Save the Date!
11/13/09
Friday the 13th!
Phoenix Rock Gym 7-10pm
Marty Karabin "No More Bad Luck" Welcome Back and Fundraising Party
Details to follow

Moving beyond the breakage

bouldering walker Submitted By: karabin museum on Oct 10, 2009

James and Nicholas Karabin. Marty's little helpers.

James and Nicholas Karabin Submitted By: karabin museum on Oct 10, 2009

chouinard hammers, climbing gear Submitted By: karabin museum on Oct 10, 2009

slider heaven, climbing gear Submitted By: karabin museum on Oct 11, 2009

historic bolt hangers, climbing gear Submitted By: karabin museum on Oct 11, 2009

Those hangers are awesome! the Karabin Climbing Museum is my inspiration!

WOW its good to see your back to pulling again, your gear looks amazing, thats got to be the best collection out there, keep healing fast, -Neo

nice pic's! thanks for sharing!

Where is your spotter?!?

Luis,


I want to thank you again for putting together the Boulders on Broadway benifit for me. I really appreciate you looking out for me during the down times. Thanks Erick, owner of Boulders on Broadway for letting Luis rock your establishment. Luis has a big heart. Thanks also to Bri, Victor, and Kevin for getting the event together.

I have put the monies toward the Physical Therapy sessions. This way I can say that the AZ climbing community helped rebuild me so that I can climb again!

I really appreciate everybody's help with marty's leg adventure, and hope to be climbing with you within a month.


Rock on!!! MARTY

Marty and everyone who loves him, and those of you who just like climbing too, and your sisters, and your aunts, come one and all to the Klime for Karabin recovery event November 13th from 7 to ten, or earlier if you want!!!

We are planning to have a mini comp in the lead area, a great art auction, and all proceeds going to help Marty make a full and speedy recovery!!!

Lets see some real support guys!!!

"Oh Marty, let's work on that scar tissue!!!" Just another day with Vincent my Physical Therapist. Within three months: femur break to walking with a cane. Vincent you rock! I am almost there! So when can I take a 15 footer off of my next bouldering project? If you ever need physical realignment, I recommend you visit Vincent Peries at Synergy Physical Therapy & Performance Health in Scottsdale, AZ. www.synergyptph.com

physical therapy Submitted By: karabin museum on Nov 3, 2009

11/13/09
Friday the 13th - 7pm
No More Bad Breaks Fundraising Party for Marty

Food - Fun - Not-So-Silent Auction with cool stuff including climbing gear and this forged iron sculpture.

Hey all,

What time does the auction start on Friday? Is there a raffle as well? If so, I have lots of unused raffle tickets from the Climb4Casey event...you're welcome to have them if you like :)

Marcy,
there will be a raffle also, yes! I could totally use the raffle tickets! - thanks! The auction is going to start roughly at 4 o"three and ten seconds, but don't hold me to it. As Dief would say, "Tuesday"

The auction will close at Nine PM so that we can tally and post winners. Everything can be paid cash or card. Thanks for keeping an eye on this thread!

Great! I have about 2 full rolls of the double style tickets. I probably won't make it to the event until later in the evening so I'll swing by the gym tomorrow and drop them off for you.

FWIW - What I learned from the C4C event earlier this year at PRG...

if you're selling raffle tickets and not just giving X tickets for each attendee regardless of the donation amount: we sold an insane amount of raffle tickets...it was hard sometimes to keep up with sales, but in the end well worth the extra effort. It took two people to handle the $$ and distribute tickets efficiently. The raffle was a definite crowd please-er...especially with great donations from Marty's shop, Dief and PRG, and all the local/national vendors.

Exactly three months after the accident I was allowed full weight bearing and moved to walking with a cane. The therapist skipped the Crutches step. It is a great feeling to be upright almost walking again. I can walk without the cane but it looks like I am imitating a penguin. This Friday I will be doing my first climb at the Marty benifit at the Phoenix Rock Gym. This does not mean I am back to climbing fully, but this is a first try. Hopefully that thin 5.12 will not give me too much trouble. Actually I am targeting this juggy 5.8 Top Rope that looks like I could campus it. I will pretend to use my feet. I am curious to see how it goes. For bouldering again it may be a while. My plans are to boulder once again this summer in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Rock on! Marty

Marty Karabin - cane Submitted By: karabin museum on Nov 11, 2009

Rock-on Marty... didn't you know that penguins are IN

Looking good Marty!!! love the shoes, classic! Miss you and wish you the very best!!

