Yes it was. Unfortunately, I was forced to quit when at 68 I through my left knee out tearing some ligaments. Even now 22 years later the damned thing won't support me. Ugh!
Yes it was. Unfortunately, I was forced to quit when at 68 I through my left knee out tearing some ligaments. Even now 22 years later the damned thing won't support me. Ugh!
It wasn't the skiing that threw out my knee. In 56 year of skiing I never had an accident or an injury. I was in an amateur review for several years and that year on the opening night in he opening performance going upstairs to the stage I slipped and twisted my knee so badly I was in a brace and on crutches for the next two performances, Embarrrassing.
My knees went from 20 years of working on a cement floor at L.L. Bean.
But I skied on my (alpine) high school and college ski teams and skiing the groomed trails and doing the 'bust and burn' on the moguls IS tough on the knees, too.
Yes it is, but until 2001, managed to slalom through moguls with no knee problems at all. I always hurt myself doing something innocuous - like throwing out my lumbar by turning in my chair to pick up a bag of empty plastic bottles that probably weighed 3 or 4 ounces. When I had my little goat farm I unloaded and stacked 120 pound bales of alfalfa all by myself with the help of two hay hooks - NO problem LOL. I also repaired my own vehicles including replacing 3 engines. Any permanent injuries were doing nothing.
Yes isn't it! But we all pay in the end. Now at 91 I'm so decrepit I have to use a dolly to move a 25 pound bag. I can still manage 15 pounds of cat litter, one at a time. The joys of old age - Ha Ha
Yes it was. Unfortunately, I was forced to quit when at 68 I through my left knee out tearing some ligaments. Even now 22 years later the damned thing won't support me. Ugh!
Ugh! That's too bad!
Yep, the joys of old age LOL
I miss skiing, too. I have two steel knee joints now, but I don't think I'd trust them. Skiing in the East is hard on knees.
It wasn't the skiing that threw out my knee. In 56 year of skiing I never had an accident or an injury. I was in an amateur review for several years and that year on the opening night in he opening performance going upstairs to the stage I slipped and twisted my knee so badly I was in a brace and on crutches for the next two performances, Embarrrassing.
What a bummer, Fay.
LOL
My knees went from 20 years of working on a cement floor at L.L. Bean.
But I skied on my (alpine) high school and college ski teams and skiing the groomed trails and doing the 'bust and burn' on the moguls IS tough on the knees, too.
Yes it is, but until 2001, managed to slalom through moguls with no knee problems at all. I always hurt myself doing something innocuous - like throwing out my lumbar by turning in my chair to pick up a bag of empty plastic bottles that probably weighed 3 or 4 ounces. When I had my little goat farm I unloaded and stacked 120 pound bales of alfalfa all by myself with the help of two hay hooks - NO problem LOL. I also repaired my own vehicles including replacing 3 engines. Any permanent injuries were doing nothing.
Wow! Impressive! Funny how it's always the itty bitty nothings that pull the tendons and wrench the ankles and otherwise cause mayhem!
Yes isn't it! But we all pay in the end. Now at 91 I'm so decrepit I have to use a dolly to move a 25 pound bag. I can still manage 15 pounds of cat litter, one at a time. The joys of old age - Ha Ha