The last X Games 13 occurred in Los Angeles, California at the Staples Center and the Home Depot Center, on August 2-5, 2007.
Apart from awesome tricks & performances, the most incredible thing is the 15 meters high slam of Jake Brown:
Really, it’s painful to watch. Jake should probably be dead but amazingly he walked away. Brahsome.com has a good take on the incident:
Seriously, it looked really, really, bad. And then he got up and walked it off. This guy bounces back better than John from Cincinnati. Take all your Chuck Norris jokes, and replace them with Jake Brown jokes. “Jake Brown isn’t hung like a horse; horses are hung like Jake Brown”.
The New York Times has the lowdown on the Mega Ramp that sent Brown flying through the air:
At 62 feet tall and 293 feet long, the Mega Ramp is so massive that its events may be among the few spectacles held in the Staples Center for which the best seats are those farthest from the floor, in the arena’s upper deck. From any closer it is almost impossible to take in the full scope of the setup.
For the first time at the X Games, the Mega Ramp has been shoehorned into an arena for the skateboarding and BMX freestyle Big Air events. It had been set up outdoors since the Big Air discipline was unveiled at the Games three years ago.
Although its dimensions have remained roughly the same over the years, the ramp looms larger under the arena’s roof. Before the Games began Thursday with skateboard Big Air, several athletes said the ramp seemed to cast a bigger shadow, too, eclipsing them and their sports.
The next skater riding on the Mega Ramp was Bob Burnquist:
This run gave him the first place on the podium!
On the Moto side, here are the Best tricks, featuring Todd Potter (Bronze), Adam Jones (Silver) and Kyle Loza (Gold):
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Blogs of War: X-Games 2007: Jake Brown Nails 720 - Falls Horribly