I was there that day, the crowd was soo hyped, and loud but you could still hear the impact when he hit the ground and, I was in the middle row!! It was the dopest jump I've ever seen though. Jake is a legend 🤟
GAGAGAGAGAGAGA this is wonderful! PRANK! IT is terrible! I looked in the mirror and saw something UNPRETTY: my face. GAGAGAGAG! But I am happy agayn because I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS and I make cool YT v*deos with them! Good evening, love and peace, dear fna
"The best medical staff in the business" do NOT let you get up and walk off after that time of fall. I have no idea what, if any injuries he suffered, but it is criminally negligent for any first aid attendant/paramedic/doctor to allow it.
If there ever was a way a skater could go out, this would be it. Your death being announced by one of the greatest skaters ever and literally flying for a moment.
On 2 August 2007, during the Summer X Games 2007 Big Air section, Brown fell 45 feet (14 m) onto the bottom of the ramp below. Brown's injuries were a fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, bruised liver, bruised lung, ruptured spleen and concussion.[8] After several minutes of unconsciousness, Brown walked off the ramp surface with assistance.[9]In a 2013 news article, Brown admitted that "I thought I was good right away, but it took me a couple of years to mentally get back to where I wanted to be."
“Best medical staff in the business.” He was allowed to walk off with a fractured vertebrae and wrist, concussion, bruised organs and a ruptured spleen.
@Phillip Ramos so incredibly wrong, no medical practitioner in their right state of mind would let someone "walk off" a fall like this, especially since anything could've happened with his vertebrae. I guess 2007 was different because this would not happen today
These idiots are saying that getting an injury voids humans of their freewill, are the medical staff meant to push him back down when he gets up? He would have stayed down if he wanted more help. at no point does the practitioners decision override the freewill of the patient, get that through your head entitled dimwits.
I fell 45’ with a scaffold tower in 03. Broke my back in 6 places , and dislocated my ankle so bad that I was looking at the bottom of my shoe. If I hadn’t been held down I would’ve gotten up and driven myself to the hospital. (It’s good I didn’t ) Adrenalin is a powerful thing , but when it wears off all hell breaks loose , and the pain comes. Really tough guy , really poor medical staff , glad he came out of it all right over time.
"we do have the best medical staff in the business." Yet they pick him up and let him walk it off. No backboard, no neck brace, just walk it off bro you're good.
“We have the best medical staff” demonstrated by their complete lack of immobilization following the accident and their decision to let a man with a HUGE mechanism of injury “just walk it off” without a proper assessment and imaging.
then what do you think happened when they got to him? he stood up and started walking, and told them he was ok. plus the hands in the air for the crowd. it’s not a medical thing edit: i’m not even going to entertain the people trying to teach me what adrenaline is, especially when the point is way over their head
The way he landed did absorb some of the impact, he barely scraped the curve of the ramp which GREATLY reduced the inertia, but that was still a NASTY slam. He really shouldn’t have been walking.
The fact that he landed on a slight curve and slid down a bit helped a lot. Even though his injuries were still pretty brutal, they could’ve been much worse
It defiently could have been way worse if it was just a straight slam on flat ground. Hope hes fine though, long term I mean because this was 14 years ago lol
@Ambassador Of Kickyourassador If he had landed on the completely flat area he would most likely be falling into one of the last two categories the you described. You can see that the very slight curve that he landed on allowed him to slide for a fraction of a second, just enough to increase the time over which his body decelerated. That curve saved his life.
@ToiletJohn FN A vegetative state occurs when the cerebrum (the part of the brain that controls thought and behavior) no longer functions, but the hypothalamus and brain stem (the parts of the brain that control vital functions, such as sleep cycles, body temperature, breathing, blood pressure, heart rate, and consciousness) continue to function. Thus, people open their eyes and appear awake but otherwise do not respond to stimulation in any meaningful way.
I remember this like it was yesterday. This was Prime X Games when Pastrana and Sheckler were still competing. I always played as Jake Brown in Skate 2 after this to show my respect 😂
This shit scared me too, as someone that took a 30ft fall and broke my heel +dislocated shoulder joint, I felt like this guy was just straight up dead. He fuckin walks it off, I guess some people are made ridiculously tough.
@@_timetravels4528 I've just seen a video from London the other day where a guy gets punched by somebody while walking past them. Somehow, this caused him to break his ankle while falling. He broke his ankle while falling from standing, yet this guys falls from that height and breaks nothing.
All things considered, this could have been way worse if it wasn't for a few key things that I think have already been mentioned in other comments, but I'll say them again: 1. He fell on a slightly curved, low friction surface, which allowed him to decelerate as he hit the wood. It's also important to note that the flexibility of the wood probably played a small role in "cushioning" his fall. 2. He fell VERY well. The brought his arms in, bent his knees, and angled his feet to the ground. His feet hit first, then his ass, then his back and his head hit last. By the time his head/spine were sustaining force, he was already moving much slower than he was before he hit the ground. If this was his first time taking a huge spill and it was on flat ground, or he wasn't wearing a helmet, he would have been fucked.
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@@tedcrilly46 If you wipe out on wood it has some "give" to it, absorbing some of the force of the fall due to it bending (ever so slightly it may be, but it still helps) versus concrete which have zero-budge.. 0 cushioning effect.
People need to remember that Tony Hawk is a professional skateboarder, not a broadcaster. That "i cant believe he landed the 720" comment wasnt a lack of empathy, more so a rush of emotions and a "crap, im live, i have to say something" moment, which isnt exactly what a skateboarder practices for daily.
