Dodgergirl
Aug 06, 2007, 06:46 PM
CARSON, Calif. (AP) -- Jake Brown didn't feel his shoes pop off.
"I was already knocked out," he said. "The last thing I remember was thinking, how do I fall?"
He didn't recall anything else until he walked off the mega ramp about 10 minutes later.
"Walking off the ramp, that was rough," he said.
At the X Games Skateboard Big Air competition Thursday night, Brown was in the lead heading into his fifth and final run when he lost control during his second trick, sailed out away from the ramp's platform and plunged about 40 feet onto his heels and then tailbone. He bruised his lung and liver, broke a wrist and a vertebra, and had his sneakers knocked off.
He finished with a silver medal for the second straight year. Bob Burnquist made the winning run right on Brown's heels.
more...
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-xgames-brownsfall&prov=ap&type=lgns
be sure to check out the video link, can't believe he walked away...
"I was already knocked out," he said. "The last thing I remember was thinking, how do I fall?"
He didn't recall anything else until he walked off the mega ramp about 10 minutes later.
"Walking off the ramp, that was rough," he said.
At the X Games Skateboard Big Air competition Thursday night, Brown was in the lead heading into his fifth and final run when he lost control during his second trick, sailed out away from the ramp's platform and plunged about 40 feet onto his heels and then tailbone. He bruised his lung and liver, broke a wrist and a vertebra, and had his sneakers knocked off.
He finished with a silver medal for the second straight year. Bob Burnquist made the winning run right on Brown's heels.
more...
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-xgames-brownsfall&prov=ap&type=lgns
be sure to check out the video link, can't believe he walked away...