I’m looking forward to see what comes next! Speedy recovery to you.

Had a double hip replacement at 38. Now 40 and back training bjj with no issues or restrictions. Actually better at bjj now as my mobility is much improved. I drill throws as well with no issues and start standing with people I trust. Good luck sir!

I just wish you a long happy healthy life. You’re my favorite Jiu Jitsu & grappling instructor on KZfaq!

That place you’re walking looks amazing, good luck 🤞

Yes I also had a hip replacement at 54, I also studied and trained in MMA… thank you for posting your thoughts and experiences of your recovery

At the young age of 55 and a life long mma bbj guy i feel your pain and thank you for the insight. It will help me with some ideas down the road as i think about why i still train 3 hours a day LOL please keep me posted with your journey in life.

Good luck and a fast recovery Stephan…✊

I just had 2 of the 3 ligament structures in my left ankle put back together after they snapped when a partner shot in for a takedown 7 months ago. I want you to know that I really appreciate your injury/surgery/recovery content. It comforts me.

Best wishes and good patience for your recovery 🙏🏽 Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for sharing your experience Stephan! This will help a lot of people! Wishing you a fast and full recovery!

I wish you a speedy recovery!

Good luck Stephan! Hope everything goes well with your surgery and speedy recovery.

Thanks for this video - you are describing what I'm going through as well.

Thanks for sharing and speedy recovery

Hope you have a speedy recovery!

Prayers for your speedy recovery brother. Take care.

Good luck and best wishes, both your surgery and rehab!

i'm suffering of this as well. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Thanks for sharing your experience Stephan! I'm 2 months out from a hip impingement/resurfacing surgery and happy to report that I'm back on the mat coaching and training (albeit still light contact). This came about after 20 years of Judo, karate and kickboxing, with car accidents, frequent lifting and cycling. I also have a genetic disorder that causes arthritis (with 40% having major joint surgery before their 50's) and femoral necks shaped tp cause impingement. At age 40 I was told that I'd need full bilateral hip replacements before 50, or I could have the FAI surgery now and delay the inevitable replacements until my later 50's or 60's. I opted for the surgery. At 8 weeks it's still a little early to tell if it feels "better", but it will improve and buy me the time until I get bionic hips. I've been recovering very well so far though, for which I'm grateful- I was a little worried at some of the pre-surgery discussions of weeks and months to get back to active life. Its helpful to realize that a lot of those prognostications are based on a wide range of the population, and aren't strictly predictive of a fit, healthy person's recovery time. My biggest recommendations- get strong, strong as possible. Strong AF. Move in all three planes of motion with agility work. Maintain whatever mobility you have, do lots of CARS drills. I treated the surgery like an athletic event and pushed hard on a 16 week prep program, went into the surgery in top shape, and therefore had more to fall back on and a little to lose during early rehab. I can't emphasize that point enough- go into it in the beset shape possible, and you will reap dividends on the other side of the surgery.

Good luck from The Dojo, Stephan! Quick healing wishes to you.

Stephan thank you for this video. I can't wait to hear your follow up videos. Good luck in your recovery. Having said all that I am 60ish and probably have the beginnings of osteoarthritis in my hips. Nowhere near your difficulties. Every morning I wake up with hip pain. It goes away after several cups of coffee, but it makes my early morning walks harder than it should be.

Best wishes to you, sir. Thanks for sharing the journey with us.

Super common in our line of work. Good info and wish you the best in your healing!

Good luck Stephan, and thank you for sharing your journey. Oss

Awesome video, Stephan! I'm glad I found your channel. Commented on your second video about this and how I'm going through the same thing. I had to, lol, when you talked about judo. "We weren't too smart," lol. Bone on bone is brutal. That's what I have. Hip problems can also be genetic or something that we're born with and also martial arts. The kicks rotation on the hips all things can factor in. Especially round house and side kicks. Thanks for being honest about this and not being like a tough guy who brushed off a hip replacement like it was nothing. Really hope you're doing well on your post-op. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress, peace!

Best of luck Stephen, hope everything goes well for you and you get back on the mats as soon as your healthy.