Yea I don't think too many people were upset about it. It wasint a very fitting comment for tv but I'm sure Jake can even look back and laugh at Tony's comment. After all it was a very good 720.
I actually thought it was really tactful and sweet. It’s obvious he’s hurt, but let’s not forget he got hurt having just pulled off something phenomenal & dangerous. Tony just wanted to make sure the death-defying stunt wasn’t in vain
To Hawk, a guy who lives, breathes and eats skateboard tricks (and who literally helped found the concept of skateboard tricks), injury is the cost of business rather than something to fear. You can't pull tricks like that if you're at all afraid of falling. You have to accept that you're going to get hurt if you're really pushing the limits of your trade. If he was the one one the board, Hawk would have been thrilled to trade a KO and maybe a few broken ribs for that trick. I don't think he would have traded a ruptured spleen and a broken back, though...
@@Nyctotope No medical team would do that.....you would stabilize the spine, encourage him to remain still and explain that any sudden shifts in movemetn could cause spinal cord damage due to possibility of vertabrae fracture, and lowlihood of concussion and confusion. You would take your time and with a full team arrange for him to be placed on a back board, you would THEN cart him away from the crowd and do full physical assessment and neurochecks of his arms hands eyes cranial nerves etc etc. THEN you would take him to ER where they would do xrays to confirm no fractures. THEN they would be extremely grateful there are no fractures, monitor his obvious concussion and make sure there is no internal bleeding (many concussions can sometimes be disguised slow brain bleeds that can kill you quickly a few days later) You would finally have a licensed doctor do one last slow check and help him out of the backboard and neck stabilization. This happens every day, all the time, I have physically done this 80+ times working at Rodeos, BMX biking competitions, motor bike competitions, and many, many car accidents as a paramedic and now a nurse. If you have any questions though, I would have no problem in answering them.
@@MarcusCollins69 Except 80% of americans have some form of insurance and most insurances have deductibles of 500-5000 bucks per year max, especially professional athletes attending big competitions. It definitely can be better, but no most citizens would not be in debt 90000 bucks, you are objectively wrong.
My mom took me to this event when it was at the staples center for my 12th birthday. I’ll never forget how high he was when he bailed from his board along with the sound of the slam, my mom tried to cover my eyes 😂 The stadium was shaking when he got up and walked it off. Most gnarly and badass moment I’ve ever seen.
@@alejandrko17 - its not clear what went wrong, because, as you say, if he'd come down on the steep slope - which you would imagine he would anyway, board or not - he would have been less injured.
I was also wondering whats the "right" way to finish that. I suppose maybe he should've stopped and rolled over to the ramp earlier after he did the 720 and not continuing anymore further, or maybe he was supposed to land still with a skateboard going down, or on to the other end. Either way, he got the, we could say, most common worst possible landing scenario ending up in hospital bed, but still that 720 though jeez.
@@bishhsasspusi2904 I don't know anything about skateboarding. Could you explain why there's even a quarter pipe there to begin with? Like how is he not supposed to go way higher than he's comfortable with coming off that ramp with the speed he has? Or is that just common and most skateboarders can check their speed or land it after the quarter pipe?
Bro that was a gnarly fall. Here I am having to have years of physical therapy for a couple of head slams from skateboarding that sometimes I can’t even stand up straight and this fucking guy slams from 50ft. My heart goes out to him. Hope he’s good now. Some of those slams are life changing bro I can testify to that.
Hey this guy is tough as nails for that but I’m sure he’d agree those brain/spinal injuries are a whole other level. So much of it just comes down to luck, brain trauma is so unpredictable and hard to understand compared to common injuries like a broken bone or torn ligament or something. Sorry to turn this into an essay lol, but rooting for you brother the fact that you’ve already made it through years of PT shows you absolutely have balls of steel too
Head trauma is no joke man. It's absolutely insane that he stood up after falling that far, but also didn't land directly on his head and had some of that impact spread over his body. Falling off a curb and hitting your head can kill you or paralyze you. You're no less of a man for enduring that shit!
Yea man absolutely I’m actually a paramedic. I wouldn’t have let him stand up. Hommie lost consciousness and slammed from pretty high up. My care for him would definitely not include standing up lol
I remember watching this live at my buddies apartment and after the wreck I said that is the worst slam I've ever seen, not 2 seconds later, Tony said basically the exact same comment. I did not think he was walking away from that. His shoes didn't even fly off farther than what he had fallen, and literally had time to realize what was happening. Amazing.
I remember watching this live by sheer luck. I was at a bar ready to play a poker tournament when this happened, otherwise i wouldn't even know this video existed i am not in to skating. Time flys
I remember watching this live at like 9 years old. it was fuckin nuts. the announcers barely held back sayin "Shit". anyways, I notice hes wearing a blind t shirt. damn that brand was the shit for skaters. brings back memories
What is the physics involved behind this slam? I'm not flying off skateboard ramps everyday. What did he do wrong that slung him off the projected landing area?
Holy shit.. youtube algorithm has FINALLY done me some justice... I remember watching this live when I was 13 and really into skating. Crazy to have this randomly pop into my youtube all those years later, I still remember watching this live with friends and screaming "HOLY SHIT" as he plummeted
I'm actually here after listening to a Santigold remix and there was a comment from a skater kid and I watched one of his vids and I want to start skating since I have a Skateboard but then this was in my recommended lol 🛹
Tbh he could’ve easily died if it weren’t for that little slide right as he slammed. That little slide probably absorbed more than half the impact. That was some mad shit
I fell from a ten foot ladder and couldnt even work for three months. This makes me feel weak. All things considered, I remember watching this happen and was like wow. He's not alive. Then he just rises from the dead. What a freaking champ.
