Advice on surfing injuries?

[jaffa1949]

The most venomous snake in Austria is the European Viper, also known as the I’ll make you slightly sick adder.

Australia’s adder is the death adder and it will do that to you.
Most of Australia ‘s venomous snake hold a place in the world top ten.
There are no sharks in Austria, nor Drop Bears, no venomous ( deadly )Jelly fish a few slightly venomous spiders. No Kangaroos.
There are waves, river waves

About sthousands of Sandy beaches most in the mnorth are inhabited by things that kill you, some pristine beaches behind the Great Barrier Reef require you to wear a body stocking if you swim in the jellyfish season to prevent being stung to Death!
Any rural Australian has a good streak of crocodile Dundee. Austrians a streak of jovial and welcoming yodellers.

The entire Atlantic surf coast is there for trips, skiing is good but I could do that in Australia too but Austria has more and better ski fields.
Little known fact a good ski season in Australia has more area under snow than Switzerland but not as deep

Australian Alps containing the lowest highest mountain on any continent.

There is so much that different, but my wife is half AustriannHalf Scottish, and the cost of short term trip to,Europe from Australia is ridiculous, my son and his partner and family live nearby and trips by train to any number of countries easy.

We have been made very welcome here, building the shop we bought into a house in a small village has made us seem an eccentricity but truly welcome

[oldmansurfer]

Didja know eating dandelions, can cause form of paralysis called stringholt ( if you are a horse).
Nice pasture here in Austria for Jaffa

Not to be pedantic but it's called stringhalt and it might be from eating false dandelions in Ozzieland. Ok so that was pedantic sorry...

[dtc]

Australian Alps containing the lowest highest mountain on any continent.

We have been made very welcome here, building the shop we bought into a house in a small village has made us seem an eccentricity but truly welcome

I’m 1/7 of the way to achieving the goal of climbing the highest mountain in every continent. More progress than many!

Jaffa, your shop conversion sounds like the premise for a book - another ‘Year in Provence’ perhaps. The delightful eccentricities of Austria and the Aussie Austri

[jaffa1949]

Not to be pedantic but it's called stringhalt and it might be from eating false dandelions in Ozzieland. Ok so that was pedantic sorry...

Wasn't sure of the spelling but don't get me started on America English! We still use the Oxford dictionary type!

To Dtc , got a project video and book type in mind, but building the house and winterproofing it comes first!
Experiencing my second Autumn ( Oxford English not American fall) very novel no real native Australia trees are deciduous so the amazing amount of colour ( Oxford) has delighted me!

The surf is about to come up , the river waves get big enough to ride with the increased rain

This is my local break and ideal conditions, you can rest assured I have been paying attention to the wetsuit advice posts to ready myself for this.
The break is called Pipeline as you can see overhead
BTW. River surf breaks are the most democratic waves I have ever surfed!
One surfer per wave, except by invitation. Take off is a short jump or acid drop from the bank, so you line up, rider on wave wipes out, next in line jumps in, and so on. Surf rinse dry repeat.
Very welcoming kook factor determines your length of ride, so far mine about 10'seconds.
Every thing is in reverse, water movement and where you wear your leash as I mentioned in another post.
All newbies are encouraged to do a water safety and rescue course

It was a great fun three day experiential ,course and having a 70 year old Aussie do it surprised them, I am officially old man river here!
We also join the river safety lifeguards on an ad hoc basis.
Plenty to do here , but serious surf time at the end of the month in Portugal and even more somafter,our building project is finished.
Investigating Sardina and Sicily as options.

[oldmansurfer]

Not to be pedantic but it's called stringhalt and it might be from eating false dandelions in Ozzieland. Ok so that was pedantic sorry...

Wasn't sure of the spelling but don't get me started on America English! We still use the Oxford dictionary type!

Well I guess I was worried someone would think dandelions were bad for horses but they aren't it's only false dandelions and then they would look for information on stringholt but it's spelled stringhalt so they might not find anything to allay their fears. I am glad you are getting some time in the water riding waves. I find the river wave riding culture interesting and a bit different from surfing and enjoy your posts about it.

[jaffa1949]

Take your point because I lost a thoroughbred show horse to it. A lot of Aussie pasture native grasses have been replaced by foreign weeds the unique nature of Aussie critters can’t handle imports!

Talk about off the original post. Sorry BaNZ

[oldmansurfer]

Well you know I just looked it up and apparently plain dandelion is also suspected as a cause so forget what I said .....Sorry BaNZ

[BaNZ]

I got all the answers I need and I'm very interested on your life in Austria!

[Big H]

I'm here at work on a Sunday........oh to be put out to pasture....

[jaffa1949]

Well you know I just looked it up and apparently plain dandelion is also suspected as a cause so forget what I said .....Sorry BaNZ

It true dandelions in Oz!

Now where were we?
BaNZ are you treating your injury properly?

[BaNZ]

Well you know I just looked it up and apparently plain dandelion is also suspected as a cause so forget what I said .....Sorry BaNZ

It true dandelions in Oz!

Now where were we?
BaNZ are you treating your injury properly?

A few things I've started.
- Buying more comfortable keyboard and mouse
- Using my other uninjured wrist more
- Eat healthier with fruits + vegs
- Surf less? (due to the weather)
- Stretch twice a day, morning and bed time
- Take vitamin supplements for joints (fish oil and glucosamine)

I'll also need to lookup some youtube videos on how to strengthen my joints and body. Do some exercise on the weekdays so I don't poop myself out on the weekends with surfing. This will be much harder as the motivation is much less to go to a gym.

[billie_morini]

BaNZ, it's not the surfing that formed the lump in your wrist. It's too much use of computer mouse. I switched from dominant mouse hand this year to the other hand. I'm going to go to air mouse within 3 weeks. I suggest you do the same because when we surf together in SoCAL in NOV 2018 I will not accept any excuses as to why you missed a slow, fat, 7 foot swell.
UR brah, billie

[jaffa1949]

There is an Australia expression that covers one cause of this!
99 change hands!

[RinkyDink]

This story is good news to me. It shows that age is not the most limiting factor on our abilities. Perhaps our own understanding and prejudice regarding our own aging is what limits us the most in terms of what we can do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/spor ... athon.html

[oldmansurfer]

Being able to do athletics well into older age has a lot to do with numerous things. One is genetics and nothing you can do about that. Another is accumulated injuries and it's too late if you have them as they will hamper your ability. Another is technique particularly with running and maybe also with surfing if you motion makes you prone to repetitive use injuries then they will happen. Forty isn't that old. It seems like that is the age where all your previous activities and habits catch up with you. That said mental attributes can make up for some of the other detriments. Most likely those runners will be losing time by 50 years old.

[Tudeo]

The positive for the aging surfer is that he/she can compensate the loss of strength and endurance by wisdom. You can relax and take your time paddling out finding the most effective route, use your local knowledge of the break to find the optimal takeoff position. Use superior wave reading to beat the crowd and timing to find the wave's sweet spot for an easy takeoff.

Then know to quit in time before too exhausted and ice the knees for the next session (next week) and take Ibuprofen to reduce the shoulder and neck pain to be able to sleep...

[oldmansurfer]

You can always strive to be subpar when you are younger. Then as you age there is always room for improvement and if you don't work too hard at it then you won't reach your peak till you are much older. Yes wave knowledge and skills can help you to overcome some pf the problems that age presents.