I’m inspired by this I just got done with reattaching my patella tendon to my kneecap and have been on the road to recovery. I can’t wait to see the comeback!

I had a hip replacement 2015, aged 57 years.Started BJJ 2016, aged 58 yrs. This month, my instructor gave me my blue belt, aged 63 years. In some ways, I wonder if your journey may be more difficult ? As a beginner, I had no idea what I should or could be doing. Your struggle could be to accept your body refusing to actually DO what you know CAN be done. I wish you well

Good luck, Professor. Recover well.

Hope you have a fast recovery

I am only a hobbyist but I do enjoy your videos greatly, Mr. Kesting and I am another Middle Aged man a tad younger than you only

Hope you have a good surgery and recover. Myself done already a surgery to the shoulder, the recover part is the most important, good physiotherapy is a must, good luck!

Good luck and speedy recovery. I can see this in my future so this will be helpful. I am 56 with decades of high impact sports and jiu jitsu for last 5 years and recently have experienced what I call hip stingers. Not a lot, but I'm sure I'm heading down the road to surgery.

Great information. Thank you.

I wish you a speedy recovery, Stephan!

Thank you for sharing this. Good luck!

I wish you also a very good, smooth and fast recovery and revalidation. Osss

Speedy recovery bro, I had both my hips replaced July 31 2020, I know that feeling all to well when yr flexibility goes away slowly, a year later still doing rehab building the muscles around the glutes and quads all muscles I haven't used for over 6 years due to osteoarthritis, thanks for sharing bro look forward to seen yr recovery videos all the way Aoteroa (New Zealand) kia kaha 💪 Osss

Grapplearts is amazing and Stephan has helped so much. Good luck, and if its any help a friend of mine about your age had his done and a year later was playing full out hockey and working out again.

All the very best, dude!

Great explanation Stephan! Hope the healing goes well. You spend more time off the mats then on anyway so you really want to take care of the off-mat body.

Good luck brother, get well quick!

Thanks Stephen I am seeing a surgeon next month about the same procedure. I have been doing most the same martial arts as you for the last 36 years and have always been a runner also ! I'm slightly younger than you I think at 48. My MRI is similar to yours, bone one bone, no cartlige and Ive grown 3 big spurs. I hope your recovery goes well.

Thank you for sharing your story. I have to have a hip replacement hopefully later this year. I have been really worried if I will be able to train Jiu jitsu after. I look forward to the rest of your story and I hope you healing up well

Thank you!

Love the mustache on you, Stephan! Best of luck -get well quickly, Sir.

Thank you for posting this 1 and 2 part video. I have been doing BJJ for just 6 years now and love it however I am getting hip replacement in the next few weeks. I had almost the same symptoms of you.

At 59, the hip pain has started, although I am no where close to being chronic, I cannot help but worry about what is coming down the road, as martial arts is a big part of my life ( bjj and hapkido). You can bet I will be following your journey and reading the comments about people who have already experienced hip replacement. Thank you Stephan ( and everyone) for sharing, it really helps.

Best of luck Stephen.

Get well soon!!

I had my hip resurfaced after 20 something years of martial art training. I brought in Bill Wallace for a seminar and did an interview with him. He mentioned he had 4 hip replacements!

I hope everything has gone fine...this is one of the most honest videos I have ever seen. There must be thousand instructors that are full of titan and plastic joints, with limited capability to perform fully what they have done. I was thinking also my judo-training when I was just 11-12 years old, and we trained on hard tatamis. In my twenties, I had a slight injury on my lower back, and the x-rays showed that I must have had a trauma before this. Doctor asked can I remember any accident ? I was just thinking the judo-training that might have caused the damage...one disk had eruption that was happened before. In my fifties I went through BJJ-basic training, without any back injury BUT that time I got some nasty pain into my elbow joint. I could have taken some pain-killer to continue since it did not get any better but I decided to choose to tap myself out every time someone got a lock to my sore hand. Training was not so intense it could have been, and finally 3 months of training needed 6 months of recovery. Covid has given me now almost two years recovery, and no more pain. Everyone should re-think their view of the training vs. recovery BEFORE something irreversible happens. And this video tells it again: long distance running is not so good for the body.