I can't tell where it went wrong. The landing looked just about perfect and he looked in control all the way up until he went vert. It's like he just suddenly gets pulled backwards mid air.
It looks like maybe he wasn't able to grab the board as he was going up and it just kept flying off in the direction it was going while he was kinda flung the other way because of the angle he was at
@@h.w.4482 The board is such a tiny amount of mass compared to him and wouldn't provide enough momentum to send him that far. It looks a bit like he pushed off a bit early as there needs to be some force applied away from the ramp to make him go in that direction.
This is a nightmare I’ve had my entire life. Not skateboarding exactly, but jumping something and the height keeps going way more than anticipated, then after control is lost I realize the impact that’s coming as I fall.... then wake up anxious every time. This is literally the real life version of that dream.
Haven’t had it in around 7-8 years but I’d always be dreaming abt floating above buildings in a city and just falling without control. As soon as I was right next to the bottom I’d wake up with a fast heartbeat.
I've done that before while skiing. I was over confident and put too much speed into my jump. Then the kicker was steeper than I thought it was and all of a sudden I was 10m up and I knew that in a couple seconds I was going to feel a terrible impact and was trying to think how to reduce the pain. I landed on the flat compacted snow, and brought my knees to my chest to asorb the impact. I was pretty young and just had a bruising in my knees but fortunately nothing worse. Made me alot more wary of big jumps after that.
@@EpicVideos2 one time I was skiing on a very Icey trail. It has snowed a lot the previous night so there was a lot of fresh snow inches covering the ice. Well I was going very fast down the trail. And suddenly I’m on 10 meters of completely exposed ice. I literally had no control of where I was going and I had fallen just sliding down the trail going very fucking fast. I crash straight onto a patch of snow and come to a stop. After i got up I realized I wasn’t just sitting on the ground, I was dangling off the side off a 30 foot drop. Definitely would have broken something if I fell in there.
I remember seeing this as a kid in a random pizza restaurant. I didn't know the name of the show or how this video was recommended to me. RUclips is a strange place lol
I remember watching this live when I was a kid. Was laying on the carpet watching and was on my feet before he hit the ground. My dads mouth was wide open even he knew that was over 50 feet.
the really crazy part about this is how instinct takes over exactly the moment it needs to. he stops flailing, he recognizes the angle of the surface he's going to hit, and distributes his weight so it impacts as evenly as possible with his arm up to give his head something to slam into
The "flailing" as you call it, was intentional my dude. He was doing the ole' Yoshi hoverjump technique to create some extra drag, pretty next level tbh.
Flailing is an evolved instinctual mechanism to cancel out your rotational momentum. By rotating your arms in a direction, your body gains angular momentum in the opposite direction, thus preventing your body from rotating. Same concept as a reaction wheel.
For whatever reason I remember watching this when it happened and it immediately felt like he got so excited that he pulled it off that he began to celebrate but forgot he was in midair.
I cannot believe this was 15 years ago, I think I was a freshman or like in 8th grade. But it definitely didn’t look like this 😂 this looks like something from the 90s, but I remember watching this live, LEGEND 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Imagine being in his shoes for a sec. Just loosing your board 50ft in the air and flailing your arms as your stomach drops and you watch the ground get closer. Like damn he must have really thought he was a goner
For anyone who thinks he wasn't hurt..... Brown's injuries were a fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, bruised liver, bruised lung, ruptured spleen and concussion. After several minutes of unconsciousness, Brown walked off the ramp surface with assistance.
"Oh man I can't believe he made the 720".
"Tony, he's dead".
"That 720 though".
Hahaha 🤣🤣
Okay that's A pretty joke
The 720 was more important than his life.
This is hilarious hehe
BAHHA
Tony Hawk: That was the worst slam we've ever seen... but man I can't believe he nailed that 720.
What a fucking legend indeed.
I think he said heaviest slam
Hé was like, that 720 was worth the fall.
Prison must’ve been rough for him…
Hahahahahh
Why
Tony Hawk at this man’s funeral:
“He nailed that 720…”
commentator: " oh no he's dead! " . Tony: " condolences to his family.... but did you see that 720? "
If Tony Hawk compliment you as a skateboarder then whats the point of keep on living anyways
His friends be like: f-- yeah!
And they nailed his coffine at the funeral house 💀
“it was super rad”
I was there that day, the crowd was soo hyped, and loud but you could still hear the impact when he hit the ground and, I was in the middle row!! It was the dopest jump I've ever seen though. Jake is a legend 🤟
Wow that’s something to expirince
This guy still alive while people who hang on the plane and fall in Afghanistan die on impact?
@@abdur1300 what the fuck are you talking about dude get help
@@abdur1300 what the fuck is wrong with you
Can you provide any proof? Because this is the internet and anyone is gonna label you a liar besides these ^ clowns
Tony Hawk "That was the heaviest slam we've ever seen."
Also Tony Hawk "That 720 though."
King bach references?
GAGAGAGAGAGAGA this is wonderful! PRANK! IT is terrible! I looked in the mirror and saw something UNPRETTY: my face. GAGAGAGAG! But I am happy agayn because I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS and I make cool YT v*deos with them! Good evening, love and peace, dear fna
Didn't want the guy to be remembered (just in case) for the drop that killed him, rather the feat he made moments before
@@AxxLAfriku U ok?
@@AxxLAfriku Are you Antifa's mascot?
