...I'm not familair with ice and injuries (or injuries at all), but will the ice help it heal or just dampen the pain temporairly, so I later can go see a docter or something?...

Ice helps heal.  It is as an anti-inflamitory.  When you have less inflamation things heal better.  BTW.... heat increases inflamation.  Don't heat an "injury".

For example.... often pain relievers are often in large part an anti-inflamitory med. along with a pain reliver, like  Asprin and Motrin.

...What is this "hinged knee braces"? Can you link me a picture or something?...

here is a showing of some of the medium to upper upper medium range spendy ones.  There are ones little less expensive... not as good..... and others.... way more expensive.  IMHEO (In My Humble EDUCATED Opinioun) If one is going to spend money on such braces what your also looking for is ones that you can set to LOCK at your full extension thus not allowing the knee to hyperextend.  For Bocking I'm beginning to think you might as well lock it at a slight knee bend.

sore joints, and strains.   Ice is your friend!  10 to 20 mins is all you need. 3x a day.   A gental warming up of the iced area is a good thing to do to.

if its a large area,  a frozen paper cup of ice that you can peel away as it melts can be rubbed on it.

Yes, iceing is uncomfortable!!!!  especially ankles, & writst.  It will go numb though.  If you don't ice thru the pain to numbness, your mostly wasting your time.

WTF is radio bock? oh well im gonna listen....

listen.... huh?  ohhhhhhh "radio bock"  is like a radio.....  duhhhh...... I thought it was just a really weird user name someone picked. 

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FWIW... my family started in Quogue.  That's where my great's first planted roots after ariving in the US.

Im the last one in my line.

My bet is there is no way new springs will be warenteed if you put them on some other brand of stilt.

You bet wrong. I know people who have put other brand springs onto their stilts and have been covered by warantee....

Good info thanks.  Will have to see over time if that holds true in all countries or or not.

My bet is there is no way new springs will be warenteed if you put them on some other brand of stilt.

just get a pair of springs from Skyrunner one or two weight level ratings higher than what you have now.  

Better said ... just get springs one or two weight level higher than the springs rated for your actual weight.

This way your spring WILL have some warentee. Don't know how much but it should be some. 

.....  Alon the way we were inspired by some serious leaf springs that pulled up next to us at a stop light... And yes his tires were taller than dom's car.

LOL.  Piece of junk mall cruiser.  Thats like taking Boks and adding a few chunks of pretty metal and Hoofs worth shiat loads of $$ to make them taller, for the sake of "cool".  Along with this though is the trade off of ... the Bocks won't bounce worth crap anymore. 

What a waste!!!!!!!

Sorry for the rant.  Sorta biased toward "real" things that work not "cool" things that are useless for any other reason.

what i find quite funny is if its little kids (usually under 12's) asking to see one. you say "sorry i cant do them" then wait till they turn away, then bust one out ...

yep, its a great act.  Been doing a comedy skit based on that for years.  It never fails. 

Im in the same boat as you.  I HAVE to be in one piece.  Got mine of Flea Bay for 45 bucks NEW.  Mine is a snowboarders vest with pads all over the place and a spine gaurd.  I got new padded shorts too for 28 I think.  Helmet was new too.  My elbow, knee, wrist gaurd were used skater gear

The article said the stilts needed to be 40 inches high.  Bocks are only eighteen inches.  The picture has him on normal bocks. 

their at least 40" if you measure the whole thing.  No telling if the orginal record was done with the feet 40" of the ground or if they were 3" off the ground and 37" more stick from there for you could hold onto.


Butt....... in deciding to do a search first........ it looks like it may well have been a 40" foot from ground in the orginal record.  See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilts

Make sure your body is straight, you spin faster thay way.
No bent legs.

basically he is right but with more detail then just bent legs.  Your head goes out way early cause alignment issues so your body cant be straight.  Work alot of Layed out flips with straight body and wth head rotating along with the body instead of tilted back. 

You look like your a visual guy and that is AWESOME!!!  I see your spotting the ground.  This migth be why you throw your head back..... to see the ground.  Well... you can still see, you will just pick up the visual a tad later on regular flips.  On the back flip w/twist you will see it after executing a tad bit of the twist.  You can then look along side your arm pit or shoulder and see the ground.

for a non sprung stilt...... they look just fine to me.  Little overkill on the design compared to other short stilts Ive seen.

not bad on the knee bar. I would like it a tad lower but thats not horrible. Granted I look at it from a anitomical, biomechanical thing cause thats where my experience is.  The Bockers with experience will pipe in to add their points.

On you bindings... you might consider swapping legs with your stilts so the bindings go on the inside of the foot and not the outside.  The outside of the leg and foot could more easly whack the ground in a fall than the inside. With them on the outside you might break the clasp in a  smack on the concrete.