All the best brother

Thank you, I am in the same position. I blame it more on karate/kickboxing than BJJ, in fact I've had osteoarthritis in my hip for 23 years, avoided doing any form of striking, got to the point even boxing set it off. I'm 63 now, been doing bjj or in the early days "submission grappling" since 2002 with a few years off. Now I'm continuing adjusting what I can do in bjj. I am so interested in how you progress, especially with getting back on the mat. So the best of luck with your surgery, and look forward with you sharing.

Wow, Stephan, I have been having chronic hip issues for the past few years. Been going to physio, but am too scared to get scans. If you remember, side splits were easy for me. Those days are long gone. Oh. No more Judo for me. Thanks for the video and get well!

Dead lifting did it for me. I probably would have had hip arthritis eventually, years of running etc. but after I started power lifting and with the deadlifts I immediately started having hip pain. I went from 0 pain to constant daily pain in my left hip after about 3 months of dead lifts and my lifts went over 300lbs.

thanks for sharing your experience i'm 7 months post hip surgery and it is definetely not easy trying to kick the bag this is so humbling i was diagnosed not only with osteoarthritis on my right hip but also on my left as well and on top of that a degenerative spine thank god im not in a wheel chair i still could run liftand squat but its still so damn uncomfortable lifting pivoting and chambering my hip

Good luck !

Hey Stephan, Thanks for sharing, I wish you a speedy recovery , please keep up the updates, I'm very interested to see how things go for you . I have a very similar history in the arts , TKD, Judo ,Aikido, Muay thai and bjj , now exclusively bjj and some aikido . My hips started hurting about 3 years eventually I had to get a check up and was told that I would need dual hip replacement ! The doctors here in Egypt have told me that it was pretty much the end of my bjj and martial arts career and would be confined to swimming , walking and maybe cycling. Needless to say I've so far opted out of the surgery for now until it gets to the point where I have no choice. Like you my hip mobility is practically gone I'm 57 this week and it seems that I may be following your lead soon . So I'm going to follow your journey very closely if you choose to continue sharing , once again I wish you a speedy recovery and a quick return to the mats

goodluck! hope all will b fine again soon

Oh contraire mon frere! Your medical problems are interesting to me. Good luck with everything Stephen.

thanks for sharing. I am having a meeting with a surgeon for the exact same thing at the end of this month and hope to get the procedure done sometime next year. Same thing for me. Was having terrible groin and glute pain after what i thought was a groin pull doing a Judo for BJJ class. It just didn't get better and my mobility got worse and worse to the point now where putting on a sock or tying the laces on a shoe on my right leg is a chore. I can still mountain bike, ski, do BJJ but if I go on a long walk I will be in a ton of pain. Got an exray and turns out I have two bone spurs and some bone on bone arthritis. Good news is that technology has come a long way and they way they do the surgery as well and most fit/healthy people are walking same day.

Good luck and may all go well. Feel free to update us if only to talk about how things are coming along.

Thank you I’ve had both hip replacements , I use to do Kenpo

Best wishes. Do you anticipate that you will have restrictions with training jiu-jitsu or martial arts in general once you fully recover 3 months post surgery? My guess is that any load bearing techniques like shoulder throws or any takedowns involving getting under someone's hip line and hoisting them up might have to be something to be avoided?

I have been training for a meer 7 years and am a 49 year old Purple Belt. I had the Full Hip Replacement around the same time as your self (October 31st 2021). My worry was that everyone I have spoken to (medical professionals) have said that I will need to give up BJJ and Judo. I do hope to go back to BJJ (I have a review with my consultant next week).

If you haven't had the full replacement yet, may want to consider hip resurfacing. Had it done myself on both hips for the same reasons. Glad to talk about it if you'd like. Been vey happy with it. Of course there could be limiting factors that might require a full hip replacement. At least with hip resurfacing you can save the femur head and not have it cut off.

You are an amazing instructor. I wish you the best recovery!

Good luck with the recovery Stephan. I had both of my hips replaced in 2020 (right hip in January and left hip in June) and then I started BJJ at the beginning of this year (2021) and so far I've been fine.

