Misses the mattresses and breaks his nose and wrist. still on fire, he runs to a garbage can he has filled with water. he had a bucket of water. fire extinguisher? because of his injured hand, he can t lift the bucket of water. i learned in school, stop, drop and roll. not run around on fire until you melt. eventually, brian drops to the ground. police officer casually walks over and throws water over him. oh, he s alive. not really sure brian was thinking real clearly on what his goals were with this thing. geez, brian, there s barber college. consider it. this video stars someone you ve been hearing from, who knows a thing or two about pain. dare devil bubba blackwell. in this clip, bubba goes long. and comes up short.
His body but certainly not his spirit or his trademark self-deprecating sense of humor. now that i am fortunate enough to have all the world records, i ll do this a little smarter. that s one of the things you usually get a pass on because your name is bubba from alabama, but we are having so much fun now you learn from your mistakes. i ve always enjoyed about doing what i do is just the excitement of it, and for the longest time that was everything i focused on was just how exciting can i make it for everybody. bubba is still jumping motorcycles, but he s also a father now, something he says has slowed him down. well, somewhat. before i used to always think, hey, that didn t work out, man, they are going to get quite a show, and i laugh it off because i m a good time charlie and i like to have fun, but now i m a daddy. i have a 3-year-old little girl so now my excitement for what i do has kind of changed gears a
Little bit because i want to make sure that i m going to be safe. but for now, bubba is still loving the ride, and he insists he is living his boyhood dream. the terrible thing is i m starting to get a little bit old and it is kind of like, all right, hot shot, you have done it all now, what are you going to do next? coming up, a cowboy finds out that when you mess with a bull, you really might get the horns. you are playing with this sort of thing, and if you get burned, you get burned. and it is said astronauts can see it from space, but can a skateboarder jump out of it? it was so out of the box for somebody to jump the great wall on a skateboard. there are so many things that motivated me to do it. when caught on camera: the danger zone continues. the one. soulmate. husband. loving father to your children. but first you ve got to get him to say, hello. new crest 3d white arctic fresh toothpaste. use
Results are caught on camera. i don t remember getting closer to the ramp. i don t remember shifting the motorcycle. i don t remember getting closer and closer and positioning myself for the jump. i don t remember any of that stuff. and i certainly don t remember the helicopter ride that, you know, sent me to scripps memorial hospital, which is where i woke up a day or two later. bubba breaks a lot of bones, not to mention a state of the art helmet. that s a $1,000 kevlar indy car helmet. very lightweight, very space age technology material. you are not supposed to break those things. that motorcycle helmet was broken in three different places, but it saved my life.
on july 4th, 2001, the worst happens. the last thing i remember is putting the bike in gear and letting the clutch up. bubba attempts to jump 22 cars at the del mar fair in california where he had a crowd pleasing show back in 1999. i jumped over 14 school buses. a really cool jump. it went great. it was flawless. i said, we got to do this again. i m thinking, oh, yeah, i got the perfect plan. so my idea was to jump over 22 cars on a harley davidson motorcycle off of a 7-foot high ramp. ever the showman, bubba intends to give the audience their money s worth. so the day started off pretty good. i got to tell you, they paid old bubba to be there, so i made sure i did my job. so what i did is hired a laser light show company and we rocked it. all the cars were white, we wanted them to look really uniform and we spent most of our concentration on making sure we put on a fantastic show for