{"id":17714,"date":"2009-08-03T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17714"},"modified":"2012-12-15T20:14:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T03:14:53","slug":"video-skateboard-2-years-after-brutal-fall-brown-gets-x-games-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17714","title":{"rendered":"Video Skateboard – 2 years after brutal fall, Brown gets X Games gold"},"content":{"rendered":"
Video Skateboard – 2 years after brutal fall, Brown gets X Games gold<\/p>\n
Jake Brown finally has something else to talk about.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“Feels great I guess,” Brown said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Brown’s 2007 spill knocked him unconscious and left him with a broken wrist, a cracked vertebra and a bruised lung.<\/p>\n
It was six months before he got back on a skateboard, but\u00c2\u00a0 …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n