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  1. Hi Marco sounds like you are well on the road to recovery and looking forward to the new season. I too can walk half decent now providing I take my time, as mbskier said important you walk correctly. its this old muscle memory thing we go on about when trying to correct bad skiing habits. I cannot believe I have been walking for over 52 years, and after 3 months of being immobile someone has to teach me how to walk properly again, so perhaps couple of months free skiing using correct techniques I could teach my muscles to make me into a ski god. I did say perhaps. the calf muscles are responding well to exercise not as big as before but improving. my achilles was also very swollen but as the calf got stronger the swelling went down and now the tendon area is as it was before, so hopefully yours should go the same way. Wobble board helped to strengthen the foot. walking, cycling and calf raises helped with the calf. the phsio got me walking real slow and got me to balance on the injured foot at the top of each stride. recovery time after the bolts come out, do not really know. Iam hoping once the op has been carried out it is a case of the scare healing. I have pencilled in first week of June. month after you. Hi mbskier sounds like you are a quick healer whats your secret? I agree what you say regarding the walking issue, it is easy to get comfortable with walking incorrectly and then it can be hard to correct a bit like skiing habits don't you think? Hi aguylikessharks thanks for the feed back regarding binding plates, interesting concept not seen that one before. Regards Clive
  2. Hi Scot, Brad and Marco, it has been a long time since I last corresponded with you guys. it has been seven months since my achilles avulsion fracture, I had 10 weeks in plaster, 3 months off work. Had a few scares along the way, the bone fragment that was re-attached split into 3 pieces due to bolting such a small fragment of bone, possiblity of another op to lengthen the achilles due to lack of movement of the foot. got through all that but the the doctors were a bit reluctant to remove the bolts. Any way now have full movement of the foot but it is fairly still fairl weak, can do a small single foot calf raise only. the bolts are to come out on the 12 May so the light is at the end of the tunnel. how about you guys how is your recovery going? are you all fit again? are you on the water yet? have been asked many times about which binding I shall be using on my return. I think I will still use the reflex but with a metal plate a I still think the carbon plate contributed to the injury.
  3. I agree with Bill. but how often do you see Skiers stretching after a set I am sure if they did they would be far more flexible and then perhaps they would not form a hunch.
  4. Brad, I ski in the UK at a club called south lake ski school about 60 miles north of London, the weather at the moment is sunny, air temp around 68 water temp around the 62 mark, calm wind and I just know the lake will be busy today. Gutted.
  5. Marco, I was boasting just the other week that I had used reflex bindings for around 11 years and never suffered an injury. The original set up I attached to a KD plate and I used this up until around July time this year with no problems except for the occasional premeture release normally at the bouy. When I fitted the carbon plate on it felt I could go to the next level, incidently I ski on a RS1, then one day it released on the wake. After inspection the boot was loose in the silveretta clip, so a clamped it down some more and had another set and second pass you guess it the clip releases again on the wake. Closer inspection reveled that due to screwing the plate onto the ski the plate rises between the screws causing a slight hump, as you said it slopes, but due to slight slope on the plate the silveretta clip is not square with the ski but sits at a very slight angle which I felt caused the clip to release prematurely. Itried to correct this by putting a thin plastic washer between ski and rear of the plate and to clamp the boot down more, it seemed to be working for a while but while skiing I would feel it click so I knew it was getting loose again, so I put some gaffer tape around the horse shoe and clamped it down some more, and the rest is history. I changed to hards sheels due to repeatedly having sprained ankle ligiments and have no intention to going back to rubber as I believe there are no completely safe bindings, we just run out of luck. I will definetly be putting the KD plate back on even if it is just for confidence. Read some of achilles blog, gives me a healing time scale.
  6. Brad and Marco, here I am thinking my injury is really bad and needing a long period off the water, but your injuries sound so much more severe. I wish you luck guys. Iam a RFF I also ski with single reflex on a carbon plate on radar, I changed to carbon plate this year but experienced a lot of premature releases, so I also clamped it to hard and I think that is what caused my injury. I will be going back to the metal plate as that work fine. Scot, thanks for the positive feedback you know your stuff.
  7. Hi Marco thanks for you comments sounds like you are in for the long haul like myself, how did the blood clot occur? I have also pencilled in May for a return to getting on the water. I have some more questions Scot sorry to be a pain but I have so much free time now. Once this injury is healed pardon the punn, will foot be able to perform to the same standard as before? If it happenend again could the the same op be carried out or would that be it? Marco I look forward to exchanging progress reports with you in May, good luck buddy. All you Skiers still lucky enough to be skiing, enjoy.
  8. Hi Scott/Shane, Thanks for your input guys. Scott apart from keeping my leg elavated is there anything else I should be doing to help the healing process? Regards Clive
  9. hello all, had a really nasty fall over the weekend, apperently out the front (I cannot remember), the single hard sheel released as it should have done but it felt really violent. had terrific pain in the heel and after x-ray, I have got achilles avulsion fracture, which is were a fragment of bone is broken off the heel with the achilles tendon attached. It has been pinned and I am looking at up to 8 weeks in plaster, the only saving grace is winter is about to start in UK. There must be other skiers out there who have had the same injury, how long was the recovery time, what treatment you had once the plaster was off, how long before you were skiing again andwas there any long term complications. looking forward to your replies as I now have loads of time on my hands. Clive
  10. I know a guy who was competing in England, he pulled out to the right hand side of the course for the gates and as he turned in for the gates realised what he had done, the place was in eruptions you had to see it to believe it.
  11. Hi Cam, we at Southlake are also still Skiing, we might not learn a lot or improve through the winter but we do it because we enjoy it and we now have the added bonus of a sauna. Apart from the cold hands and feet the body stays warm espieccially after a few minutes in the sauna, I always do some warm up exercise and light stretching, work up a bit of a sweat then there less chance of injury. I like to run a few easy rope lengths and then shorten to my target rope length and free ski out of the course. gets me thinking more about technique(not that I have any) rather than failing to run the pass. Must say though this winter has been harder than normal.
  12. Eric, you say the release springs soften. would it be better to store hardshells attached to clip or unattached? Is there anything we can do to prolong the life of the clip?ÂÂ
  13. Hi slalomdude, I have the old style green/yellow release and I have stuck a rubber strip to the bottom of my boot about 1/8th inch thick as I like the idea of being on my toes. I know of many skiers that have the new style and they do not seem to have any problems I suppose its a horsese for courses thing.
  14. so can someone explain the importance of these numbers and how they affect the ski, also how do they compare to other ski's.
  15. well thanks guys that was really good feed back, just gutted Iam going on holiday with my old ski and not my new RS-1
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