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Is Asterisk good for other extreme sports?
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[QUOTE="Smit-Dog, post: 854124, member: 25436"] Perhaps it depends on what you're looking to get out of the braces, and how you use your knees/legs in a particular sport. In my case, I specifically asked about a brace application for downhill skiing, and preventing hyper-extension. When skiing, my knees spend a lot of time constantly bent somewhere between 45° and 135°, bouncing up and down acting like shock absorbers. The muscles in the calfs, all around the knees, and especially the thighs are under a lot of stress and get a huge workout. Legs are burning and sore big time after a day of long, fast, bumpy runs. Your knees are used to help steer and absorb impacts. My fear is that when you wipe out at speed, the long skis and heavy boots have the potential to twist your legs into pretzels. I'm not worried so much about banging up my knee due to impact, but rather popping an ACL due to twist and extension. Again, the general consensus from the orthos I talked to was that, for my knees and for the sport of downhill skiing, the braces would tend to act as a crutch. Skiing without them would help to build and condition the muscles and ligaments, which in turn would help prevent injury. Now with riding a dirt bike, the workout / stress to my body is spread out over the entire body - come Monday morning I am sore everywhere. Arms, neck, stomach, thighs all feel it. What I'm primarily worried about on the trail is clipping or smashing my knee against a tree, which for all intents and purposes is like hitting concrete. I think Alan Randt dislocated his hip (ouch :ohmy: ) clipping a tree with his knee at an ISDE event. I'm also worried about getting tangled and crushed by my bike (or someone else's) and banging up the knees. As Thump's crushed Asterisk proved, your bones and ligaments are no match for the velocity and force of 250lbs of metal flying through the air. To a lesser extent, for the type of riding I do, hyper-extending is less of a worry. Still very much a possibility, and that's why the complete protection of the Asterisk is the only way to go compared to traditional strap-on braces. [/QUOTE]
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