Over the course of two years, South Africa’s Matt Pallet tore four MCLs, three lateral ankle ligaments, sprained his lower back, and damaged a disc. By this you might think he’s either an extremely unlucky glutton for punishment, or an absolute charger whose physical body is just loose weight that’s dragging him down when compared to his fiery appetite for pushing the limits. To be honest, it’s probably a bit of both. But like the late, great Vince Lombardi once said, “It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up.” Perhaps no other surfer embodies this belief more than Matt Pallet. Here’s the champ back from injury and absolutely ripping around his home in South Africa. If this isn’t inspiring, we don’t know what else is.
REBORN from Matt Pallet on Vimeo.
