Martial Arts after LL

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Quote from: Uppland on August 16, 2015, 09:45:15 PMYes to an extent perhaps, but remember that the muscle cells will only increase in size not in numbers. Your strength might increase but your muscles will always be too small for your skeleton, a taller man would have longer muscles to match the longer bone.

If you lengthen too far beyond your natural state there will be no complete recovery more or less by definition.

Does 3 inches stand as "too far"? Or just borderline "too far"?

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Quote from: Penguinn on August 16, 2015, 10:02:02 PMDoes 3 inches stand as "too far"? Or just borderline "too far"?

There is no fixed limit, your body will experience successively worse tolerance the more you lengthen. The further your body is altered beyond its natural state the more prominent the effects of a change in biomechanics will become.

Depending on how much athletic ability you are willing to sacrifice 7,5CM may indeed be too much or perhaps it will be acceptable in the context of your expectations. However, you will suffer a decrease in athletic ability -prepare yourself for that fact.

EDIT- The closest one gets to a fixed limit is, from a medical standpoint, your tibia to femur ratio. Your tibiae can not be longer than your femur or your gait will suffer. Not sure what the max recommended deviation is on the other end though.

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Quote from: Uppland on August 17, 2015, 02:27:51 AMThere is no fixed limit, your body will experience successively worse tolerance the more you lengthen. The further your body is altered beyond its natural state the more prominent the effects of a change in biomechanics will become.

Depending on how much athletic ability you are willing to sacrifice 7,5CM may indeed be too much or perhaps it will be acceptable in the context of your expectations. However, you will suffer a decrease in athletic ability -prepare yourself for that fact.

EDIT- The closest one gets to a fixed limit is, from a medical standpoint, your tibia to femur ratio. Your tibiae can not be longer than your femur or your gait will suffer. Not sure what the max recommended deviation is on the other end though.

My tibia and femur look almost the same size. If I didn't know femurs were supposed to be longer, I'd say my tibia was longer or as long as my femur. Looks good with 3 inches of lengthening, but I doubt looking good and being physically fine are the same exact thing.

I'll miss my centre of gravity. Lol. I've always had confidence that no one could knock me down easily in a fight.

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Quote from: Penguinn on August 17, 2015, 02:35:54 AMMy tibia and femur look almost the same size. If I didn't know femurs were supposed to be longer, I'd say my tibia was longer or as long as my femur. Looks good with 3 inches of lengthening, but I doubt looking good and being physically fine are the same exact thing.

I'll miss my centre of gravity. Lol. I've always had confidence that no one could knock me down easily in a fight.

Your femurs are longer, otherwise you'd be deformed. It's nice that your proportions look good even after adding 7,5CM, the only two things that really worry me about leg lengthening are athletic recovery and proportions in that order. If you got one out of two settled then that's not so bad.

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Quote from: Uppland on August 17, 2015, 02:47:12 AMYour femurs are longer, otherwise you'd be deformed. It's nice that your proportions look good even after adding 7,5CM, the only two things that really worry me about leg lengthening are athletic recovery and proportions in that order. If you got one out of two settled then that's not so bad.

Decide for yourself. Here's a picture of me. http://imgur.com/qfVtOIw
Notice how terrible I look with tibias lengthened? Everyone including me seems to think I look fine with lengthened femurs. I don't even care about proportions long as they're not abnormal or noticeably weird.

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You stretched out the ankles in the tibia mockup.  In the surgery, the break will be close to the knee so the thickest part of the leg gets lengthened.  That's contributing to why it looks so bad.

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Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on August 17, 2015, 02:58:07 AMYou stretched out the ankles in the tibia mockup.  In the surgery, the break will be close to the knee so the thickest part of the leg gets lengthened.  That's contributing to why it looks so bad.

Got it. But still, lengthened tibias will still look very off for me.

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Why don't you try to play Krav Maga before ll ? Height and weight are not important for martial arts. I've seen short women (yes, WOMEN) fighting against tall and bulked men and they frequently won.

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Quote from: Cartman on August 17, 2015, 08:53:26 AMWhy don't you try to play Krav Maga before ll ? Height and weight are not important for martial arts. I've seen short women (yes, WOMEN) fighting against tall and bulked men and they frequently won.

1. I have to study. My 12th grade exams are very important this year.
2. What's the point if I'm gonna take a 1-2 year break after half a year of Krav Maga?

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I've lengthened 15 cms and I feel like I won't be doing any martial arts in a long time except Mortal Kombat.