October 2, 2014
nothing new to report
I often forget that I have artificial hips.
I do have some minor lingering range-of-motion limitations. But these are more minor than anyone but me would probably notice.
I do mawashigeri (roundhouse kick) without any problem. I just can’t do jodan-uramawashigeri (head-level hook kick) and a few other things.
In my university classes, I still see many 18-21 year olds standing there with their mouths open when they see how low my stance or split is.
But I do feel sometimes as though there must be something I can do to increase my range-of-motion further. I do some slow, light stretches just before going to sleep, which seem to help. And of course I warm up properly before classes (one challenge for me is that I teach 18-20 classes/week these days so going from warm to cold to warm again so often may be taking its toll?).
Anyway, no real pain and no problems to report.