Helicopter skiing

[John C]

After teaching skiing all day, every day, all winter on my new hip, I decided to give myself a treat, and went up to Canada for a week of back-country helicopter skiing. ;D It is now 10 months out (started skiing every day at six months). We skied everything from powder up on the high glaciers, to spring corn snow down low. Conditions ranged from steep powder perfection, to some very tricky wind and sun crust. I am still aware of my new hip at night, and while doing some movements, but I must say that it was great during the whole heli trip. If anyone wonders about skiing after resurfacing, I can now say that, other than big jumps, I have now run my hip through every imaginable condition, and it works great. At 58 years old, I spent much of the time chasing around with a couple of twenty year old hot skiers from Japan, and my hip never held me back at all. If you love to ski, I would not worry about a resurfacing holding you back. :D

[dw]

Nice! That's how my surgeon got into it. He was at a heli op in BC somewhere, and some dude from Germany was doing laps 3 months bi-lateral post op.

of course, he told me no skiing until 6 months out, so nothing until next year. We had talked about the "restrictions" and advanced skiing moves (upper body/lower body separation, rotation, coming out, under and out again with the skis, etc) and he said no problems after 6 months.  definately looking forward to it!