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Couple of things I noticed whilst rehabbing my knees.
Can you can bite your own toenails (whilst still attached to your toes)? Seated would be normal.
Can you get up off the floor, usually from a cross legged position, fully seated to standing, without using your hands at all?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Grizzler, it’s been a while on the toe nails, plus I can’t even sit cross legged without using my hands 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Grizzler wrote: |
Can you can bite your own toenails (whilst still attached to your toes)? Seated would be normal.
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Yes I can, but I'm not sure that normal is a good description 
Although probably more normal than biting someone else's.
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Yes to both, just.
I'm surprised by how some 'fit' people that I know lack flexibility. A guy at work tried to touch his toes the other day and barely got to his shin. He runs regularly and probably weighs half of what I do, but for me it's quite easy. Although I still want more flexibility and have recently started doing yoga (fairly sporadically) and really noticed a difference almost immediately...might be alll in the mind though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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No. Short legs and "long" back; no chance.
Yes. It's very easy; am I missing something?
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Not tried that exactly, but I can still get my foot over my head (not round my neck though), so I guess it’s possible.
Yes. I realised I could do this whilst holding a baby in a crowded room. I needed to sit after a while, but there were no chairs and nowhere to put the baby. The trick is to cross your feet first. Getting up is just the reverse.
Anyone who wants a way to improve strength and flexibility but doesn’t fancy yoga, try climbing.
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@Scarlet, I have a vision of you holding a baby in a crowded room with your foot over your head... 
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Thinking about balance and arm position when skiing, if you try to stand up from sitting on a soft chair, it’s much easier if you have your hands well out in front of you.
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| Grizzler wrote: |
Couple of things I noticed whilst rehabbing my knees.
Can you get up off the floor, usually from a cross legged position, fully seated to standing, without using your hands at all? |
No, thats a lifetime goal. Flexion in the ACL's left knee doesn't allow it, ,but it was getting wayyyyy better before the most recent reinjury after working a LOT on it this summer...  #startagain #newkneeplease
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Can’t say I’ve ever tried to bite my toenails so I don’t really know.
Touching toes easy, also hands flat on floor with legs straight.
Sitting down and standing up without using hands again easy. On a good day, sitting on floor to standing using one leg only 
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@Chamcham, sounds uncomfortable 
Touching my toes is something I’ve always found difficult. I can just about do it, but I wonder if some people have a physiological advantage over others, or is it entirely down to flexibility? As @Mosha Marc mentioned, men often seem to have shorter legs and longer torsos, where women are the opposite – my own logic suggests therefore that men should find this easier, but I may be way off on that.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Scarlet, I'd agree, I can just about get my palms to the floor.
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I can on both feet - one leg I can almost get behind my head because the knee is such a mess it bends in weird ways.
I can - because the good knee supports the bad knee so much, I have a lot of power in it. my bad knee - you can forget it. It wont even support me standing up if I bend at the knee on the one leg!
I can still touch my toes & i'm 16 1/2 st 5ft 9inch
Going to shed the winter timber after xmas ready for snow trip.
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You know it makes sense.
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| PowderAdict wrote: |
| Sitting down and standing up ..... On a good day, sitting on floor to standing using one leg only |
My sore knees hate you with a passion only they can dream of
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