Tricking and knees...

[Eirik Raude]

My knees feel horrible the day after doing some tricking, stuff like walking up stairs hurts. My questions are, is there any way to prevent that from occuring, and will my knees get conditioned to it after awhile?

[Ryoda]

Your knees? That sounds like some horrible kind of joint problem to me. Either that or you're landing too many tricks too hard, too often without sufficient technique to allow the rest of your leg to absorb the shock.

[Mark Johnson]

my knees have never bothered me, what you training on? if its cement..thats probably your answer.

[Neodine]

i have fucked up my ankles and knees, i jumped couple of years ago to a snow from a about 4 m drop, i thought that it were hard snow, so i landed like it were hard snow, but goddamnit, it was powder snow, and BANG. both ankles and knees got hurted so badly that i couldn't walk anymore on that day, so the pain in them keeps hunting me still :F

[Ryoda]

That's real nice.

[Eirik Raude]

I've was down in Florida the last time I went out to do Front Tucks, Side Flips, Aerials, etc.. It was on this really soft, spongy grass they have down there. It would be nice if it wasn't itchy as hell.

I know Front Tucks have a really hard landing, and I always seem to land in a crouched position...maybe that's why.

[Dark_Blade]

where abouts do your knees hurt? because when i first learnt frontflips i would land hell hard and it would cause pain at the ligaments at the back of my knees. If thats the case, i reccomend u stop tricking for a few days and wait for them to stop hurting then go again. after a while ur ligaments wont hurt from teh frontflips because the mreo u do it and land hard, the mroe ur muscles adapt to the landing and they change to save ur ligaments from hurting. If its any other part of your knee i dont know whats wrong, unless youve bashed ur knee or sumfin

[Eirik Raude]

It's definitely not the back of my knee. More along the sides, on the inside of the patellas.

[Ryoda]

Give the doc a call.

[Raven]

Good advice Ryoda

[Eirik Raude]

Alright, I'll probably bike to her office on Monday...

Any idea as to what it might be? I went out and was doing some cartwheels, and after two it didn't seem to hurt anymore...could it just be tendonitis? I had Achilles tendonitis during football season this year and it feels pretty much the same.

[Ankyro]

Could be tight quads. Stretch those bitches.

[ryanlq]

my knees suck too, after i injured each one and now they pop and crack and stuff.

[ALE?!]

yeah most definetely tight quads, stretch em

could also be out of proportion muscle (hamstrings too weak), but that would only be if the stretching isn't helping.


edit: ryanlq see a doctor FUCK!

edit2: physio***

[Dogen]

it could also be a torn meniscus...that would suck lol

BUT it could also be tendonitis, which also sucks.

You need to strengthen your knees! Don't do flips if they hurt, and don't just take time off! condition! make sure your ankles are strong too, weak ankles can lead to knee problems. Condition and stretch, don't just trick

[Gravityjay]

welcome to jays not so happy world of patellar tendonitis...

i dont really do much forwards tumbling anymore because it causes too much stress on my knees... only other advice i can give is see a doctor if its bad enough to warrant surgery get the surgery straight away as tendons take fucking ages to heal when left alone...

my right one is all better now its just my left knee thats homo

[Eirik Raude]

Dogen: My ankles are pretty strong from hockey, football, etc. I still do your conditioning stuff at night in between stretches. How might I condition my knees?

How the hell would I tell if my hammies were unproportional to my quads? The lifts I do for each seem to be about the same.

I was jogging a bunch when I was on vacation, about 3 miles a day, so I'd probably attribute the injury to that rather than tricking. Tricking has never impacted my knees in this fashion.

[-=¤P/\\/3|¤=-]

yeah, I doubt it could be tricking, that is fucking up ur knees, unless u fall on them all the time.

[Chan]

any landing like crouching or squating is hard on your knees rpevention possibly weawr a knee brace???? but go c a doc and he will tel you