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Jake Brown's 50-foot X Games Fall
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backstagerob
Dublin
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davescarpetti
C'ville
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He's superman. Ouch.
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DJAnimosity
C-Bus
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I saw this live, and I honestly thought the guy was dead.
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adamcrumart
Columbus
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if you stop it at the exact right second you can see his body bent completely in half, he broke a vertebrae
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DJAnimosity
C-Bus
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adamcrumart wrote if you stop it at the exact right second you can see his body bent completely in half, he broke a vertebrae
He wouldn't be up walking 20 minutes later if he broke a vertabra.
He was officially diagnosed with a bruised lung and a broken wrist.
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mightymighty
North Side
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this happened to me twice last week!
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WILDMAN
Westerville, Ohio
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DJAnimosity wrote
adamcrumart wrote if you stop it at the exact right second you can see his body bent completely in half, he broke a vertebrae
He wouldn't be up walking 20 minutes later if he broke a vertabra.
He was officially diagnosed with a bruised lung and a broken wrist.
thank you for correcting that person. he actually showed up for a lil bit at the x-games yesterday walking with a cane. i have to say when i watched it live, my heart stop b/c that was the most insane fall i have ever seen watching the x-games in the past few years. he was very lucky b/c it could of been a lot worst. i have a lot of respect for these guys/girls who put their bodies on the line the way they do at x-games.
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EatDrinkColumbus
Bexley
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milodesc wrote dude... wtf are these guys doing?! not the type of skateboarding that i'm used to seeing. they're turning into stuntmen. america has corrupted skateboarding. that is out of control.
it's the big air competition.
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jpizzow
580 N. Park St.
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that's why they called the x games. broken bones are nothing to these guys. all have several. but one has to wander where the line is drawn. i mean are they going to start biking thru mine fields and and racing down the "devil's backbone" (for you cheesy airborne movie fans)
all in all, i give the fall a 95.50. wickedly sick gnarly dude.
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WILDMAN
Westerville, Ohio
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EatDrinkColumbus wrote
milodesc wrote dude... wtf are these guys doing?! not the type of skateboarding that i'm used to seeing. they're turning into stuntmen. america has corrupted skateboarding. that is out of control.
it's the big air competition.
yep..its a big air competition. i'm glad you corrected that person on that. if that person watched the entire x-game series, he would of saw that they had the street skateboarding competition as well as the Vert competition in which Shaun White took home his 1st gold in that event. he had a hell of a run. so, they still do have the skateboarding that we are use to seeing that Hawk and the other guys have been doing for many years.
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honavery
Arizona
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I was also watching this live. I was kind of half asleep watching it and immediately sat up when it happened. I can't believe he walked away from it. Back in the day I used to watch a lot of those skater crashing videos, and that is by far the worst fall I've ever seen.
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milodesc
NJ
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jpizzow wrote ...one has to wander where the line is drawn.
exactly... its turning into more of an "evil knievel" type event. that dude could have died had he fallen a different way... i think that big air event is stupid. just leave it at street/vert and call it a day.
btw, i was mistaken when i said "america" corrupted skateboarding. really, its the media.
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columbus native
Columbus the indie art capital of the world
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milodesc wrote dude... wtf are these guys doing?! not the type of skateboarding that i'm used to seeing. they're turning into stuntmen. america has corrupted skateboarding. that is out of control.
skatebaorders turing into stuntmen??? when exactly did you tune into the sport. Every extreme sport is exactly that. Once you add the progression of the sport for the duration it has been around it's bound to happen. when people began to ski ther ewas no long jump, downhill slalem, or the extreme sking that goes down these days where they grind and ride halfpipe. It's just natural progression mixed with what us viewers want to see. It is their job and without progression the career will enevitably die.
As for the fall it was hard to watch for someone that would participate in a similar genre of sports. The way his shoes popped off from the fall was just sick. However it also show the dedication these guys have for training and also the strength of the extreme sport body. I was honestly more scared when the other guy almost went over the back of the deck. the sport itself is crazy, but that is what makes us watch it.
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