Dad wants to kite...

I have just started kiting about 3 months ago and now that i have started my dad also wants to get into it... the only problem is that he has had 3 hip replacements! He is very fit though. I am not sure whether it would be great for his hips but he thinks that it will be fine... i am just after some feedback whether any1 else who has had a hip replacement kites. Or if any1 can just tell me if its possible or not.

thanks!

I'm 85 I've had a triple bypass , full frontal lobotomy , penis enlargement and I have one wooden leg .. Still do a lot of unhooked stuff ..

it's not the sort of thing i would recommend for a bloke with replacement hips. the new hips are only allowed to go to 90 degrees of flexion before they become unstable and can dislocate spontaneously. this is the reason his hip surgeon probably told him not to sit in really deep armchairs and that sort of thing. it does happen, and is usually a surgical fix i believe.

kiting would probably be okay so long as he never flexed his hips past 90 degrees. this could be a tough ask......

Give him a giant wedgie, whack him in the ribs a few times with a 4x2 then make him put his head upside down whilst you pour salt water up his nose and down his throat... if he doesn't like that he's never gonna make it past his 1st lesson. Cheaper than paying for a real lesson this way...

Best of luck for the old bloke.

Unlucky for him, means one has been redone once or twice. Replacements are high tech these days but youre still replacing bone with an artificial one, each time losing more bone, and becoming a higher risk.

Make a phone call to the Specialist's office, they will quickly tell you whats o.k. otherwise book him an appointment.

He might be tough but if he's youngish and has even a simple wipe out the wrong way, (read some of these threads) youre looking at big problems... for a long time.

.. if things stuff up guess who'll be running around for him..