My son has a doctor appointment tomorrow. He feels the doc will tell him he's ready for surgery. The doc said last week that my son needed to strengthen his knee a bit before he would consider doing the surgery. I guess that is to make recovery from the surgery shorter & better able to handle the physical therapy afterwards.
My son did notice that at one point, with that particular ligament torn, his knee actually started to bend the wrong direction. I bet that was scary! When he told me what happened, I warned him to be careful about doing that, because doing so could cause the remaining ligament to rip from the stress.
He hasn't stopped skateboarding. Instead, he's changed the tricks he's been working on. No 'ollieing' off flights of stairs, which was how he hurt his knee to begin with, landing wrong. Instead, he's working on improving his 'nose manual,' requiring balancing on the front trucks (wheels) while rolling as far as you can. He has a friend who has been able to go quite a distance, even around obstacles. He even had me videotape him doing the opposite version, 'the manual,' in front of our house, coming down the hill.
Alot of the time when he goes skating, he's videotaping his friends' tricks. I keep telling him he needs to put together a skateboarding video or two. He says he'd like to, but at this point, he's just filling up VHS-C tapes & not dubbing them onto regular VHS tapes. He now wants to buy a digital video camera & has selected a JVC version he saw at Sears recently.
Since a friend of mine has done professional videography & had a full editing studio, I suggested he talk to this friend about how best to go about dubbing masters & what equipment would be best to buy. So far, he hasn't. That friend videotaped auto races in the Gilroy, CA area.
I have a bit of experience myself in this area. I have taped movies & shows off the air (like Star Trek), then dubbed them onto another tape, eliminating the commercials. I have also trained in video closed-captioning, using some wonderful video equipment belonging to the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, who assisted me with financial needs during my last year of college.
I think my son has found a field he would really like to get into as a career. I just hope he finally understands that the chance of only videoing skateboarding activities as a profession is slim. He'll have to make himself available for more than just that one type of event if he wants to eat all the time. 
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I hope that he is careful and not do any further damage to his knee...The video idea was fantastic!!!
That would be a safe alternative....I am sorry I was gone for so long..things have been crazy around my life...so how are you?????
Take care,
Tina
maybe he can start by placing some of it on the net? should be fun to watch...
Tell Carl that I hope he feels better, and to be careful that he doesn't hurt it worse. I know that must be painful. Lucky he's young. He'll heal faster than we would.
Amber gave up on skateboarding after skinning herself up a few times. lol
Sorry, I meant to comment on the snakebite. Wolf must've gotten bit late at night and our yard is a whole acre wide...long..lol....well, you know what I mean. It goes far back behind the house, and there's a shed, a walk in cooler, and a camper back there now, so there's lots of hiding places. We didn't know he got bit until the next day and he was laying in the back so we couldn't see him. There's a vet right next door to us, and he said that it was a misconception that dogs don't die from snake bites, that they die just like people do when they get bit. And evidently he's right, since that's what happened. But I don't know. It could've been a copperhead or a rattlesnake. We didn't see it. It was gone by the time we found him.
:) hope your son is doing okay... knee injuries aren't any fun I remember I spent the entire summer of my 7th grade year of school in a knee brace after surgery
I hadn't looked in that guestbook since New Years. lol Anyway, I heard about Jane after I posted on her blog. Tina emailed me and told me. I was in shock over it, although I knew she was sick. I had thought she was getting better. I sat here and cried half the night just thinking about it. So sad and such a huge loss.
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