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A thing of beauty!

Good advice and sure enough my primary care doc, who I trust a lot and who has extensive experience with knees (his own and his patients), evaluated my knees today and said do nothing to tweak your injured knee for at least 6 weeks as you want it to heal nice and tight…season over! I told him there was no swelling and he compared one knee to the other and he said yes there is obvious minor swelling so stay active BUT no rotation or lateral movements. Fortunately I can row my brains out with only straight force and no discomfort. He said no need for a scan.

Glad to hear that you are getting better.

BTW, Barry, how’s your recovery coming along?

No kidding…wishing you speedy and complete recovery.

Orthopedic Dr/PT/Ports Specialist knee issue? Damn, I didn’t want to end up on this list and I’m hoping it’s a short stay. Got whacked by a big skier…no blame assigned…we both apologize and finished our runs. No swelling or discoloration, medial side of right knee joint is tender to palpatiion…I can row, do push-ups, pull-ups, chin-ups, dumbell squats, get my left leg into bed all with no discomfort BUT if I sit on the side of my bed and try to get my right leg into bed straight or bending it only slightly, OMG, never do that again…it’s like an ice pick sharp pain. If I bend my right leg, no problem. I can walk fine but if I try to extend my stride my right knee says, “No, no, no!” Something is wrong in there. N E suggestions? Hoping to get an MRI very soon. Since there is no swelling I’m applying heat to increase blood flow and, hopefully, more rapid healing. edit: YouTube vid said don’t apply heat. With zero swelling I would think more blood flow to the area would speed healing kinda like injecting platelet rich plasma???

I decided not to take this new Thirst 165 CC+ for a ride tomorrow. I’ve never ridden a wide (23.7) board before so I have no idea what to expect. 45/40. I am going to ride my gorgeous XC again today. Thinking!!! As usual Mark’s work reminds me of an object of art. I’m interested in two types of riding, i.e. Bomber style on edge carving and the style of on edge carving as on “softboot carving worth watching”, i.e. the Asians. I work very hard to avoid sliding or slarving and only accept it if it keeps me out of the trees.

Yea, sometimes I’m most in need of an attitude adjustment to be more aggressive (go for it) and sometimes 187ml of wine helps!

Very good point that really rings with me as 50 some years ago my right knee got really cold when wearing only shell pants on a very cold day. On one of my chair rides it was almost as if that knee cap got frost bitten (of course it didn’t). That knee bothers me occasionally to this day. I like the idea of knee sleeves and will start wearing them for support and warmth.

I think I read that he is (was) 14 for some of his vids. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I’m not a fan either but I do enjoy selected interviews, i.e. all of Dr Rhonda Patrick’s 10 interviews, Ben Patrick, Elon Musk and a very few others. If Joe would eliminate the constant barrage of unnessarary F-bombs I might be able to appreciate him more.

Sorry to generalize but many of the Millennials are hopelessly brain dead as am I, at 78, occasionally! It’s all good…beeee careful…and assume that the rule, which used to be, the uphill person makes sure they don’t hit the downhill person is now watch for every other person anywhere near you that could possibly hit you.

Slope etiquette has gone the way of the very seldom used F-bomb!

What is the Flex Index engraved into the sidewall?

I had the same good experience when I ordered a custom 168 from him.

I sincerely appreciate all of your constructive comments. AND humor is so individual. My wife and three of our four daughters and I used to laugh our asses off listening to Jeff Foxworthy on skiing road trips to and from Whistler and Bend. The more times we listened to that stupid stuff the harder we laughed. We know a lot of the one liners by heart and use them to this day. Our eldest daughter, who was about 15 during those years, hated it, saw no humor in it and still doesn’t. It made her angry that we laughed so hard. FWIW, at age 45 she is now an extremely successful personal injury attorney. On this recent four day trip to Jackson Hole with my 8, 12 and 15 year old grandsons most of the downtime, including at the dinner table at various restaurants, was occupied by all three on their cell phones watching stuff like Ticktoc and showing it to one another and yucking it up. At age 78 I, of course, got none of it, i.e. didn’t understand it and saw no humor in any of it.

Missed the humor on that one.

The 162 Thirst SF should be a player in there.

You can let your builder surprise you a little but MOST ALL changes from stock you’d better pre-approve. That yellow top sheet IS very cool

Lean over more, Bob! Angulate more, Bob!!! DO NOT LET THAT BOARD SLARVE UNLESS YOU HAVE TO TO STAY ALIVE!!! WHAT IN THE F IS WRONG WITH YOU, Bob!!!! it’s counter intuitive but I do much better with 187ml of wine in my gullet.

WORK ON TECHNIQUE AND WORK ON TURNING HARDER…my mantra for my last ten runs on Eagle’s Rest

A VERY SEXY BOARD!!!

IT’s ALL IN THE BOARD, lol. !!! You guys who can REALLY do it can do it on a barrel slat…LOL too.

What about your SF, barryj?

N e of you tried Ben Patrick’s (the knees over toes guy) exercises to mitigate knee discomfort? Joe Rogan’s interview of him is interesting.