Video Skateboard – 2 years after brutal fall, Brown gets X Games gold
Jake Brown finally has something else to talk about.
The skateboarder whose grisly, 40-foot fall to the floor of the X Games mega ramp two years ago drew gasps and became a viral video sensation, won gold Thursday night in the same Skateboard Big Air competition at Staples Center.
“Feels great I guess,” Brown said.
The 34-year-old Australian earned a 94 on the third of his five runs with a backside 360 over the mega ramp’s gap into a 20-foot-high McTwist over the half-pipe for his first X Games gold.
Brown’s 2007 spill knocked him unconscious and left him with a broken wrist, a cracked vertebra and a bruised lung.
It was six months before he got back on a skateboard, but … Details