Pan-Ams/Injuring my Knee by Max Culbreth

Learning blunts was a long somewhat treacherous process with many trials and errors. During my time surfing Garb I practiced my blunts very intently without focusing on any other tricks. As my blunts got bigger and bigger with more air, I began to realize that pan-ams may be within reach. Tyler had told me that my blunts were starting to look like pan-ams which is when I realized how a few more degrees of verticality could land me a little pan-am. After trying many times I couldn't quite get my stern over 180 degrees. Tyler gave me a great tip which was to keep my head looking upstream as long as possible before fully turning my body to set the boat down. This helped me get a snappier rotation with more degrees rotated than before. Shortly after implementing what I had learned I started to land pan-ams. A few days later after really honing my skills I threw my biggest pan-am with the most air I've ever gotten on Garb. When I landed I had to much momentum I hit the rock under Garb which hurt really bad and I ended up injuring my knee. I was still so stoked and the injury healed up in a few days with minimal pain.