Sincraft

uh...

Well it all depends on his health. The average doctor is a pretty stupid person today. They see people in 15 minute intervals and give them antibiotics like candy. Trust me, it took me AT LEAST 40 doctors visits with 30 of them being specialists to find only 50% of my issues, which one of which is an arthritis where my body actually attacks its own tissues.

The safest thing he could probably do, honestly is to have a stress test done with a good heart doctor, and then also have a bone density test done.

Explain to him that while on a snowboard, you are locked in. It is NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like skiing when you can gently sit yourself down or, if you fall hard you might whip your head back onto the hard snow and ouchy.

Snowboarding falls are much much much much much more harsh, especially in the beginning. I recommend that he learns from an instruction and doesnt try how so many I see trying, flat boarding the bunny slope day 1.

learn to hold ONE edge on day one, and maybe even up to day 5 eventually falling leave.

Buy him some ass pads, and make sure he realizes that helmets are NOT option on boards.

If he has bad knees, he probably has bad elbows and probably even a lower back and upper back (neck) area. Common. The lower back will hurt but subside. The tail bone pain if broken can last a very very long time. I would recommend that asspads, a stress test and a bone density test.

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ComeBack_Kid

You lost all credibility with that statement. What a ridiculous, dumb thing to say, especially when you base it on the amount of appointment time they get with a patient.

iechoi

Well, he's a doctor himself (surgeon), so I think he knows who and what he can trust. Unfortunately, certain circumstances are delaying his retirement until March 2013, so it's going to be hard to find time to go up until then.