Its been 14 years now and I still can’t believe he made a 720.
Me neither. Skateboard is still airborne to this day.
Why is this getting traction again? Or is he in traction again?
Lmao
Is he ok?
Lol
"The best medical staff in the business" do NOT let you get up and walk off after that time of fall. I have no idea what, if any injuries he suffered, but it is criminally negligent for any first aid attendant/paramedic/doctor to allow it.
No kidding!! Should have been in a c-collar and backboard.
Yes good point.
So true! If there's even the slightest risk of back/neck injury after an accident you take absolutely no chances whatsoever.
Thats what I’m saying!!!!
This was 14 years ago I’m sure we have more knowledge and spine injuries and how to treat them now compare to then ..
I watched this live on TV as a kid and assumed he was perfectly okay because _"cartoon characters fall from high places all the time!"_
...and run momentarily in mid air before falling, which it seemed he did too! 😉
Wait but he didn’t look at the camera and sigh when he realized he was about to fall!
JAKE NO!
Same i remember watching this live. It's crazy still having memory of this after so long
"Oh man i cant believe he made the 720" as the guy is motionless face down
lmao that was the most nervous comment ever.
I died laughing, fucking Tony.
U could tell he was gonna h alright wasn’t like he landed head first
@@jayrichardson8045 am I an idiot and this is sarcasm or are you brain dead my guy?
Ikr💀💀💀
Best medical professionals in the game:
" shouldn't we neutralise the spine after he just fell out of the air"
"Nah bro, let him walk it off"
Rub some dirt on it, brah
"He's suicidal so just let's leave him to do it again"
Movement is medicine
*stabilize the spine.
Fixed for you. 😊
@@crxtodd16 nah this skater don't need no spine, he did a 720, that's all that matters in life.
If there ever was a way a skater could go out, this would be it. Your death being announced by one of the greatest skaters ever and literally flying for a moment.
“That 720….”
falling isnt flying
Wrong...Hawk is THE greatest ever
Still the only thing I've ever seen on TV that made me jump up off the couch and yell HOLY SHIT
On 2 August 2007, during the Summer X Games 2007 Big Air section, Brown fell 45 feet (14 m) onto the bottom of the ramp below. Brown's injuries were a fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, bruised liver, bruised lung, ruptured spleen and concussion.[8] After several minutes of unconsciousness, Brown walked off the ramp surface with assistance.[9]In a 2013 news article, Brown admitted that "I thought I was good right away, but it took me a couple of years to mentally get back to where I wanted to be."
@BannyX injured
My man walked off all that? They don't make em like they used to
@BannyX died. That was his ghost walking off the earth into purgatory
@@GeminiMoto adrenalin makes everyone feel invincible even when wounded.. Sorry fam, they weren't better made than today.
@@recoverhealth2062 I sneezed on a guy yesterday and he had to get picked up by an ambulance
“Best medical staff in the business.”
He was allowed to walk off with a fractured vertebrae and wrist, concussion, bruised organs and a ruptured spleen.
Seriously? Jesus
@Phillip Ramos so incredibly wrong, no medical practitioner in their right state of mind would let someone "walk off" a fall like this, especially since anything could've happened with his vertebrae. I guess 2007 was different because this would not happen today
@Phillip Ramos dude where the heck did you pull that crap out from lmao
@Phillip Ramos "required by law let you walk it off" pissing myself 😭
These idiots are saying that getting an injury voids humans of their freewill, are the medical staff meant to push him back down when he gets up?
He would have stayed down if he wanted more help.
at no point does the practitioners decision override the freewill of the patient, get that through your head entitled dimwits.
“Best medical staff in the industry” He is allowed to walk off. Guess they forgot about probable internal injuries. Glad he recovered.
That was likely total bullshit and just a reassurance to avoid panic
He had injuries inside and ruptured spleen
I fell 45’ with a scaffold tower in 03. Broke my back in 6 places , and dislocated my ankle so bad that I was looking at the bottom of my shoe. If I hadn’t been held down I would’ve gotten up and driven myself to the hospital. (It’s good I didn’t ) Adrenalin is a powerful thing , but when it wears off all hell breaks loose , and the pain comes. Really tough guy , really poor medical staff , glad he came out of it all right over time.
"we do have the best medical staff in the business." Yet they pick him up and let him walk it off. No backboard, no neck brace, just walk it off bro you're good.
There wasn’t proper medical protocol in place at the time someone said.
@@Nickles4 that's just a lie it's not new knowledge that you don't move a person with possible spinal/neck injuries.
He most likely told the medical team he is fine. If he was really hurt I don't think they would have move him nor could he have just walked away.
@@mr.niceguy3178 are you kidding me. You don’t fall 50 feet and are just okay
@@mr.niceguy3178 fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, bruised liver, bruised lung, ruptured spleen and concussion. He was probably fine tho.....
“We have the best medical staff” demonstrated by their complete lack of immobilization following the accident and their decision to let a man with a HUGE mechanism of injury “just walk it off” without a proper assessment and imaging.
then what do you think happened when they got to him? he stood up and started walking, and told them he was ok. plus the hands in the air for the crowd. it’s not a medical thing
edit: i’m not even going to entertain the people trying to teach me what adrenaline is, especially when the point is way over their head
@@butitaintralphthough6705 and plus its 14 years ago
@@shiverwind hUmAn wAs nOt aS wEaK aS cuRrEnT geNerATion!!!111
“Jackies team doing a terrible job of immobilizing his spine”
@@butitaintralphthough6705 you know there’s a thing called adrenaline?
