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X Games Man falls 50 ft and walks away
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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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He didn't hit flat pavement. It was an angled curved area, so it tranferred quite a bit of that energy into sidways motion. It was still pretty nuts, granted, but it's not as bad as it looks because of the angle.
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I love how seconds after the guy lands from the fall the announcer who doesn't know he is ok yet says "Wow, I can't believe he did a 720".
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That's nothing. His shoes did a 1080.
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you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally Posted by olePigeon 
That's nothing. His shoes did a 1080.
*pop* *pop*
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
That's nothing. His shoes did a 1080.
LOL!
man that was mental, i think ill stick to my longboarding, stay off the verts, i take it its the first ever 720 off non-vert as hawks been doing 900's for years
Matt
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incredible. he didn't have any internal bleeding that he wasn't aware of when he walked off the stage did he?
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holy crap, that was sick. I mean, really sick.
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Originally Posted by Sealobo
incredible. he didn't have any internal bleeding that he wasn't aware of when he walked off the stage did he?
No, just a little drain bamage.
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The girls will love him forever. Drama!
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His shoes just "popped" off.
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He fell probably the best way that he could. His feet hit first, and a good deal of the impact was absorbed by his shoes, which is why they flew off. He still hit is back pretty hard, and while it's hard to tell from the footage, he probably had his elbows instinctively down, and the pads did what they're supposed to, especially for his head.
Years of training and learning how to fall properly saved his life.
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Originally Posted by starman
It was 25 ft.
he was 15-20' out of a 25 foot quarterpipe, and he landed just about as flat as you can. i'd say 40' just about right.
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Originally Posted by Visnaut
He fell probably the best way that he could. His feet hit first, and a good deal of the impact was absorbed by his shoes, which is why they flew off. He still hit is back pretty hard, and while it's hard to tell from the footage, he probably had his elbows instinctively down, and the pads did what they're supposed to, especially for his head.
Years of training and learning how to fall properly saved his life.
Not the case with this fall, but landing feet first is actually a leading cause of spinal compression fractures in trauma, if the impact is more upwards.
Off topic slightly, but a patient who has a mechanism of injury that was a significant feet first downward fall, with one or more heel fractures, will be treated as a high risk spinal until proven otherwise. On impact the energy is transferred straight up to the spinal column.
In regards to this particular incident I have seen many people walk away from falls like this, but I have also seen several people paralyzed from half that fall. Honestly I am amazed at the lack of medical care provided at this event. To walk a person out with that mechanism of injury is not only contrary to all basic trauma management principles, but is a huge legal liability for the event hosts.
Because everything turned out ok, not much will be said. If the dude had ended up a quad, all hell would be raised.
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I do that all the time when I need to pop my back. Works wonders
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