Speedy recovery Stephan! thanx for everything you do for us.

Good luck stephen…

Just had mine done 6 months ago..Tried getting back on the mat after 5 months post surgery. Bad idea. Take your time. After watching your hole video..HA! You and I were in the same shoe. The deep burning pain will be gone and you will sleep better.

Good luck Stephan! Thanks for sharing your experience here. All the best~

Thank you for this and speedy recovery! Accurate description of my guard retention in the video also. I'm little under 35 years old brown belt and got diagnosed with grade 3/4 hip. Now it is no running, re-discovering my bjj game and trying to postpone future replacement operation with suitable strength training and trying not to do too stupid things. Can't wait to see how you build yourself up from the surgery! Ps. Do you have any instructionals where techniques you teach take account (your) poor hip mobility? And if not, maybe there could be one for stiff hips :)

I have a titanium rod in my left arm. It has been in there for ten years now because my doctors told me removal is not necessary. I am in my thirties right now and have just started training muay thai with a hardcore trainer. I absolutely love it. I wanted your opinion on if punching a bag over and over again to build strength will harm my arm?

Good luck! Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Good luck Stephan! Wishing you a speedy recovery!

Great video. Good luck with the recovery.

Hi Stephan! Your stuff is awesome! Why didn’t you do a hip resurfacing instead of a hip replacement? Thx!

This is terrifying, but something I’ll prob have to face one day, thanks for sharing

Hi, how did it go? Can you share your experience? Tnx

I had a hip replacement, same one you described, in April of this year (2021). It's been working well and I wish I had done it earlier I quit BJJ in 2014 due to what I thought was a groin pull. My doctor didn't order an x-ray until 2018 when it was so bad I could barely walk - and even then I only got the x-ray order when I asked for a disabled placard. Go figure. I don't think I'm going back to BJJ, but I'm definitely going to condition up and drop some weight.

I hope you're back on the mats and your feet very soon!

One more thought - I am starting to think that all my weightlifting (in order to save joint wear and tear ) should be dialed way back in terms of the heaviness of weights, and (instead) do way more reps with much less weights

Lol I started having hip issues last week too same symptom can't raise to side, pain when external rotation

Hi! I am zenya’s friend! I hope you are doing well!

Hope it went well mate

Spot on brother from a 29 year boxer/athlete

Very thorough video. Great details. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing Stephan. After 40 years of training my right hip is giving me problems too. Wishing you a speedy recovery, get well soon.

do you plan on continuing jiu jitsu after you recover?

I’m 51 did competitive freestyle karate for over 10 years. 1000 kicks a night and wore out my hips. I’m on day 3 after posterior anthroplasty. Up and moving around on the walker and pain is down to a 3 out of 10. Looking foreword to less pain and more movement.

Hi Stephan, Just wondering how the hip is now especially with Jiujitsu. Im scheduled for Right anterior replacement end of March.

How the hatch did this recommendation appear on my KZfaq? I’ve been training martial arts for 36 years and literally 5 days ago the doc told me I need a hip replacement! 🤣🤣🤣

Interesting. I had a birmingham hip replacement (resurfacing) 8 months ago where they preserve as much as the femur as possible, by only replacing the ball. Walking without any aids in a few days. Back surfing at 11 weeks & light judo (ne-waza) 2 weeks later. Phasing up to full randoori, including tachi waza & ne waza at 6 months. Seems like with modern techniques & materials and a good level of base fitness/strength beforehand(which you now doubt have ) that recovery is speedy, far more so than they typically tell you. I think you might be a few years younger than me, so you may recover faster. BTW: I found for the first 3-4 months every day was leg day, in fact 2-3 times each day. Brutal but sure worked wonders.

Very interesting thank you for sharing I hope you recover soon 🙏🏻

Are you getting an anterior or posterior THR? Also, best of luck I hope it goes as well as it can for you,

Is that cup poly ethaline, or PTFE?

im not anywhere near your age, but im a fan of you and would like to see your journey. upload vids of you walking, running etc.

Thank you for sharing and wish u a speedy recovery. I also need hip replacement....just a bit scared about the surgery!!