Human durability on multiple fronts. Straight up legendary.
Tony was probably going to say, "I can't believe he just fell" and corrected it to "did a 720" last second.
I broke my elbow tripping. This man is walking after a 50 foot fall
Star Wish I broke all of my finger falling over
@@vcxa3859 that’s tough
@@notyou6573 yep was too
The way he landed did absorb some of the impact, he barely scraped the curve of the ramp which GREATLY reduced the inertia, but that was still a NASTY slam. He really shouldn’t have been walking.
He had minor bruises. That's it
The fact that he landed on a slight curve and slid down a bit helped a lot. Even though his injuries were still pretty brutal, they could’ve been much worse
If you can be bothered, what were his injuries?
Never mind i just saw it in another comment
It defiently could have been way worse if it was just a straight slam on flat ground. Hope hes fine though, long term I mean because this was 14 years ago lol
@Ambassador Of Kickyourassador If he had landed on the completely flat area he would most likely be falling into one of the last two categories the you described. You can see that the very slight curve that he landed on allowed him to slide for a fraction of a second, just enough to increase the time over which his body decelerated. That curve saved his life.
@@jorgeluisflores5980 what were his injuries from this?
The few seconds where nothing moves on camera is brutal.
"720 flying right into a faceplant!"
* body motionless, crowd goes wild *
Doctor- He has had multiple concussions and will be a vegetable for the rest of his life
Tony- Did you see that 720 though?
@ToiletJohn FN A vegetative state occurs when the cerebrum (the part of the brain that controls thought and behavior) no longer functions, but the hypothalamus and brain stem (the parts of the brain that control vital functions, such as sleep cycles, body temperature, breathing, blood pressure, heart rate, and consciousness) continue to function. Thus, people open their eyes and appear awake but otherwise do not respond to stimulation in any meaningful way.
@@Markrobinson-bb3ti He got up right away though with no concussions lmfao
@@incatm0 it was a joke... I didn't think I would have to explain that lol
@@incatm0 I think you missed the joke lmfao
@ASLTZ丶KARN4GE
I warned y'all, to stay off my genitals.
Now I gotta turn you Fruits into Vegetables
SPM - Bloody War
He almost landed the highest airwalk of all time
I hate you for this one.
Sounds like AIRWALK has a new spokesman.
Hahahahahhahahhahha that was fucken hilarious
Lmaoo
Lmao
I remember watching this live. Hurts to see again all these years later
I remember this like it was yesterday. This was Prime X Games when Pastrana and Sheckler were still competing. I always played as Jake Brown in Skate 2 after this to show my respect 😂
I remember seeing this live. I thought the poor guy was dead. So happy when he got up.
cody fox same
Same I was like 9
This shit scared me too, as someone that took a 30ft fall and broke my heel +dislocated shoulder joint, I felt like this guy was just straight up dead.
He fuckin walks it off, I guess some people are made ridiculously tough.
Dude me too! Legitimately thought he died.
@@_timetravels4528 I've just seen a video from London the other day where a guy gets punched by somebody while walking past them. Somehow, this caused him to break his ankle while falling. He broke his ankle while falling from standing, yet this guys falls from that height and breaks nothing.
This is still the heaviest slam in pro skateboard competition and possibly skateboarding period as far as I’ve seen. Wow
i'd say in all skateboarding history. noone has fallen from that height with that impact before or after this
Truth. I honestly wasn’t ready for that. Or for Tony to be hung up on the 720. Lmao. Love that guy.
@@COLTRONNN Facts, the only thing that even comes remotely close was Danny Way’s incident
i wanna like it buts it’s at 420 likes rn
@Johan Fouche Rocky Marciano had a high voice and was undefeated. Not sure what a high voice has to do with being a loser.
"The best medical staff in the industry..." (as they all stare at him...)
What a trooper. I'll never be able to imagine what was running through that man's mind as soon as that board slipped.
That ramp SAVED him! He barely slid on the ramp but thats enough to reduce the impact. Can you imagine if he missed and landed 50ft to PURE CONCRETE
good eye! i mean he definitely hit hard but it could have been WAY worse
(unless you go flying off the edge) its kinda impossible not to land on the ramp...im baffled this guy even managed to land that far myself...
that is true. when he landed the ramp reduced some impact
Jeremy Early death
Not to mention wood is soft comparatively
All things considered, this could have been way worse if it wasn't for a few key things that I think have already been mentioned in other comments, but I'll say them again:
1. He fell on a slightly curved, low friction surface, which allowed him to decelerate as he hit the wood. It's also important to note that the flexibility of the wood probably played a small role in "cushioning" his fall.
2. He fell VERY well. The brought his arms in, bent his knees, and angled his feet to the ground. His feet hit first, then his ass, then his back and his head hit last. By the time his head/spine were sustaining force, he was already moving much slower than he was before he hit the ground.
If this was his first time taking a huge spill and it was on flat ground, or he wasn't wearing a helmet, he would have been fucked.
@Dreymon Green aw ty ❤️
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This nerf
lol u copy his homework?
@@tedcrilly46 If you wipe out on wood it has some "give" to it, absorbing some of the force of the fall due to it bending (ever so slightly it may be, but it still helps) versus concrete which have zero-budge.. 0 cushioning effect.
I remember watching this live, and I thought we might’ve seen the first X-games death. When he walked away I was jumping up, and down! 👍
“Hit the ground like Jake brown, send the ops 50 feet”
People need to remember that Tony Hawk is a professional skateboarder, not a broadcaster. That "i cant believe he landed the 720" comment wasnt a lack of empathy, more so a rush of emotions and a "crap, im live, i have to say something" moment, which isnt exactly what a skateboarder practices for daily.
