SHAUN WHITE'S NEAR DECAPITATION

Shaun White almost died on the SuperPipe

By VBS STAFF

In case you missed it, Shaun White almost died practicing for the X Games. No joke, that ginger-headed maniac lost his helmet and then bashed his neck/head in an fall that looked pretty damn un-survivable. Our very own Trevar Cushing had this to say about the spill:

“He scorpioned the deck with his face! Yeah, I thought he was either dead or was going to need extensive face reconstruction surgery. Then he gets up and only has a rug burn. I seriously thought he was going to be dead: decapitation-style execution. At the time I thought ESPN aired a live decapitation.”

White went on to win SuperPipe gold, an hour after the fall. How does he do it? His super-secret, accessible-by-helicopter-only half pipe in Colorado might have something to do with it.

Can’t wait to see Shaun in the Winter Olympics? Watch for him in Powder and Rails.

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