J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Grindelwald?

I tried having a look on one of the webcams, to see what the view was like - and it was all black because it's dark now - what an idiot! :oops:

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Bandit,
I'm sorry to hear you've had the same kind of experience as me, with your collar bone. I think breaks involving the shoulder are a particular problem, and I'm not at all surprised to hear that you're not back to 100% yet. It took me about 6 months to re-gain the full use of my arm, and as I've said, it's still not quite back to full strength and it happened about 7 years ago now.

I think there are a lot of muscles attached to the lump of bone that I broke. In addition to the break, I also developed a frozen shoulder afterwards, even though I had been lifting the bad arm with the other arm above my head from the day I broke it (it's amazing how much one's arm weighs!). And it was total agony freeing the arm, manually, with 'torture' sessions by the physiotherapist and at home doing it myself.

Best of luck with the weight training etc. and I hope you regain the full use of the muscles on that side :D

Ally

The photo looks very like ? Ian's photo of La Thuile, so I would think it was somewhere close. How about Val D'Isere?

Snowbandit,
I think I know what you mean by the rope tows. There was one in front of our hotel in Obergurgl, which you needed to use to get back to the hotel if you wanted to ski back. It was a very curious old-fashioned looking thing, and quite hard to use.

We must go for a skating-ski together some time :D I am going to drive to Swansea over the holiday because they have a temporary ice-skating rink there just for the Christmas holiday. I'd like to teach my younger daughter to ice-skate. When she was very little she used to be able to skate with me in between my legs. I used to ice-skate at that indoor rink in Queensway, in London, when I was a child, and I used to have my own ice-skates that I'd bought ultra cheap in Portobello road.

Ally

Actually, I'm much better at doing that skating action than I am at ski-ing! I used to roller skate a lot when I was a child, plus I can also ice-skate :D. In fact, I'm so good at it that I challenged my ski instructor to a race one day. It was the only thing I was actually better at than him. I don't think that was the cause of the problem with my arms.

And Bandit, you obviously haven't been up the drag lift at La Rosiere that literally does dangle you by your arms while your skis are still (just) in touch with the snow. :shock:. Our ski instructor was very doubtful about taking us women up it, because it is so steep. And I'm not sure if it was that one, or another one, but one of them also has a very sharp bend in the middle of it. But I was okay on those, because I'd been doing arm exercises by the time I went on that holiday.

Thinking about it, the holiday I had a real problem with my right arm was the first one I went on after I broke my shoulder, so maybe that is the explanation.

It was a really bad break, of the greater tuberosity (the lump at the top of your humerus that goes into your shoulder) and my arm was completely paralysed for about a week, before I could start to swing it a bit. I had to do 3 hours of physio per day after the break had healed, for about 12 weeks to get my arm back, starting with gentle exercises using those stretchy elastic bands etc. and pulling my bad arm up with my other arm using a pulley. And I don't think any of the exercises included pushing down with my arm, like you do if you're trying to get up after you've fallen over. So I suppose whatever muscle it is that does that didn't get a chance to repair properly.

I know I can remember nearly being stuck in the bath in Zell am See because I couldn't push down with my bad arm to get out of the bath.

The osteopath said it was a miracle I'd got back the use of my arm, after a break like that. Apparently most people never fully regain the use of their shoulder. It's okay now as long as I'm not doing something like painting a ceiling for a long time.

It's my other arm that's causing me problems at the moment, after I damaged it moving a very, very large flowerpot. I had to have several sessions with the osteopath for that as well.

Ally

There you are Tony, see I knew it was in the mountains (I have to admit though I never thought of Germany).

I have skied in Orelle several times when I was staying in Val Thorens. 600 Km is the total amount of piste available in the whole three valleys area.

Orelle is a small area, but quite pretty, with a glacier. It connects quite easily with VT. There is a very nice long red run where we had our carving lessons.

Ally