Yea I don't think too many people were upset about it. It wasint a very fitting comment for tv but I'm sure Jake can even look back and laugh at Tony's comment. After all it was a very good 720.
I actually thought it was really tactful and sweet. It’s obvious he’s hurt, but let’s not forget he got hurt having just pulled off something phenomenal & dangerous. Tony just wanted to make sure the death-defying stunt wasn’t in vain
To Hawk, a guy who lives, breathes and eats skateboard tricks (and who literally helped found the concept of skateboard tricks), injury is the cost of business rather than something to fear. You can't pull tricks like that if you're at all afraid of falling. You have to accept that you're going to get hurt if you're really pushing the limits of your trade.
If he was the one one the board, Hawk would have been thrilled to trade a KO and maybe a few broken ribs for that trick. I don't think he would have traded a ruptured spleen and a broken back, though...
Who gives a shit
It was a nice save.
Tony as a skater says "i can't believe he landed that 720" to him that fall was like if its a casual day at the skate park lmao
Spoken like a true skater. Just walk it off
I doubt many people hit a 720 on a casual day at the skate park
@@deansuttle8438 hes talking about how he barely acknowledged the fall as if the 720 evened it out
tony never fell from that height
Always gotta stay positive for the homies trying the trick 👍💯
Crazy this gets recomended. I remeber when this happened and I had myspace at the time and had this clip on my page for a year. Jake is an OG
The transition from that last spin to complete the 720 to the landing was so smooth.
Seeing how he casually walks away after the fall, they're surely the best medical team ever
@Pigsty or maybe they were getting him away from the crowd to further inspect him and diagnose him
@@Nyctotope damn almost like there is this thing called a stretcher 🤔
@@Nyctotope No medical team would do that.....you would stabilize the spine, encourage him to remain still and explain that any sudden shifts in movemetn could cause spinal cord damage due to possibility of vertabrae fracture, and lowlihood of concussion and confusion. You would take your time and with a full team arrange for him to be placed on a back board, you would THEN cart him away from the crowd and do full physical assessment and neurochecks of his arms hands eyes cranial nerves etc etc. THEN you would take him to ER where they would do xrays to confirm no fractures. THEN they would be extremely grateful there are no fractures, monitor his obvious concussion and make sure there is no internal bleeding (many concussions can sometimes be disguised slow brain bleeds that can kill you quickly a few days later) You would finally have a licensed doctor do one last slow check and help him out of the backboard and neck stabilization. This happens every day, all the time, I have physically done this 80+ times working at Rodeos, BMX biking competitions, motor bike competitions, and many, many car accidents as a paramedic and now a nurse. If you have any questions though, I would have no problem in answering them.
@@notatrollll and then put him in medical debt of 700k because Merica doesn't do Healthcare correctly
@@MarcusCollins69 Except 80% of americans have some form of insurance and most insurances have deductibles of 500-5000 bucks per year max, especially professional athletes attending big competitions. It definitely can be better, but no most citizens would not be in debt 90000 bucks, you are objectively wrong.
My mom took me to this event when it was at the staples center for my 12th birthday. I’ll never forget how high he was when he bailed from his board along with the sound of the slam, my mom tried to cover my eyes 😂 The stadium was shaking when he got up and walked it off. Most gnarly and badass moment I’ve ever seen.
Lair
🧢🧢🧢
I can confirm. I was 12th birthday.
@@drowsyhowie7015 yoooo what kind of lair
@@drowsyhowie7015 lol..liar*
As a none skateboarder, can someone explain how this WAS suppose to end? How was he planning on not flying 50 feet into the air?
he go straight up and go straight down on slide down ramp
@@alejandrko17 - its not clear what went wrong, because, as you say, if he'd come down on the steep slope - which you would imagine he would anyway, board or not - he would have been less injured.
I was also wondering whats the "right" way to finish that. I suppose maybe he should've stopped and rolled over to the ramp earlier after he did the 720 and not continuing anymore further, or maybe he was supposed to land still with a skateboard going down, or on to the other end. Either way, he got the, we could say, most common worst possible landing scenario ending up in hospital bed, but still that 720 though jeez.
@@bishhsasspusi2904 I don't know anything about skateboarding. Could you explain why there's even a quarter pipe there to begin with? Like how is he not supposed to go way higher than he's comfortable with coming off that ramp with the speed he has? Or is that just common and most skateboarders can check their speed or land it after the quarter pipe?
Man, I remember watching this live. Something I’ve never been able to forget.
Bro that was a gnarly fall. Here I am having to have years of physical therapy for a couple of head slams from skateboarding that sometimes I can’t even stand up straight and this fucking guy slams from 50ft. My heart goes out to him. Hope he’s good now. Some of those slams are life changing bro I can testify to that.
Hey this guy is tough as nails for that but I’m sure he’d agree those brain/spinal injuries are a whole other level. So much of it just comes down to luck, brain trauma is so unpredictable and hard to understand compared to common injuries like a broken bone or torn ligament or something. Sorry to turn this into an essay lol, but rooting for you brother the fact that you’ve already made it through years of PT shows you absolutely have balls of steel too
Head trauma is no joke man. It's absolutely insane that he stood up after falling that far, but also didn't land directly on his head and had some of that impact spread over his body. Falling off a curb and hitting your head can kill you or paralyze you. You're no less of a man for enduring that shit!
