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54 Icarian After the first ever backside 720 across a seventy-foot-gap Jake Brown in a slide loses his board at the ramp’s vertical lip and rises 50 feet up into the air hangs there for maybe a single frame of film then falls arms and legs flapping in the angel instinct still written on our cells and he watches as the wood races to toward his face until he turns to let the meat of his body hit the ramp bottom ribs broken lung punctured wrist fractured his shoes blown off he laid there as dead still as the thrilled and silent crowd then he got up and walked I guess there was some luck involved he told the TV later I’m happy to be talking to you and I’m psyched I nailed that 720 ...

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