Quote from: onemorefoot on May 16, 2017, 02:32:05 AMForget competitive levels, if you lengthen 5 cm per segment, you can recover Up to a good level, but never competitive
I wish this "good" recovery meme in regards to athletics ability would die. No sport that involves running considers a 20 second+ 100m good. None.
Quote from: Thatdude950 on May 16, 2017, 05:51:25 AMI wish this "good" recovery meme in regards to athletics ability would die. No sport that involves running considers a 20 second+ 100m good. None.
You have to keep in mind that good for me is not for an Athletic person, as long as I am able to walk,jump And run I dont care about times or distances, if you love your sport, forget about this
A lot of people tell me they think I'm lying about my 100m speed until they see me running, I run at one of the best speeds of my age in Singapore, even though I don't really care about my speed because no one will notice it until I beat the world record which is like at 9.6 or smth. All I know is that when I was timed by the P.E Athletes my record was a little over 10 and they were impressed because that is considered professional level, even though all records have been set below 10, so a little under 10.1 is not all that impressive nowadays.
If your regions best doesn't have anyone below 10, then that's a slow place, because no Olympic for men will let anyone run unless they have a chance to beat the world record and if they run at 10+/100m, obviously they won't be signed up.
And that means that I would be running slower than a lot of slow/overweight guys? Since usually in my school the average slow guys run at about 16 seconds / 100 m
In 10 years time after the surgery, it won't be possible to increase the score? It doesn't bother me anyways, just that 20 seconds in 100 meters is too slow to be true. That time is like jogging speed or a quick walking speed.
Quote from: jakejake98 on May 16, 2017, 07:49:30 AMA lot of people tell me they think I'm lying about my 100m speed until they see me running, I run at one of the best speeds of my age in Singapore, even though I don't really care about my speed because no one will notice it until I beat the world record which is like at 9.6 or smth. All I know is that when I was timed by the P.E Athletes my record was a little over 10 and they were impressed because that is considered professional level, even though all records have been set below 10, so a little under 10.1 is not all that impressive nowadays.
If your regions best doesn't have anyone below 10, then that's a slow place, because no Olympic for men will let anyone run unless they have a chance to beat the world record and if they run at 10+/100m, obviously they won't be signed up.
And that means that I would be running slower than a lot of slow/overweight guys? Since usually in my school the average slow guys run at about 16 seconds / 100 m
In 10 years time after the surgery, it won't be possible to increase the score? It doesn't bother me anyways, just that 20 seconds in 100 meters is too slow to be true. That time is like jogging speed or a quick walking speed.
In Oceania the qualifying time was 10.28 (I think). And no they don't just let potential world record breakers into the Olympics lol I don't think you know how the qualifying process works (google eric the eel)
And yes, you will be probably be that slow. I've been reading these forums for years. In all those years there has not been a single piece of video evidence showing a strong squat or sprint after surgery. That's out of 100's of diaries
On the other hand there have been plenty of horror stories.
If you wanna be fast you're crazy to consider this
btw a 20 second 100m is equal to a 5 minute 1500m. so it's hardly a quick walk- id call it a fast jog. Still slow though.
I wonder how some people want to break their legs, stretch them and won't be happy with avoiding all probable complications (malunions, nonunions, infections etc) and walk normal and still have some sport abilities (maybe less than 85% as before LL) but they want to become 7-10 cm taller and still be capable as before LL.
This is impossible.
If someone really wants the height he would be ok with walking normally with no pains and still be able to run but slower and less distances than before.
Everyone else in reality is not a good candidate for LL and even he doesn't really want is or he won't be able to handle all what it needs (motivation, pain, etc) to have a successful surgery.
I've decided that I don't mind running slow, as long as I can run, I won't care whether it's slow but that I can do it for exercise purposes.
My problem now is the proportions, everyone who saw my picture, are my legs on the Long side or short side? With this lengthening will I look normal? About how much will it cost?
Thank you lads.
Also, should I take a pic without the trousers to see if the proportions will be more judgeable? Also I showed a Friend and he said even look better in the picture with roller skates than without
to answer your question, your legs are already on the long side. The picture on the right kind of proportions is usually only found in african americans singe they have longer limbs/shorter torsos on average. I have seen caucasians with proportions like that but it's pretty rare. A lot of people in real life are leggy. Anyway, you have a small build (bone structure wise) so you will look less proportionate than someone with a big skeletal frame.
There is arm lengthening to improve your arm length, but then again they can only do the humerus which in my opinion is less aesthetic than if it were the forearms but at-least your arms will hang down lower. Basically your proportions are somewhat unfortunate (small frame, long legs). Your humerus is already longer than your forearms and if you lengthen them the ratio look weird, but then again that's the sacrifice.
If you want 10cm you're going to have to accept that your proportions are going to be further away from the norm. Torso length cannot be fixed but arm length can so you can always get AL if you want.
I don't know what to think anymore.
I dwarf all my 5'7 friends in sitting height, I actually have like almost the same sitting height as one of my 187cm friends which is ridiculous.
My dad has short legs and I've been told I have too.
For e.g in this picture http://i.imgur.com/kvqdxrU.png,
my legs look really short and that's how they look in real life.
And also comparing leg length with my friends (sitting-wise) I have shorter than them, like a pretty big difference. I think I have +6 cm sitting height over them. Like all of them, my sitting height is bigger.
I did a terrible job at editing, but this is what I would look like with underwear: http://i.imgur.com/dFFiXeH.png
I do look somewhat long legged but I think no one will ever guess I had LL unless I met one of the guys in this forum :] or maybe not even they could guess.
Plus I'm only considering this, but if I was to do it, would I look good?
The message above mine made me doubt the surgery even more.
My bad I was looking at the picture of you in the adidas joggers. You look to have scoliosis? You need to get that checked out with a chiro ASAP. Okay now, you actually look pretty good in this picture on the right http://imgur.com/dFFiXeH but as you can see you look long-legged, but you're right in saying people won't think you look abnormal. A lot of african american's have proportions like that. Personally after looking at the other picture I now think your proportions leg-torso wise can handle it and you won't look weird. You do need to realize if you do that much. Your arms do look short on the right, but people don't even subconsciously notice arm length, that's how unimportant it unless it looks really short they notice something like build more. Yes I do think you can handle LL proportion wise, but understand that doing 10cm will be a huge toll on your body and athletically you will never be the same. I personally can't even imagine doing 10cm, I can't imagine the problems later in life but it will effect everyone differently.
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