Yea man absolutely I’m actually a paramedic. I wouldn’t have let him stand up. Hommie lost consciousness and slammed from pretty high up. My care for him would definitely not include standing up lol
@@dannyb5863 You're right, that's definitely a laugh out loud moment...
You could fall from 10 feet and slam harder then him he got lucky
I remember watching this live at my buddies apartment and after the wreck I said that is the worst slam I've ever seen, not 2 seconds later, Tony said basically the exact same comment. I did not think he was walking away from that. His shoes didn't even fly off farther than what he had fallen, and literally had time to realize what was happening. Amazing.
What?
Right and this gets 100 some likes.
@@ronswanson3826 people only read one sentence of longer comments i suppose lol
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS PARAGRAPH BRO
@@theepidemicofhumanity8786 You really couldn’t be bothered to read a 3 sentence youtube comment? What has this generation come to?
"that was.. the heaviest.. slam.. we've ever seen.. " something about the way he said that was hilarious
Gosh, i remember watching this live when i was younger. Crazyness.
LOL The comentator said AFTER the crash "I can't belive he landed a seven twenty"
D13AL1V3 I think that was a "oh god what do I say now?" panic moment
A. Matthie Yeah
Lol I think that was Tony Hawk
yea tony hawk
tony hawk was thinking...oh man gotta up my game...
"Wow that was the heaviest slam we've ever seen"
"man I can't believe he did a 720"
Was amazing with or without that legendary bail
I remember watching this live by sheer luck.
I was at a bar ready to play a poker tournament when this happened, otherwise i wouldn't even know this video existed i am not in to skating.
Time flys
Time fly's
I remember watching this live at like 9 years old. it was fuckin nuts. the announcers barely held back sayin "Shit". anyways, I notice hes wearing a blind t shirt. damn that brand was the shit for skaters. brings back memories
i think he tried to do a double pits to chesty...
Nostalgia
Axe Body Spray
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Chesty....
Wait how are you not verified
I remember watching this on TV at a restaurant and seeing people at the bar freak out about it, fun times back in the early 2000’s
I remember watching this live, thought he was paralyzed for a sec 😂 glad he recovered. I think he came the next year and got on the podium
That’s a miracle. Ppl often die from falls of 30 feet
and then he comes back after those two years and won the X-Games Megaramp competition in 2009!!! Legend indeed
I remember when this happened. Still get chills from this.
Dude same
Shits crazy I can’t believe he got up so quick
Same
Fr
You’ll be ok
What is the physics involved behind this slam? I'm not flying off skateboard ramps everyday. What did he do wrong that slung him off the projected landing area?
My name, is Giovanni Giorgio, **loud cheering** but everyone just calls me...Giorgio. **thud**
Holy shit.. youtube algorithm has FINALLY done me some justice... I remember watching this live when I was 13 and really into skating. Crazy to have this randomly pop into my youtube all those years later, I still remember watching this live with friends and screaming "HOLY SHIT" as he plummeted
I'm actually here after listening to a Santigold remix and there was a comment from a skater kid and I watched one of his vids and I want to start skating since I have a Skateboard but then this was in my recommended lol 🛹
wow
I saw this live with my mom. It was tense waiting for him to get up lemme tell ya. Absolute legend.
You were swearing at 13?
😅I was too
Same
Tbh he could’ve easily died if it weren’t for that little slide right as he slammed. That little slide probably absorbed more than half the impact. That was some mad shit
Definitely smart move to move himself over, would've cracked every rib and did some serious internal bleeding.
@@MrGreenBeanBeenBeanin yea
What you mean slide right?
@@justinmacarrhur1924 what?
@@tysonlagunte01 i dunno.what you meant by slide right
I fell from a ten foot ladder and couldnt even work for three months. This makes me feel weak. All things considered, I remember watching this happen and was like wow. He's not alive. Then he just rises from the dead. What a freaking champ.
Best medical staff in the business: "think we should get back to Johns Hopkins? Naahhh theres still skating going on!"
I can't tell where it went wrong. The landing looked just about perfect and he looked in control all the way up until he went vert. It's like he just suddenly gets pulled backwards mid air.
yea
It looks like maybe he wasn't able to grab the board as he was going up and it just kept flying off in the direction it was going while he was kinda flung the other way because of the angle he was at
@@h.w.4482 true
@@h.w.4482 The board is such a tiny amount of mass compared to him and wouldn't provide enough momentum to send him that far. It looks a bit like he pushed off a bit early as there needs to be some force applied away from the ramp to make him go in that direction.
Its looks to me like he started celebrating a bit to soon.
Bruh I could mentally feel that slam.
Gives me the shivers every time.
Edit: I'm sure Jake will forever love his helmet after this fall.
He really didn't hit it hard at all
@@flixs1353 would you like to volunteer to go next?
@@flixs1353 yea please do idiot 🤨
16 years later this still makes me hold my breathe when it happens.
Legend. Gets up and WALKS off after that fall AND nailed that 720
I saw this actually happen when it did.. still hurts just as much.
I watched it live too and I was legit scared for his life. I thought I saw a man die on tv.
+Brandon Woolworth I was watching with my dad and when he fell he just changed the channel and was like, "lets watch something else"
+mdavid32 Same, i think i held my breath until i knew the dude was alive.
I seen it too he was hoping to land in the transition but got the flat instead
I was in hooters as this happened
And then Tony says after he falls "I can;t belive he landed the 720"
I was at the hospital after the event. He rolled his stretcher off the roof and dropped 80 feet to the ground. Best trick ever.
Iv been looking for this video for years. I saw it happen live.
