pra_ggresion wrote:How's the foot?
Foot is pretty good. Its been about 15 months since the accident. I still cant run or jump off of it and it hurts alot at times (usually first thing in the morning or late at night) and I still don't have all of my range of motion back despite a steady diet of physical therapy. However I did get quite a bit of snowboarding in this past winter (the snowboard boot gave it enough stability to feel great while riding although it took a while to be able to do more than about 5 or 6 runs). I went home to Maui for a few weeks in April and at that point had not surfed since the injury 14 months earlier, so I eased myself in with some logging on the west side before hitting Hookipa and Honolua a bunch of times. It felt great to surf, but I lack alot of the little nuanced movement in the foot that I used to take for granted. Where I would want to make a small mid face turn, I would flail and bog. When I wanted to stomp down on the drop I didn't always have the power. When I set up a big carving turn I wouldn't be able to drive through it and would either bog or fall. In short I have a ways to go. I got alot of super fun waves (even if I flailed on them) and am stoked as hell to be surfing again after that whole experience, but am still a long way from where I was before I got hurt.
Anyway, Thanks for asking! Aloha!