Gave the kiting a fair hammering last season and ended up with golfers elbow. This is the pain on the inside of the elbow(tennis is the outside) where the tendon joins to the bone. It's a sharp annoying pain everytime I straighten the forearm, ride a bike or lift something up. I had a corterzone injection about 9 weeks ago and it cleared it up 100% but now it's coming back again even though I'm not kiting.

The doc said there's nothing can be done to improve it other than rest, I can just see myself sitting back watching the lovely whitecaps rolling in with my elbow peacefully resting!!

Has anyone else had experience with this and offer any cures, excercises ,should I be stretching it now? don't mind getting another jab if it lasts.

What sort of kite are you using. Some kites have a lot more bar pressure than others. Also I have heard that the way you ride(arms bent vs arms straight) has an impact on this type of injury.

Yeap got it quite bad last season and am still recuperating after 4-5 months.

Do the exercises shown here: http://www.nismat.org/ptcor/tennis_elbow/ and change your grip on the bar to underhand on the affected elbow (right/left) whenever possible, ie., when not doing any tricks/jumps also try and ride with straighter arms at these times.

Are you for real! a bow kite made your arm feel better, that's got to be a joke....... or you sell them.

You must be the first in the world to claim it!

I have tried a few kites and for sure the heaviest bar pressure is on the ones with bridals. Apart from the fly surfer. It is too soft and slow.

yeh I found the more bar pressure type kites give me a bit of tennis elbow or tradies elbow is more like it,but waroo cabs revs etc are all light on the bar for me an no probs at all = kite all day

kiter77 said...

loco4olas said...

kiter77 said...

Gave the kiting a fair hammering last season and ended up with golfers elbow. This is the pain on the inside of the elbow(tennis is the outside) where the tendon joins to the bone. It's a sharp annoying pain everytime I straighten the forearm, ride a bike or lift something up. I had a corterzone injection about 9 weeks ago and it cleared it up 100% but now it's coming back again even though I'm not kiting.

The doc said there's nothing can be done to improve it other than rest, I can just see myself sitting back watching the lovely whitecaps rolling in with my elbow peacefully resting!!

Has anyone else had experience with this and offer any cures, excercises ,should I be stretching it now? don't mind getting another jab if it lasts.

I had it quite badly about 3 years ago-found it got better after changing to SLE/Bow kites and a few of the exercises I found on the net for Golfer's Elbow-a few stretches really helped, particulalrly this one:

Thanks for the link, great info, have you been doing any of these exercises or are you just waiting for a recovery then get stuck into them? This site implies doing nothing until you are pain free.

I don't have the issue at all any more-off to Indo for a few weeks and days and days of kiting after none for 3 months-so that might change...

I did the exercise whilst I had the problem and then kept at it-as I said above when I got off my C kites and onto SLEs I haven't had the issue since.

Lovely said...

Are you for real! a bow kite made your arm feel better, that's got to be a joke....... or you sell them.

You must be the first in the world to claim it!

I have tried a few kites and for sure the heaviest bar pressure is on the ones with bridals. Apart from the fly surfer. It is too soft and slow.

Mate been kiting 9 years-I can tell you that back in the days of C kites in light winds in the surf with heaps of kite movement I had the issue-now with SLE/Bow kites I don't-simple statement of the facts as they are for me.

I don't sell-I'm a user....

I had to plead with the doc to give me the jab as I was heading off on a 2 week kitetrip. Without this it would've been hell. He said there was a 50% chance of it working long term, so it was worth the risk. He is happy for me to have another go at it if it does'nt get any better . Will wait another 2 months and access the pain.

kiter77 said...

I had to plead with the doc to give me the jab as I was heading off on a 2 week kitetrip. Without this it would've been hell. He said there was a 50% chance of it working long term, so it was worth the risk. He is happy for me to have another go at it if it does'nt get any better . Will wait another 2 months and access the pain.

To reiterate what I said earlier: change your grip on the bar to underhand on the affected arm (right/left) whenever possible as well as doing the exercises.