I'm getting back on the snow after a 2 year recovery post-op. I ski slopestyle and urban and I don't know if I should change my setup for something safer. Planning on picking up some Vishnu Keys but I don't know if I should get something skinnier/stiffer. I am also used to cranking my dins up to a 9 for nollies and whatnot but I don't know if it would be safer to lower that. Any recommendations on skis/settings?
Nov 13 2023 2:50PM
I'm coming back from a similar injury too, I tore my acl and 2 parts of my meniscus last season and got surgery in June. I just got back on skis last week (super early for my recovery, I passed my return to sport testing and was too excited not to), and took it super easy. I used the same skis that I was on last season, which were probably a little too wide for the conditions right now, but I was definitely still comfortable on them. For me, it was nice going back to what I was used to skiing last year because it felt familiar. Its definitely different for you, because you are so much further along than me and I'm a more freeride and park guy than specifically slope and urban, but I really think you should do whatever you were doing before and go from there. At 2 years, the chances of re-tear are really low, so I would ride whatever you were comfortable with before the injury.
Nov 13 2023 2:56PM
DegenDrinker2000I'm getting back on the snow after a 2 year recovery post-op. I ski slopestyle and urban and I don't know if I should change my setup for something safer. Planning on picking up some Vishnu Keys but I don't know if I should get something skinnier/stiffer. I am also used to cranking my dins up to a 9 for nollies and whatnot but I don't know if it would be safer to lower that. Any recommendations on skis/settings?
to be clear: if you are planning on continuing to ski urban and park, your chance or reinjury will be high.
my big recommendation would be to work, off snow, with a personal trainer that specializes in skiing. There were a couple threads in the past few months about this.
For casual skiing on groomed slopes: a narrower ski will put less torque on the ligaments of your knee. but I wouldn’t necessarily worry about this too much, if you are going to be sliding rails and hitting jumps, the forces on your knee will already be higher.
not medical advice but my knees feel safer skiing look pivots, and you should take any binding to a shop to be adjusted. Tell them you’re a type II skier to start and then go from there.
Ease into skiing, don’t go in the park until you feel more confident again.
Nov 14 2023 10:14AM
egirl.skito be clear: if you are planning on continuing to ski urban and park, your chance or reinjury will be high.
I would say this take is a bad mindset. If you've done all your rehab and passed return to sport, I think your mentality should be that shits never gonna happen again. I did mine a few years back and half the battle is mental. You have to trust the repaired knee to be as strong as your other, otherwise you'll ending up compensating and making more problems. I do wear my brace tho cuz Doc said it makes re-tear risk go down
Nov 14 2023 10:38AM
DlonettiI would say this take is a bad mindset. If you've done all your rehab and passed return to sport, I think your mentality should be that shits never gonna happen again. I did mine a few years back and half the battle is mental. You have to trust the repaired knee to be as strong as your other, otherwise you'll ending up compensating and making more problems. I do wear my brace tho cuz Doc said it makes re-tear risk go down
yeah super true that a lot of injury recovery is mindset.
I mostly said that to encourage OP to get some sport specific gym hours in.
Nov 14 2023 10:54AM
egirl.skiyeah super true that a lot of injury recovery is mindset.I mostly said that to encourage OP to get some sport specific gym hours in.
2 year recovery is intense, I’m sure he’s been doing tons of PT in that time.
I can’t recommend skis but I do recommend a small and unnoticeable knee brace. Brings back confidence, and also felt I could ski longer and harder. Some days my uninjured knee feels more beat than my bad one. Might even start wearing two.
Nov 14 2023 3:02PM
muffMan.2 year recovery is intense, I’m sure he’s been doing tons of PT in that time.I can’t recommend skis but I do recommend a small and unnoticeable knee brace. Brings back confidence, and also felt I could ski longer and harder. Some days my uninjured knee feels more beat than my bad one. Might even start wearing two.
I started wearing the bracelayer pants, not every day that I ski, but just whenever I know I'm going to throw down or if I've been skiing a few long days in a row. I think they were like $90 or so and feel exactly like having two sleeve braces on, but because they're part of the pants, its a little more comfortable
Nov 15 2023 1:25AM