fgor
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I was wondering if others here have experienced this - the more my skiing is improving this season, the more obvious my strength/coordination asymmetry is. I had a significant ankle injury last year (2 months before full weight bearing, ~6 month return to sports). I know that it's totally normal to have a good side and a bad side when turning, but my good side has got better a lot faster than my bad side despite equal practice and I'm starting to think it's because the bad side is just weaker/less coordinated. It's probably about 90% rehabbed with the most noticeable deficiency being reduced dorsi flexion (due to mild joint dysfunction/"pinching feeling", not flexibility/tightness - physio is working on it). This meant I had uneven walking/patterns for quite a long time as I kinda compensated for loss of mobility on one side.
I can't actually max out my ankle dorsiflexion in my ski boots so it shouldn't make a difference, but I still can't push into my boot as easily on that side and I don't have as much control over that leg when turning, so I have much nicer turns to the other direction!
I had a lesson on the weekend and we did work on, how do I explain it, using my legs to turn rather than twisting my upper body as I was doing before, so I now have much better upper/lower body separation but my leg power/coordination asymmetry has only become more obvious :(
Any other ladies experienced this after lower body injury? Did you do any ski-specific off-snow exercises to even up your legs?
I can't actually max out my ankle dorsiflexion in my ski boots so it shouldn't make a difference, but I still can't push into my boot as easily on that side and I don't have as much control over that leg when turning, so I have much nicer turns to the other direction!
I had a lesson on the weekend and we did work on, how do I explain it, using my legs to turn rather than twisting my upper body as I was doing before, so I now have much better upper/lower body separation but my leg power/coordination asymmetry has only become more obvious :(
Any other ladies experienced this after lower body injury? Did you do any ski-specific off-snow exercises to even up your legs?