Zoom in!!!

His neck WHIPPED back hard when he landed. Good god.

Didn't Brett Michaels die from a fall half that height?

Mr obvious says that is when a helmet comes in handy.

Holy crap! Talk about lucky-- he could be in really bad shape now. A mascot for a sports team was performing at a local venue and fell and was paralyzed.

pause when there's 2 seconds left. his face is seriously in his ribs. it looks like he just broke in half. i'm guessing he only walked off because of adrenaline, and then immediately collapsed and died. that's ridiculous.

Damn that was heinous.

A girl died near where I live from a skateboarding accident recently which is oddly in sync with this year's X games (and this vid):

http://www.koaa.com/news/view.asp?ID=8501

I wonder if he actually turned himself to hit feet first on purpose. Dude must be livin' right, becuase he ended up with a concussion, a bruised lung and a bruised liver. Pretty amazing considering the slam.

Skateboarders are pretty tough when it comes to scrapes, bruises and broken bones, but frankly, tough doesn't save you from a fall like that. Luck does. It's a freakin miracle he didn't die or paralyze himself given that his spine took the brunt of the impact.

I actually couldn't watch it all the way through...one replay was enough, thanks.....but upvote for the guy's good luck.

Also, I saw this and I thought of those crazy parkour videos. I wonder if these big trick skateboarders could/should learn some of those techniques for landing from big drops.....it's not like it would be that far out of their normal sphere of expertise.

Watching his knees bend the wrong way when his shoes get whipped off makes me think it's incredible both his legs weren't broken.
If he'd landed a couple feet farther out, off of the slope, this probably would have ended quite differently.

yikes.
upvote for the recovery.

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espn pulled it. though you can view it here. he didn't break any bones if you can believe it
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=2960037

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