-Neo

I know that "free advice is worth what you pay for it" ... but as someone who has had numerous broken bones and surgeries, please don't push yourself so hard that you end up retarding a recovery! In other words, it take more time than you might think.

Plus pain relief, by helping you to relax, can promote healing. Don't skimp on the meds.

There, I'll go back to lurk mode on this thread.

The Climb for Karabin, "no more bad breaks" benefit at the Phoenix Rock Gym was awesome! Robert you did a great job putting the event together. You are awesome! Thanks to the Phoenix Rock Gym for hosting the event. Dief and Anna thanks! My coursesetters put together a mini lead climbing comp which was a huge attraction for the evening. Thanks Justin, Will, and Jeremy for all of your hard work while I have been away. Giorgio DJ'd the lead comp and cranked out the awesome tunes. Sandy brought in her massage table and worked her magic fingers on the sore climber muscles. Ongoing through the day was a silent auction of artwork pieces, climbing memoribilia, and raffle schwag. I thank all of the artists, manufacturers and others for donating gear and items for the silent auction. I climbed my first route in front of the crowd. I was limited to 5.8 so I picked the most overhung 5.8 I could find which was the overhang on the tower. No problems climbing, and it was a lot of fun. Thank you everybody for getting me back on the rocks, in a good rock way. I really appreciate the many peoples looking out for me and helping me through this process. The AZ climbing community rocks!

The four month report. I just visited the doctor and got a new set of x-rays. I am told that my femur bone is 80% healed but there is still 2+ more months of healing to go. Doc says that I am ahead of the healing process but don't push it. I am absolutely banned from any bouldering since I can't hop on that single leg yet. I am getting around pretty good but still have to use the cane to keep my walking smooth. I can walk without the cane but I still have the penguin walk.
I returned to the Phoenix Rock Gym and set a 5.7 route up the flake. I appropriately named the route "Break Dancing." Being off work for months of no climbing, the course setting seemed foreign to me, but really fun to do. Pretty much one hour sitting in the harness while jugging up and down the 30' wall with a bag of holds. The leg survived the task, but I cant say it was easy. I favored my good leg the whole time to get me up the wall, especially since the harness leg loop was not necessarily comfortable. I wear a Misty Mountain Cadillac (of course right Goose!) it is the best course setting harness created! Thick wide padded waist and leg loops. For now I need to widen the leg loop to make things more comfy while I am defying gravity. Dief says he is on it. Hmmmm a blacksmith altering my harness? I am sensing finely finished twisted rebar and hot rivets somewhere in this creation.
Honestly I still think I am a few weeks off of being back to work full time. My employees graciously gave me my Wednesday night shift at my store back to me (AZ Cliff Hanger). I put up the blinking lights to attract those few with monies. Remember folks we have a Christmas sale!
Leg technical stuff: For those wondering what the healing is about: I can balance on the broken leg but have to lean heavily over it to accomplish the task. I love slacklining which may be helping me balance better than others. That's slacklining in the back yard, not the parachute Dean Potter stuff....hmmm......yet. Walking without the cane does not hurt, but is wobbly. Possibly in a few weeks I will have the muscles working more together to get my walk back. For now any task that is right hand and right leg only is very unbalanced. It is very frustrating not being able to balance this simple task.
My therapy sessions have turned to half leg and half strength rebuilding. I am enjoying the torment Vincent is giving me. Vincent can easily make me squirm in front of his other patients! "Marty do this simple task 8 times." Halfway through the first you are laying on the floor dead! I love it! I am learning a lot of good workouts to bring back to the PRG climbing team.
I feel great that I have come this far, but I feel that the finish line is still a long ways away. Marty

Stairs up to AZ Cliff Hanger inside the Phoenix Rock Gym

Marty at AZ Cliff Hanger Submitted By: karabin museum on Nov 28, 2009

climbing t-shirt Submitted By: karabin museum on Nov 28, 2009

Piton from route 5.6 Zin, Road Area, Queen Creek Canyon, AZ Submitted By: karabin museum on Nov 28, 2009

Hang in there Marty! You are almost walking!!! Now go do 50 push-ups and 50 pull-ups. You'll be glad you did.