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Umm, some dude on x-games just fell doing a bike stunt...

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Holy shit 0_o




Poor guy is going to be a mess for a while ... no way he doesn't have some mad whiplash.


Amazing he didn't break something though. I would have thought his pelvis, back, or neck would be shot. How do you take that sort of impact and not have something give?
 
holy shit. that was insane.

dude's not gonna walk for 2 days... hope he saw a doctor after that cuz theres no way he didn't have a concussion the way his head slammed against the ground. That measurement in the background showed that he was 15 feet above the top of the ramp. ugh.
 
Holy hell at the shoes flying off. That's nuts. He definitely wasn't ready to launch off a half-pipe that big. It's not natural to use one that large.
 
Dude should have won the gold for that. That was the best trick of the night. Go up 40 feet on your skateboard, fall out of control back to the ground, land on your hip, make your chin touch your chest then put a divot in the ramp with some crazy head whiplash, chill one the ramp for a few minutes like a stud, than walk off like a superhero that forgot his cape.

Major props to that dude.
 
Wow his neck...damn. He's lucky he didn't break it.

Can someone make a gif where he falls into Samuel Jackson's mouth (Bish's avatar)?:lol

That would be the best "banned" gif
 
PhoenixDark said:
Wow his neck...damn. He's lucky he didn't break it.

Can someone make a gif where he falls into Samuel Jackson's mouth (Bish's avatar)?:lol

That would be the best "banned" gif
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I second this request. Perhaps make bish pull the skateboard out from him and make the mouth more comical, like a ventriloquist :lol
 
fallout said:
Knowing how to fall is important. The body can take quite a beating if you distribute the impact properly.

That said, yeah ... he's pretty ****ing tough, heh.
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The way he landed, he could have fractured his tailbone AND broken his neck. This is how a pro does it:

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Damn son!

The neck and the shoes....jesus christ and he walked that shit off?!? Amazing. From how he impacted the ground, I thought his ankles would've snapped at least.
 
sonarrat said:
The way he landed, he could have fractured his tailbone AND broken his neck. This is how a pro does it:
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Yeah ... I think he was trying to correct himself, but wasn't really able to get all the way around.
 
Wow, that was amazing.

PhoenixDark said:
Wow his neck...damn. He's lucky he didn't break it.

Can someone make a gif where he falls into Samuel Jackson's mouth (Bish's avatar)?:lol

That would be the best "banned" gif
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SOMEONE, PLEASE!
 
vpance said:
So how does one fall from a 40 ft height correctly?

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I would suggest, on his feet, letting his legs take some of the shock, then falling back onto his butt.
 
PhoenixDark said:
Wow his neck...damn. He's lucky he didn't break it.

Can someone make a gif where he falls into Samuel Jackson's mouth (Bish's avatar)?:lol

That would be the best "banned" gif
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haha, good idea. There's a lot we can do to this
 
Today 08:50 PM
Cloudy
Anyone else watching this? That looked VERY bad...
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Today 08:53 PM
K.Jack
Actually, it was on a skateboard.

And it is the worst thing i've ever seen happen on live television. He fell what, twenty or thirty feet?

edit: he's walking away from it. That's badass.
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Sometimes, the Konex Curse works in mysterious ways.




Edit: **** Ninja'd by woodchuck. >:O
 
fallout said:
Knowing how to fall is important. The body can take quite a beating if you distribute the impact properly.

That said, yeah ... he's pretty ****ing tough, heh.
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...he didn't really do any of that distribution though. He took almost all of the hit with his hips (Which is a really bad idea). I hope that guy didn't so some permanent damage to his hip/spine. It looked like there might be a very real possibility of whiplash too...his head snapped forward and back very, very violently.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/sports/othersports/03xgames.html?ref=sports

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 — At 62 feet tall and 293 feet long, the Mega Ramp is so massive that its events may be among the few spectacles held in the Staples Center for which the best seats are those farthest from the floor, in the arena’s upper deck. From any closer it is almost impossible to take in the full scope of the setup.

For the first time at the X Games, the Mega Ramp has been shoehorned into an arena for the skateboarding and BMX freestyle Big Air events. It had been set up outdoors since the Big Air discipline was unveiled at the Games three years ago.

Although its dimensions have remained roughly the same over the years, the ramp looms larger under the arena’s roof. Before the Games began Thursday with skateboard Big Air, several athletes said the ramp seemed to cast a bigger shadow, too, eclipsing them and their sports.

