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• ChrisWei - Aug 04 2007 | 13, big, video

  Quoted: http://k1speed.comJake Brown falls 40+ feet in the X-Games 13 Big Air event and lands on his back ... and guess what. The guy walked away! Unbelievable !!!
• srainier - Aug 03 2007 | video

  Extreeeeemmmmeeee!!!!! Oh, wait, you can actually get hurt doing this?

  Quoted: Jake Brown falls 50 feet in the X-Games 13 Big Air event and lands on his back ... and guess what. The guy walked away! Unbelievable !!!

  • akabagel - Aug 03 2007
    

    OMG
• mike - Aug 03 2007 | x games, skateboard, accident, fall, video

  Amazing footage of a 50 foot fall flat to the floor of a vert-ramp. After a couple minutes, he walked away. You can see from the slow motion footage that he absorbed much of the impact with his legs, much like a hit-and-roll they teach parachute jumpers. Good thing he was wearing a helmet too, and his head whipped the ground pretty hard.

  Quoted: http://k1speed.comJake Brown falls 50 feet in the X-Games 13 Big Air event and lands on his back ... and guess what. The guy walked away! Unbelievable !!!

  • derek - Aug 03 2007
    

    His shoes flying off really gives a hint as to the impact ... crazy!

  • sung - Aug 03 2007
    

    holy crap - that looks so painful. i'm shocked that he walked away from that. i would hate to be the guy after him - i'd be scared shitless.

  • mike - Aug 03 2007
    

    the ramps should be designed so that it's hard to fall in the flats - you want to fall on the slope to cushion the fall. He must have pushed off from the board as he was launching off the top.

  • mike - Aug 06 2007
    

    This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by ESPN, Inc.

  • derek - Aug 06 2007
    

    ESPN is super smart, having thousands of people see your brand is BAD BUSINESS! Think of how much money ESPN was losing while that video was up. I mean, I can't imagine how many jobs were lost. Think of the children.

  • sung - Aug 06 2007
    

    agreed - think of the children!
• baorao - Aug 03 2007 | video, sports

  As they say in hockey... Yard Sale!!

  Perhaps next year the course designers will take a class in remedial physics.

  Quoted: Jake Brown falls 50 feet in the X-Games 13 Big Air event and lands on his back ... and guess what. The guy walked away!

  • derek - Aug 03 2007
    

    Extreme high, extreme low ...

  • drew_s - Aug 05 2007
    

    Another skater designed it. He was interviewed on Sportscenter and the guy (young, don't remember his name) didn't even bother to ask about the wisdom of sending someone 5 stories in the air. But the skater/designer was pretty frank about the commercial need for X participants to be increasingly...extreme.

  • baorao - Aug 05 2007
    

    I saw that, his name was Danny Way and he evidently jumped the Great Wall of China. I am not a stunt expert, but the risk falling "with the grain" (so to speak) of a ramp from 50 feet or so has to be infinitely more preferable and less dangerous than getting hung out to dry on a straight drop.

    I've seen skaters bail on a trick before and when they've gone up and realized they weren't going to stick the landing their able to use the kneepads to sort of slide their way out of serious trouble. This was not that.