I know enough to say that you will never recover to the same point as before. It is impossible.
You totally change your bio mechanics.
The lengthening phase is the same at Dr Xia, Sarin, Sringari, Franz.......
Your knees will get a different impact than before. In every stride you can always feel that your tibias are longer than they used to. This too has nothing to do which doctor you go to.
You can never run as before(not saying you will never run again).
You call it negativism bc you probably don't want to hear the bold truth, but this is the reality of LL. Regardless of which doctor you go to.
Nobody seem to speak of everyday aches or things they can't do anymore after LL. Not many did as much as I did before LL and if you're fine with being restricted then there's no problem.
I'm now 1 year post frame removal and I know a lot more now than before the surgery. Extremely few tell about their problems. Most patients just vanish.
Everyone says they enjoy their new height(like in the thread "Sweden") but that is just wishful thinking.
There is a lot more behind the scenes regarding LL than you think.
Quote from: Sweden on April 22, 2014, 08:41:04 AMI know enough to say that you will never recover to the same point as before. It is impossible.
You totally change your bio mechanics.
The lengthening phase is the same at Dr Xia, Sarin, Sringari, Franz.......
Your knees will get a different impact than before. In every stride you can always feel that your tibias are longer than they used to. This too has nothing to do which doctor you go to.
You can never run as before(not saying you will never run again).
You call it negativism bc you probably don't want to hear the bold truth, but this is the reality of LL. Regardless of which doctor you go to.
Nobody seem to speak of everyday aches or things they can't do anymore after LL. Not many did as much as I did before LL and if you're fine with being restricted then there's no problem.
I'm now 1 year post frame removal and I know a lot more now than before the surgery. Extremely few tell about their problems. Most patients just vanish.
Everyone says they enjoy their new height(like in the thread "Sweden") but that is just wishful thinking.
There is a lot more behind the scenes regarding LL than you think.
While i agree with you to a degree, would you say that when one changes the tibia femur ratio, the biomechanics can become "different" rather than always worse? What i mean is that people have different length of tibias and femurs, sure there is a general ratio but there are deviations and if you dont lengthen to much you can still remain in the section of proportions that is considered normal. I agree that lenghtening 7 cm or more is to much, and will most likely negatively effect the biomechanics of the legs.
So what im saying is, dont you think a person who lengthens a small ammount, will have slightly different strides etc, but they are not neccesarily worse than before? the person might run a bit differently but the added length might lead to both positives and negatives compared to before to make it roughly equal, so once adapted to the lengthened legs one might be able to run as fast as before.
You're only going to lengthen 4cm. That will most likely don't give you a problem with walking or running.
A normal person doesn't have longer tibias than femurs, or even close to equal.
Quote from: Smallguy on April 22, 2014, 12:20:47 AMTrue. And eventually if you work in business or have a white collar job, you will need to wear dress shirt and tuck your shirt inside your pants. There is no room to hide anything there. And it is counter-intuitive to have to hide something after LL and after all the money you have paid. Yeah
180cm is a perfect height for me. Most women I ask prefer this height and no taller. The first reason is most girls are in the 5'4 to 5'8 range. Dating someone over 6'1 would make them look dwarf. So I believe the height advantage after 5'11 to 6'0 is very minimal or none. And from my experience, most tall girls don't really care about height... it's just the same as when you ask black guy about penis size. It's probably something they already have and are not concern about.
I agree with what you said about 180cm. I think people really do overestimate how tall people are and how tall is 'good'. I was sitting in the car yesterday and realised if my sitting height was 5cm taller and my legs were say 7cm longer, I'd have real trouble being comfortable in the car. All the best sportsmen at my college were around 6' - not any higher really. Yeah you got the 6'4" guy built like a skyscraper who was good at rugby, but 90% of people were faster and more agile than him. Out of 60 boys in my year, the tallest was 'only' 6'3". The most attractive guy was 5'10", and not a single girl held that against him. Would they have liked him better at 6'1"? I'm sceptical. I never liked the narrative on the other site that "bigger ALWAYS means better".
First of all, girls over exaggerate height. I challenge anyone here to be able to differentiate between a 6'4" guy and a 6'6" guy when close up. Now imagine scaling that down. How many women can really tell the difference between 6' and 6'1"? or 6'1" and 6'3" for that matter?
Quote from: Sweden on April 22, 2014, 09:45:09 AMYou're only going to lengthen 4cm. That will most likely don't give you a problem with walking or running.
A normal person doesn't have longer tibias than femurs, or even close to equal.
Yeah that definitely seems to be true, ive actually never seen a person who had longer tibias, its probably for a good reason.
Sweden if you dont mind me asking, how are your femur-tibia ratios after the surgery? are they close to equal in length now? btw im glad you are making progress with running recently
Reminds me of this guy on old forum :
http://i49.tinypic.com/rsv4ts.png
I was shocked by how some people said he looked 'ok'.
Especially considering this was him at 180...
Ok, he really looks weird. 
You look good at 1,80. maybe you could pull off 1,82
I think I'm just going to do 5cm. I don't want to risk anything.
I'm glad everyone on here says I look weird at 185 - I guarantee you on old forum they would have said I look "great"!
Quote from: Saavedra on April 22, 2014, 01:50:13 PMReminds me of this guy on old forum :
http://i49.tinypic.com/rsv4ts.png
I was shocked by how some people said he looked 'ok'.
Especially considering this was him at 180...
What, people really said that guy looked fine in that mockup? That mockup makes him look like a kid on top of stilts.
Quote from: Kilokahn on April 22, 2014, 03:36:05 PMWhat, people really said that guy looked fine in that mockup? That mockup makes him look like a kid on top of stilts.
One member did. The rest said this mockup (180) was just too much. Honestly his original photo looked like a mockup, unfortunately for him :/
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