A ride on the Mega Ramp begins by taking the arena elevator to the top floor. From there, riders choose to plunge down either a 60- or 80-foot roll-in that resembles a ski-jumping ramp, which launches them over either a 50- or 70-foot gap.

After landing, they ride up a 27-foot tall quarterpipe ramp that sends them soaring as high as 50 feet. Their height is measured by a rotating lighted sign that looks like something borrowed from the Las Vegas strip.

Runs are judged on difficulty and execution of tricks done over both jumps.

The inherent danger associated with riding the ramp was on display during the finals Thursday night when the skateboarder Jake Brown fell more than 45 feet during his fifth and final run.

Brown was in first place at the time, but attempted a series of difficult tricks. After landing a 720 — two full rotations — he prepared for what looked like a 540 on the quarterpipe. As he reached the lip of the ramp, Brown appeared to lose control. His momentum carried him away from the wall of the ramp and over its flat section.

He fell about 45 feet, landing on his feet before falling to his back. Brown lay motionless on the ramp for several minutes while he was tended to by medical personnel.

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Pierre-Luc Gagnon, who wound up finishing third in the event. “That was the gnarliest slam I’ve ever seen in my life. I thought he was dead.”

Much to everyone’s surprise, Brown walked off the ramp afterward with assistance and was seen talking.

Bob Burnquist was in second place at the time. After Brown walked off, Burnquist took the final run of the competition. He pulled a switch-stance backside ollie over the 70-foot gap. On the quarterpipe, he landed a switch-stance frontside 540. It turned out to be the winning run.

“It was really hard to go after that,” Burnquist said of Brown’s fall. “I thought he died or was paralyzed.”

Brown wound up finishing second and Gagnon, third.

It was the worst fall any of the skaters could remember since the Mega Ramp debuted at the X Games in 2004.

Burnquist became only the second skater to win a gold medal in skateboard Big Air. Danny Way had won the previous three but missed this year’s Games with a knee injury.

Without Way, Burnquist was the favorite. He built a Mega Ramp in his backyard last summer, the only permanent structure of its kind at the moment.

But not all athletes have embraced the Mega Ramp like Way and Burnquist. Shaun White, the 2006 Olympic gold medal winner in snowboarding and a professional skateboarder on the halfpipe, has no interest in riding the Mega Ramp.

“I just hate anything that can be defined as more spectacle than sport,” he said. “Just like any other athlete, it takes a certain skill to do our sport.”

The BMX freestyle rider Ryan Nyquist, a multiple medal winner at the X Games, was invited to compete in the BMX Big Air event Friday, but declined.

“As big as that ramp is and as fast as you’re going, it just doesn’t impress me all that much right now,” Nyquist said. “I feel like it’s more the ramp that’s on display than it is the riding on it.

Then there is the danger of flying so far and so high. Bucky Lasek said he was dreading riding the ramp because he had little time to practice because of a nagging knee injury that was aggravated by riding it.

Ever since the X Games debuted in 1995, action sports athletes have tried to shed the stigma that they are glorified stuntmen.

To some, the Mega Ramp with its combination of risk and spectacle reinforces unwanted stereotypes.

As Lasek summed it up, “Evel Knievel is going to be stoked.”
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vpance said:
So how does one fall from a 40 ft height correctly?

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Though the landing was brutal ... this isn't the same as dropping straight down from 40 feet. No way you'd walk that off.
 
Holy shit. I watched most of the big air just before I went to the gym. I must've just missed this.

I remember how intimidating (and painful) doing a set of 6 or 8 stairs could be when I skated. I'd probably shit my pants simply launching myself off something so far and fast, let alone worrying about pulling off a trick or going for big air after the landing. It's crazy seeing guys getting insane air on what is essentially a tiny chunk of layered maple with wheels.

As an aside, I wish that guy would've won. I was never a fan of Burnquist's style. He's always done some of the weirdest, most technically difficult shit, but I don't think he's very aesthetically pleasing in motion.
 
That was fricking insane, as soon as he took off, I had hand over mouth uttering "holy shit"

also, gif saved, that is one massive crash, glad he is ok
 
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Pierre-Luc Gagnon, who wound up finishing third in the event. “That was the gnarliest slam I’ve ever seen in my life. I thought he was dead.”
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“It was really hard to go after that,” Burnquist said of Brown’s fall. “I thought he died or was paralyzed.”
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Haha. Wtf.
Skaters really are XTREME!11 douchebags.
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Wow, you can see his flailing panic, then he transitions to either calm acceptance, or positions himself better to take the fall. He did a pretty good job positioning himself to minimize injury actually.
 
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