Kai Jones, just got eight screws pulled out of his legs. This comes over a year after his initial incident seven miles into the backcountry where the teenage ski prodigy dropped a large cliff and broke both of his legs.
While the recovery process has been ongoing, Jones reports feeling relieved to finally have the hardware out of his body: "Man it feels good to be natty again! I will be back to shredding soon, for now I have got some recovering to do."
We checked in with Jones to see where he is at in terms of his last leg of recovery and where his head is at for this winter season.
The photo Jones posted on Instagram led some people to believe he was seriously injured again. "A lot of people thought that I messed myself up again," he explained. "I went for the drama."
But drama this is not. Jones reports having this operation done on the second of this month. Jones said, "I'm super stoked. Definitely relieved. It feels good to have it out of my body. Before, in my knees, I could feel the metal. I've been waiting to get the surgery done because I felt so good, but I knew that if I didn't need metal in my body, then I should get it out. Screws in your legs can lead to arthritis faster."
"It would hurt when I would kneel on hardwood floor. A cool fact that I recently learned is that your body is naturally designed to be able to take force. When I had the screws in my knees, those force waves were being disrupted by the screws."
Currently, Jones is a little over a week out of surgery, so he is still recovering from the incisions, but he is not going to lose much strength due to regaining so much mobility prior to this operation.
Jones is doing PT two to three days a week, and next week, he begins strength training again. Come September, he will start getting back into all of his normal activities.
While Jones isn't super limited, he said, "The main thing is staying away from impact sports for the first four weeks."
Compared to what Jones went through last year, he explained that this process is so much easier: "Obviously, you want to take all of these things super seriously, but there aren't a lot of restrictions."
Right now, Jones is understandbly excited to get back to having a normal ski season: "I'm just so stoked to be able to have a full winter and just get back to where I was."
"The season was a little slower than normal, and I'm just super motivated to push myself and travel and just ski a bunch, so I'm really hyped for a good winter with a lot of pow days."
Us and Kai both. For him, to ski, and for us, because, well, that means more clips from the increasingly talented young freeskier.
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