I've just gotten plantar fascitis in my left foot (I am regular, but skate switch a lot). I am going to have the time for a skate session tomorrow, so I was wondering if this is very debilitating (I cannot wait months for it to disappear)? Will stretching that area help, even if I continue to skate a couple of times per week?
I do a couple of dynamic stretches before the session, but no cold stretching afterwards. My shoes are well padded, but the previous pair was worn quite thin on the sole.
I have not had that, so I can't tell you, but I can tell you this: sometimes one of my hips will get sore (if I skate regular a lot, my left hip gets sore, if I skate goofy (or nollie, for me), my right does). So I have to either balance my sessions between stances or kind of alternate which stance I prefer in a session. My suggestion (which works well for me on sore and/or cold days) is to (obviously) do stretching and warming up, but to start your session with lower, regular-stance ollie based tricks and feel it out. I had a very good session last week that started this way--I didn't think I was going to skate at all, but easing into the session with some lower regular stance stuff really got my into the groove.
Also, fellow old dudes: I'm going to be putting out a video in a little over a week--sort of a (re)progression video about the process of getting it all back after a very long break. I'm pretty excited about it--there's some stuff in there (so far) that I didn't think I'd be able to do. I will be posting it in this thread only for old dude inspiration (though I might also put it in the "post you skating" thread, but I am not so sure about non-old dudes being able to appreciate it as much). Three more sessions of filming, so we'll see how it goes...I'm waiting until after the 11th, since I have to travel to a different town for a work meeting and they have a really good ledge at the park there (I don't have any normal-sized ledges within an hour's drive).
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