I created a knee issue thread.
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Post by superbman on Nov 23, 2015 10:39:45 GMT -7
I just logged in and created an account at Pugski. Looks familar, but that's probably a good thing.
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Post by JimRatliff on Nov 23, 2015 12:25:42 GMT -7
You may not "bulk overnight" but the base that you did have will serve you well. You may have lost some muscle cells, but the cardiovascular system to rebuild and supply those cells is pretty much still in place (at least that's what Lynn says). She has been correct about things like this in the past (because her husband was a nationally recognized tri-athlete trainer?). At the beginning of each bike season, I can tell that I am starting from a stronger place than the previous (in spite of the fact that each years starts with me a year older).
Be on the alert of "compensatory movements" that you may develop during the "outage". I've had a couple of back surgeries, with some semi-permanent (is that an oxymoron) nerve damage, and discovered that I compenstate without realizing it, and then have to focus on undoing that where I can.
All of those big words you used, are those muscles and bones in the body, or did you make them up assuming that we would never check to realizing you were BS'ing. Or, a more honest version of that question, is that stuff taught in the alignment camp or stuff you already had picked up over the years?
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Post by JimRatliff on Nov 23, 2015 12:26:41 GMT -7
I just logged in and created an account at Pugski. Looks familar, but that's probably a good thing. But I don't think there is very much hope that Phil will ever be able to sell his site to Vail, Inc.
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Post by ToddW on Nov 23, 2015 17:47:55 GMT -7
I just logged in and created an account at Pugski. Looks familar, but that's probably a good thing. But I don't think there is very much hope that Phil will ever be able to sell his site to Vail, Inc. Don't be so hasty, my friend. Phil is an amazing salesman. I've heard he even sold a pair of skis to sharpedges once. I wouldn't put it past Phil to sell VRI on rebranding itself as Pugski International as it continues its expansion out of North America.
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Post by JimRatliff on Nov 24, 2015 9:43:55 GMT -7
If he sold a pair to SharpEdges, then I am almost certain that it was probably a pair of Head skis. If I remember correctly, SharpEdges was a pretty adamant and vocal advocate of PMTS?
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