Opedix S1 Knee Support Tights

Recently, the Eastern ski resorts were dumped on by two rolling storms of large big flake dry powder. The first storm started in mid-afternoon, came down hard most of night, piling up 16 - 20 inches of snow and took all the next day to taper off.

I was one of the lucky ones already on the mountain before the storm hit and the traffic snarled, so I was skiing pretty much off the first lift run. I just had to ski this stuff on my new mid-fat Head Mojo 94s. It was so good that I took a mid-morning break and didn't stop again until early afternoon, then I was back out until we started losing light.

That night both my thighs ached and there was a pain in the inside of my left knee. The pain I attributed to "skating" to the lifts with the much wider skis than I was used to. I caused my thighs to ache by reacting to having falling into the back seat over the powder high moguls - but loving it too much to quit.

The next day, during the second 12 - 14 inch storm, my knee ached and I was too sore to ski much so I sat and watched it snow. Feeling a little better the next day, I put on a pair of Opedix S1 Knee Support Tights - and skied the same terrain as before, but without knee pain and with thigh muscles that didn't ache.

Bottom line, I think that by not wearing the Opedix S1 Knee Support Tights I lost most of a rare Eastern powder day. That won't happen again. Read how and why these scientifically engineered and tested skiing base layer tights will make you think you should have a big red "S" on your shirt when you wear them skiing.

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