Jake Brown's 40 foot ball in X Games 13

by **Jing** on Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:30 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mD0VMubReo

You've no doubt seen it already. But I just want to hear your opinions. Personally I am just shocked and speechless. And he managed to walk away eventually, which is even more crazy.

by **[Q]** on Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:31 pm

with only a bruised lung and a concussion!

it was crazy i saw it Live and had to rewind with my DVR to watch it again...

by **Silas** on Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:02 pm

Wow, I'm shocked his legs didn't snap. I guess he really did the best thing he could do, which was to go limp and have his entire body absorb the impact.

by **BigKaboom2** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:54 am

I forgot the rules of that competition (Big Air) - do the judges take into account only the first jump or what you do on the half-pipe (where Jake fell)as well?

by **zmac** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:37 pm

holy shit!!
only a bruised lung and concussion are u serious!!

by **Gundy** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:41 pm

I was shocked when I saw this. He was very lucky to come away virtually unscathed. Check out his shoes!

by **Drex** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:19 pm

I laughed my head off, is that bad?

by **Anthony15** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:31 pm

He had a walking stick with him, it was quite a fall he took, saw it on SC a few days ago. He's lucky to be alive right now.

by **Gundy** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:54 pm

Drex wrote:I laughed my head off, is that bad?

Seriously? What an asshole. :lol:

by **Jing** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:56 pm

Gundy wrote:
Drex wrote:I laughed my head off, is that bad?

Seriously? What an asshole.

Well, I do admit, a laugh or something came out when he hit the floor and his shoes went flying... afterwards I was like oh shit he might really be hurt. But the shoe flying thing was a first and I wasn't expecting it.

by **Drex** on Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:57 pm

Hey, I read that he walked off before I viewed the video. So I assumed he was OK. And come on, it was hilarious. The shoes flying, someone saying "Hardest hit I've seen...oh, a 720, nice!", it wasn't my fault.

by **Silas** on Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:22 am

Laughs aside, he certainly should have won. None of the other competitors could do that.

by **Anthony15** on Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:37 am

Silas wrote:Laughs aside, he certainly should have won. None of the other competitors could do that.

Yeah, the commentators should've been like: "Oh he pulls out the 40 ft fall without a skateboard, magnificent, this is the first time I've seen anyone do this trick before, he definitely deserves gold!"

by **Silas** on Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:18 am

Exactly... It was genius

by **Patr1ck** on Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:21 pm

"Wow, I can't believe he made that 720" sais Tony Hawk while the guy is possibly dead on the ground.

The thing I find funny is how he tries to swim or run in mid air. I'm pretty sure we would all do that in the situation, it just reminded me of a cartoon.

Jing, Youtube took your link off becuase of an ESPN copyright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsvsJzN- ... ed&search=

Crowd angles -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-rFIaJozQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q23NWnIc ... ed&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iaVARS7 ... ed&search=

Jake Brown's 40 foot ball in X Games 13

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