This is a nightmare I’ve had my entire life. Not skateboarding exactly, but jumping something and the height keeps going way more than anticipated, then after control is lost I realize the impact that’s coming as I fall.... then wake up anxious every time.
This is literally the real life version of that dream.
Haven’t had it in around 7-8 years but I’d always be dreaming abt floating above buildings in a city and just falling without control. As soon as I was right next to the bottom I’d wake up with a fast heartbeat.
I've done that before while skiing. I was over confident and put too much speed into my jump. Then the kicker was steeper than I thought it was and all of a sudden I was 10m up and I knew that in a couple seconds I was going to feel a terrible impact and was trying to think how to reduce the pain. I landed on the flat compacted snow, and brought my knees to my chest to asorb the impact. I was pretty young and just had a bruising in my knees but fortunately nothing worse. Made me alot more wary of big jumps after that.
@James Hunt I don’t know about you, but it’s crazy the way you can feel the sensation of falling while dreaming. It feels as real as anything.
@@EpicVideos2 one time I was skiing on a very Icey trail. It has snowed a lot the previous night so there was a lot of fresh snow inches covering the ice. Well I was going very fast down the trail. And suddenly I’m on 10 meters of completely exposed ice. I literally had no control of where I was going and I had fallen just sliding down the trail going very fucking fast. I crash straight onto a patch of snow and come to a stop. After i got up I realized I wasn’t just sitting on the ground, I was dangling off the side off a 30 foot drop. Definitely would have broken something if I fell in there.
i've had this exact experience
Damn I remember seeing this on TV back in 2007, the 2000s is quite a time to be alive.
Back when everything was good
🤔 seems like he wants to be respected 😂🤣
The 90’s were better
small spring roll
@@fitfirst4468 glad I'm half Latino, no small spring rolls for me, maybe for someone else yep
Mate, I was soooo pleased to see you get up
I stepped on a pointy lego piece last week... Still bedridden.
I remember seeing this as a kid in a random pizza restaurant. I didn't know the name of the show or how this video was recommended to me. RUclips is a strange place lol
This is a very extreme case, but this is a telling reminder that helmets really do save lives.
When the legs kick 700 times in mid air, you know he's trying to babybird it for takeoff,... "Look ma' I'm flying!"
Him: *fell 50 ft in the air* walks away
Me: *falls off my bed* Can't walk for the whole day...
That’s the gnarliest slam I’ve ever seen, what a legend
I remember watching this live when I was a kid. Was laying on the carpet watching and was on my feet before he hit the ground. My dads mouth was wide open even he knew that was over 50 feet.
I remember watching this live. For a moment, I thought I had just watched him die. Can't believe he got up and walked away from that.
We have the best medical staff in the business.
Medical Staff: Sits quietly while one guy pulls his hair out.
the really crazy part about this is how instinct takes over exactly the moment it needs to. he stops flailing, he recognizes the angle of the surface he's going to hit, and distributes his weight so it impacts as evenly as possible with his arm up to give his head something to slam into
The "flailing" as you call it, was intentional my dude. He was doing the ole' Yoshi hoverjump technique to create some extra drag, pretty next level tbh.
He had no idea what he was doing. However instinctually he was bracing and positioning himself mid air. Kinesthetic awareness.
the really crazy part about this is that he landed that 720
Flailing is an evolved instinctual mechanism to cancel out your rotational momentum. By rotating your arms in a direction, your body gains angular momentum in the opposite direction, thus preventing your body from rotating. Same concept as a reaction wheel.
How is that scary? That’s good 🤣
Guy literally flies 50ft into the air then gets up and walks off a few minutes later...I think that's the most badass thing I've ever seen...
Man I remember the shoes flying off so vividly. Sick shirt tho! Love the original logo so much better than the reaper days.
I remember watching that live when I was younger. That's crazy! I'm 27 now and forget about this but dang!
For whatever reason I remember watching this when it happened and it immediately felt like he got so excited that he pulled it off that he began to celebrate but forgot he was in midair.
I remember this live. I ran into the living room and told my dad to switch on the channel to see the replays.
Cool story bro
First of all, ouch!!
Secondly, that was awesome!
Thirdly, I know it’s been 14 years, but damn, that 720 was clean 👌🙂
This is the type of dream you wake up from, heart pounding and everything 🤣
Dang that really is the best medical team. I've never seen someone recover so quickly
holy shit that’s good lmao
😆🤣
They wasted their chance to immobilize and haul him away before he woke up
Les Brown said: "if you can look up, you can get up!"
What a f'ing Badass he is
Commentator: That's the heaviest slam I've ever seen
" Jake walk few minutes later"
I cannot believe this was 15 years ago, I think I was a freshman or like in 8th grade. But it definitely didn’t look like this 😂 this looks like something from the 90s, but I remember watching this live, LEGEND 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
What Tony said: “I can’t believe he landed the 720!”
What Tony should’ve said: “I can’t believe he landed 50 feet!”
Imagine being in his shoes for a sec. Just loosing your board 50ft in the air and flailing your arms as your stomach drops and you watch the ground get closer. Like damn he must have really thought he was a goner
na he had it right the first time.
The fact that he gets up and starts walking makes me a proud Australian
memory unlocked! i forgot all about this
For anyone who thinks he wasn't hurt.....
Brown's injuries were a fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, bruised liver, bruised lung, ruptured spleen and concussion. After several minutes of unconsciousness, Brown walked off the ramp surface with assistance.
Holy
🤦♂️ a fractured my wrist. That alone is enough to traumatize me