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    0 starsbaorao | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 03 2007 | video, sports
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    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!

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    • 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.

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