This was my shoulder in 2004...
The injury was traumatic, as opposed to degenerative, making the repair more successful as the Doctor did not have to resect a bunch of inflamed diseased tissue. I was out climbing easy stuff and doing peaks in 6 months, but it took a year to be back at full strength.
Oh, I think the type of skiing Shortimer is talking about above involves being pulled across the surface of a lake at high speed...