This article is reprinted from The Professional Skier.
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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. Ever since we humans arose from all fours, we've used them to walk, go up and down steps, in balance. But when sit, and stand. The ankles are among the key joints for getting around it's time to get ready for a day on the slopes, skiers often suffer a sudden and very specific case of amnesia. Once we pack our feet into those nifty plastic boots, we forget the ankle was ever a part of our body.