<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KBvCrSjpx9I"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KBvCrSjpx9I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> X-Games last night. Jake Brown. Amaaaazing. I would probably be dead If I was him.
I saw this last night. I wanted to post it, but I was in bed. His shoes exploded off of him. I was watching it at the start and said to myself, someone is going to get hurt real bad. What happen to regular vert?
He took the fall perfectly. He had his knees bent and have the legs absorb most of the blow before falling on his butt. I'm glad he's okay.
I'd never be that lucky in a fall like that, I'd have one of my legs behind my back and an arm twisted in some direction it was never intended. Guy got very lucky that was one hellva a fall
Someone on another board posted a slow-motion .gif of the fall. I didn't realize a spine could bend like that!
He landed on the slope so he there was some level of deceleration as he hit the surface of the ramp and his vertical movement was transfered to horizontal. I'm sure it still hurt like hell but a few more feet out away from the curve and he is a dead man.
Amazing... Sometimes its incredible what the human body can take like hearing that most people only had minor injuries in the 35W bridge collapse. One thing that I'm surprised is that stuff like this doesn't happen more often in skateboarding and other extreme sports.
