I had a great 2024. I often wonder for how long I can keep doing this high impact stuff and for how long can I keep learning new stuff and progressing. 👵 Then I look back and realise I tried so many new things and learned a lot of new stuff and solidified many cool tricks. A little inspo for other 40+ skaters as well ☺️
🔥 Vert! I have only dreamed of coping tricks and then I made it up there this year. That was so cool.
🔥 New tricks that got strangely good right away, like grinds around corners, rail grinds, acids
🔥 Loved my random extra hobbies: ice cross, skateboarding, freediving, acro
Woo hoo!! Late drop of Micropolis session from two weeks ago. This park keeps giving 💖 @blizzskates & @wviiviw
#rullaluistelu #micropolis #helsinki #quadskating
Ahhh… Mental battle 👹 I found this obstacle too scary but all it needed was in fact more speed and jump. Down ledges just scare me. I imagine ending up on the floor face first. I guess it is pretty rational fear. 🥴 Anyways this grind/slide works great as a gateway to bigger tricks 🙏
🥰thanks for filming @wviiviw
A little late update. Looking better. Almost healed, but I should try not do idiotic things like snowskating which involves sudden stops and jerky movements of twisty knees.
This update is a couple of weeks late, and I have skated a bit more, but still feeling nervous about certain things, like miniramps. It happened on one in the first place.
I am not a fall averse skater so skating safe doesn’t feel right 🤭
And of course I had to fill all the non-skating time with new hobbies. I have to say the figure skating has been perfect - steady movements giving my knee the right kind of challenge. Inside edge work, great. Overall so beneficial for rollerskaters of any discipline.
🦵Update. Seven weeks past MCL grade 2 tear. It’s going well. Now starts the most difficult period: I can skate but I must hold back. It is super difficult to regulate yourself. And I know that often bad falls/injuries are a result of something really ordinary. My physio said I can be on skates so I will definitely be on skates. Knee doesn’t ache anymore. It is still weaker and according to physio, some of the damaged neural pathways can take a while to repair and this affects strength and skill. The best thing about all this is that I am finally addressing my knee/hip alignment issue with my healthy knee! What a bonus 💪 I have been rehabbing so well that I feel actually a little stronger even. It was those annoying little exercises that don’t seem to do anything but actually worked 🫢 Listen to your physio! 😘
