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Show VALLEY NEWS 1, 2007 Valentine’s Dance at Valley Elementary Who Kneed’s Them? By Phil Cross (FiLX) By Vienna Froerer, Student Reporter On February 14, the sixth graders att Valley Elementary participated in a lon: aited Valentine’s Dance. The students eagerly spent several weeks in dance instruction. Mr. Shirl Weight returned from the peace and quiet of retirement to teach excited sixth graders dance! We really appreciate Mr. Weight’s time and effort! Thanks Mr. Weight! very exciting to see everyone dressed up! The gym was beautifully decorated by our dedicated PTA mothers and fathers, who also provided delicious refreshments. They decorated the gym in a Valentine theme, which looked marvelous. Thanks so much PTA! We would like to thank Mrs. Hogge, Mrs. Evans, Mrs Warnes, and our amazing principal, Mr. Lee, for letting us have a dance! 5 a. For 1% hours we danced, ate, and just enjoyed friendship. The most anticipated part was the boy’s and girl’s choice dance. We learned that no matter who you danced with you still had a really good time! The highlight of the dance was showing off our newly learned dance moves! The dance ended with the Macarena, the traditional Hokey Pokey, and the Bunny Hop. During the dance the gym was swarmed with parents and their cameras. You would have thought it was the prom! It also was I thought I was all checked into the “Big White Room” this winter, when all of a sudden—ACCESS DENIED—the door slammed shut on my left knee on only my 6th run of the season! was preparing to stop when I noticed, at the last instant in the flat light, I was coming onto a small roller. “This could be kinda’ weird,” I thought as I allowed all my weight to go to my downhill ski, thus terminating the motion of the skis and transferring the inertia into my lower synovial joint. My next thought was, “this is not good” as I felt the crepitus and immediately fell down. I pretty well knew what I did when my tibia slid forward as I tried to mount the ski patrol snowmobile, but I was still in serious denial. Maybe I only sprained it, but it became pretty obvious when ski patrol had to go back and get a toboggan. The rancid smell of the snowmobile exhaust did a good job of masking the pain in my knee. Ah! The things you love can hurt you the most. I wish I had reserved this stunt for the end of the season, perhaps on a big muddy patch. And this is not exactly how | wanted to start out my 50’s. It was just a whimpy little hockey stop gone bad, just right above the upper clinic at Snowbasin no less. another ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) rips the condyle. It doesn’t take much to pop the ACL on alpine bindings if you do it just right (or perhaps wrong). How I wish I had been wearing my knee brace. I’ve been skiing for over 20 years without an ACL in my right knee (my good knee now), but as long as f ve been wearing a brace no major problem Have you ever watched pro football and noticed some of the linemen with both knees braced? I don’t think their knees are bad as much as they’re trying to keep them from becoming that way. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised that there are alpine skiers older and better than I, who ski with both ACLs gone without braces! I feel you can compensate for this ligament being gone by strengthening the leg muscles. I choose to wear a brace just as I choose to wear a helmet (which, incidentally, has saved y life). I’ve heard reports about how the shaped skis are really putting the grind on the menicus (cartilage in the knee). If you look at the mechanics involved in putting an alpine ski on edge, it requires a fair amount of torsionai flexing of the knee, as opposed to telemarking where you aren’t locked in as much, and snowboarding, which eliminates this action all together. Also, standard alpine ee on’t provide much safety for the knee. have seen alpine binding systems with ar like attachments coming up from the ee piece and then it attaches behind the knee somehow. I assume this causes the binding to release when the knee is stressed, but I don’t know that much about them. As for braces, you can Google a plethora of them on line. I’m all about preventive medicine, and will do almost anything to keep from going under the knife, even though I might have to now. _ So, alpine skiers, protect those knees; otherwise, you could easily contribute to the advancement of orthopedic surgery. Maybe one day they can replace knees with something better, like leg transplants. I wouldn’t care what color or what size of foot was. But until then, “Who Kneeds Them?”—I do! At least at this point in time, I don’t have to worry about losing something I don’t have. Maybe it’s time for another major rehab bicycle trip. 5 March Volume XIV _ Issue XI Qa OGDEN = THE Page 14 Park City Mountain Resort to Host 5th Annual World Superpipe Championships Park City Mountain Resort once again welcomes the world’s top skiers and snowboarders to the fifth annual World Superpipe Championships on March 10 and 11, 2007. The invited riders wi compete for a piece of the $90,000 purse in the Eagle Superpipe—the world’s largest superpipe and the site for the 2002 Winter Games. “This is our fifth year hosting the World Superpipe Championships and we couldn’t be happier,” said Jim Mangan, director of action sports marketing at Park City Mountain Resort. “Shaun hite, Torah Bright, and Tanner Hall will compete against the world’s top riders in their respective fields making this the best World Superpipe Championships we’ ve ever On Saturday, March 10, the best maleand Nichole Kester Realtor, GRI (801) 710-3074 a piece of the $90,000 purse in a best of three-run ‘ormat. Shaun White, 2006 Olympic Gold Medalist, will compete for the first time in the World Superpipe Championships. Other invitee: include Mason Aguirre, Danny Davis, Kelly Clark, and Antti Autti. On Sunday, March 11, the best male skiers, including Tanner Hall, will compete in the same three-run format. 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