As with most things, the higher risks a skateboarder takes, the greater likelihood of serious injury. Of course, there are the cuts, scrapes, bumps and bruises that can come from falling off your skateboard, but there are also more catastrophic injuries such as what Jake Brown suffered in 2007.
Brown was competing in the Summer X Games in a Big Air event on a quarterpipe ramp. But he lost his board on the way up one side, leaving his own legs as the only thing he could land on. Brown ended up falling nearly 45 feet onto the bottom of the ramp and suffered a ruptured spleen, fractured vertebrae, fractured wrist, bruised liver, bruised lung and a concussion.
