Ya, a bunch of big name dudes went to Burke Mtn Academy in Burke, VT. Total racerboy school, don't think they have any kind of program for anything non-race related. But yeah, McConkey, Dave Swanwick, and...Jeremy Nobins I think?... went there.
zachd:
That fuckin sucks bro...I can't believe all that happened from that one crash. Are you close to 100 % or what?
SomeSkiGirl:
If you had surgery w/in the past couple of years you probably had quad stranded too. They use two tendons...gracillis and semitendinosis, take two strands of...
a couple people on here said they had surgery and were skiing within '2 months', '3 weeks', etc. Are u typing that in right? I couldn't walk for like 4 weeks after surg w/out mad pain...and virtually everything i've read about ACL reconstructions has said nobody in their right mind returns to...
oh i see how it is, my advice isn't good enough eh. ya SOB >:0
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I agree that you should buy yourself a vacation to SMS next summer. Or at the very least check out the Killington/OL crew as someone above mentined. Or just come out here and I'll coach ya for free(!) you gotta buy my lift...
well i had surg in late Feb of this year, and 4 months after that my surgeon said that if I was Picaobo Street, he'd let me go back to skiing (it's fairly rare that a doc would allow skiing after only 4 mos). But i rehabbed HARD for those 4 months so i was def way strong... But for some reason...
hey yo I blew my knee first day of the season at Baker last Jan and had a quad stranded hamstring graft...and I'm mad sketched to ski again this season. To those who have been thru the same, can you give me some words of consolation pleeeeeeze?