New Soccer season !!!

[Tin Soldier]

That is wicked.  Watch out for the crazy ones with the flying sideways headers on the corners.  A buddy of mine got his face smashed in, busted up the bridge of his nose and broke the cheekbone, reconstructed with steel.  This was a from a goal hungry flying yahoo.  Can you tell how I feel about forwards?  sorry I guess as a defender I get a little defensive ::)

Kiwi - agree with any form of tennis, raquetball, squash,... it's a lot like indoor soccer, but in a smalller space, so I bet you have more stops and fast starts.   

[hernanu]

You're right Tin, it gets a little crazy near the goal. I had two guys on me at the time, they know me and headers. Not crazy about it though, I just guide it in. I do play with one ex marine who does the flying header thing. He stopped that around me when he crashed into my leg and crumpled a bit.

Good time, though and again, I think the PT and emphasis on working out helped, good stamina throughout.

[Tin Soldier]

Just had an idiot fly into me last night while I was defending a corner kick.  I don't think this guy got the message that we are not slide takling and we are not going horizontal with our heads and that the game is supposed to be mellow and friendly.  It really pissed me off.  He knocked me over pretty hard and I was simply jumping straight up to head the ball out.  I was fine, but I had the standard terrier tendency to go after the guy and not care an once about my health.  That's not a good thing and it was a good wake up call that I shouldn't play soccer with losers like that. 

I did wear myself out and worried a little about the discomfort in my hip that followed, but it all went away the next day, except for my anger towards the yahoo.  Maybe I shouldn'ty play soccer.

[hernanu]

We do have to take that into account, and see whether it's worth it.

My group is pretty respectful, but things periodically do get out of hand. We've had some injuries, so the potential is there. I had some spills and the hip complained, but still recovered pretty well.

I'd be pretty pissed, resurfacing or not - I have a couple of people here who periodically lose their minds thinking that a rolling ball is a live grenade. I'm playing it fairly safe, I think, and I think the hip now can stand up to things, but I am about a year down the road from you, Tin.

How do you feel now?

[Kiwi]

Where was the impact point? What point took the impact on landing? Either way it doesn't change the fact that a) These devices can take a decent hit & b) The guy who did it, is a an idiot.
Keep playing mate - don't let one clown spoil your fun.
Tin, how long post op are you now?

[Tin Soldier]

I feel good today, but a bit sore.   2 days after, which is always a little more sore for muscles and such.  No pain whatsoever down deep.  I'm just working the soft tissue a lot. 

The idiot hit me square on in the side of the chest/arm when I was in the air and thus I landed on my side.  No direct impact to the hip, but I had that crunchy/popping spine feeling with the impact.  I still think it's really strange to only have muscle/soft tissue soreness after soccer.  So many years I would hobble around for 3 or 4 days in near agony, thinking that I was just getting old at 40. 

Nice thing about this group is the organizer is a close friend of mine and she's more than happy to uninvite the idiots.

I'm 8 months on no. 2 and 16 months on no. 1. 

[Kiwi]

It does make you wonder how much impact it would take to move or upset things around the device. I think it would have to be severe - especially at your stage (although quite early on one side). Surely something else will give before the device - not that I want to find out by trial & error! Like Hern said, it's something we have to take into account when we go back to these types of physical activities. Is it worth it? Will obviously not if it breaks.. But what are the chances?
Soccer is possibly like squash, in that there's no such thing as an uncompetitive match. Squash is not meant to be a contact sport - but it is a confined space & more often than not there are collisions.
The Surgeons must have confidence in the device & security of it, as it's not like many say "Don't go back to playing high impact sports", in fact most seem to encourage it to an extent - don't they?

[Tin Soldier]

Agreed and I do think that most of the well-known HR surgeons expect that we will be back at the same level of activity, doing the same activities we used to do before serious OA set in.  Obviously S&N promotes getting back to climbing, running, biking, skiing, soccer,.... maybe even squash ;) on their most recent ad for the BHR.

[Kiwi]

Love to see these ads Tin - I had a quick look in S & N website but no such like ads....that I could find.
Cherz.

[Tin Soldier]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrspqg0NAQ

I didn't look too hard in the S&N website so I went to Youtube.  This was a popluar ad in the US about 6 or so months ago.

[Kiwi]

Cheers for that Tin. I can't see the squash there, but hey it's not like they can fit in everything  ;)
So I'm heading down to the courts tonight to have a casual game with my wife. Not much running though... PROMISE!

[Tin Soldier]

How'd it go?  I have my weekly soccer match tonight and I'm hoping the dominant kicking leg will feel a little stronger.  I think I need to do some interim exercises to strengthen the kicking muscles. 

[Kiwi]

Went really well mate, I really enjoyed it and made a point of not running (much), so we played a length game. Got a really good sweat up and it felt great to crack the ball again. Timing seemed to be there which was a bit surprising.
My wife wasn't bored (she's training for district champs) and wants a regular hit with me as she thinks it's good for her game - playing someone who hits the ball harder than most of her usual opponents. So it's on again this Sat  ;D