I'm 159. Should I target for 170 with safety or go with the max 173?

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Do you think I was wearing my shorts a little bit high? Here are other pictures of extending 6+8 cm wearing low underpants, do you still think it's too off? https://imgur.com/gallery/iqcZngn

I think after doing the LLs, I'll try to gain some weight as well and it'll look better then.

Here's a guy doing +13cm in Tibia only (real surgery not mockup), how do you think? https://imgur.com/a/JhHH5Wf
The right image is if 13cm was divided for the femur and if his leg got more meat.

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Quote from: loia5tqd001 on April 28, 2021, 06:42:12 AMHere's a guy doing +13cm in Tibia only (real surgery not mockup), how do you think? https://imgur.com/a/JhHH5Wf
The right image is if 13cm was divided for the femur and if his leg got more meat.

sure this is real? Looking at the photo I can't believe it's 13cm tibias. also, I doubt he would walk normally again after that amount.

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Quote from: RealLostSoul on April 28, 2021, 09:00:03 AMsure this is real? Looking at the photo I can't believe it's 13cm tibias. also, I doubt he would walk normally again after that amount.
Actually, there're 2 surgeries (7+6) with 9 years apart (2010 and 2019). That's why. Not just normal walk, the paper says now he can lift nearly 200 kgs of weights with his legs https://tuoitre.vn/di-tim-chieu-cao-mo-uoc-ky-2-hai-lan-keo-chan-cao-them-13cm-20201010110356253.htm
He's from 163 to 176

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Quote from: loia5tqd001 on April 28, 2021, 06:42:12 AMDo you think I was wearing my shorts a little bit high? Here are other pictures of extending 6+8 cm wearing low underpants, do you still think it's too off? https://imgur.com/gallery/iqcZngn

I think after doing the LLs, I'll try to gain some weight as well and it'll look better then.

Here's a guy doing +13cm in Tibia only (real surgery not mockup), how do you think? https://imgur.com/a/JhHH5Wf
The right image is if 13cm was divided for the femur and if his leg got more meat.
You don't look bad. You have a relatively lomg torso like all short men compared to legs.
You can even do 7cm on femurs and still look ok. So don't.overthink about all these, what matters at the end is to be as closer to average height as you can without being crippled. And if things go well, you can do 6cm on tibias and 7cm on femurs and still be ok.

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Quote from: Body Builder on April 28, 2021, 12:54:55 PMYou don't look bad. You have a relatively lomg torso like all short men compared to legs.
You can even do 7cm on femurs and still look ok. So don't.overthink about all these, what matters at the end is to be as closer to average height as you can without being crippled. And if things go well, you can do 6cm on tibias and 7cm on femurs and still be ok.
Thank you. Actually, in my country 170 is being considered normal and average already. 173 (if naturally) is being seen as attractive . Anyways maybe I'll decide when already in distracting phase to see where it goes.

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Remember that every cm you lengthen after 5 on femur and 3 on tibias adds an exponential amount of time to complications.
Is it worth going for 173 cm or 170 cm instead of something like 167 if it will make you feel a lot more pain just walking in the park with your family and friends? LL is about a balance between height gain and loss of leg function. You need to respect the complications and not get blinded by only the height gain. Remember that you will be walking on these legs also when you are 80 years old.

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Quote from: TheDream on April 28, 2021, 03:03:15 PMRemember that every cm you lengthen after 5 on femur and 3 on tibias adds an exponential amount of time to complications.
Is it worth going for 173 cm or 170 cm instead of something like 167 if it will make you feel a lot more pain just walking in the park with your family and friends? LL is about a balance between height gain and loss of leg function. You need to respect the complications and not get blinded by only the height gain. Remember that you will be walking on these legs also when you are 80 years old.
I'll consider not going too extreme of course. But I'd rather work crazy hard on rehab, exercising, preparing the best health for the surgery than laying lazy on the bed and doing 3-5cm. Knowing that I'm having artificial legs would make me less complacent, work out more and respect my health even more.

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Quote from: loia5tqd001 on April 28, 2021, 06:11:10 PMI'll consider not going too extreme of course. But I'd rather work crazy hard on rehab, exercising, preparing the best health for the surgery than laying lazy on the bed and doing 3-5cm. Knowing that I'm having artificial legs would make me less complacent, work out more and respect my health even more.

It’s not a question of being lazy. Even 5 cm femurs + 3 cm tibias will require a lot of work (years)  to regain athleticism. The thing is, when you lengthen past that, the chances of mechanical axis being off, the soft tissue being damaged (due to amount of lengthening but also due to the speed of lengthening required to achieve more length), ACL surgery and IM band being cut etc. all add to the risk of never being able to regain a healthy amount of movement and balance in your legs again.

Is it not better to go from being 159 cm to 167 cm and still being able to function well rather than going from 159 cm to 170 cm or 173 cm and risk not being able to walk properly again?

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Quote from: loia5tqd001 on April 28, 2021, 06:11:10 PMI'll consider not going too extreme of course. But I'd rather work crazy hard on rehab, exercising, preparing the best health for the surgery than laying lazy on the bed and doing 3-5cm. Knowing that I'm having artificial legs would make me less complacent, work out more and respect my health even more.

You'd expect this to happen, but surprisingly it's very common mentality that is not realistic. Dr. Paley has said it's the same story over and over again- an ambitituous patient comes in and saids they're gonna work hard and rehab and stretch every day and give it 200%, but when they actually have to show up- almost all end up being potatoes and doing much less than they thought they were gonna do and be lazy. It's hard!

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8cm is too much over wingspan since you can't always have your hands in your pockets and will be noticeable and your torso goes from looking fine at 170cm to "off" at 173cm IMO.