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Exciting enough for me. i don't have to launch myself off bridges and get my kicks at the moment. danger is not my middle name, but i guess i've always had injuries from doing stupid things, so there's always been something wrong with me. >> speed is my middle name. coming up, a motorcycle jump leaves its rider dazed and confused. >> i don't have any memory of the jump that night. >> a mid-air collision puts a sky diver on a crash course with the ground. >> for a brief time i thought that i was going to die. and a skier tries to outrun an avalanche. >> when i saw the video, that's when i r...

Have that we make skateboards out of. not only that, i happened to bring my u.s., my construction crew down there to work with the chinese to make sure this thing was sound and dimensions were translated correctly from --you know, standard to metric. when i actually got there and saw this thing getting constructed, i felt like i already accomplished my goal, to have a western come to china, californian jumping the great wall in a country like china. i never thought in a million years that would happen. >> but big projects can sometimes mean big problems. >> some of the things did come out a li...

Where i woke up a day or two later. >> bubba breaks a lot of bones, not to mention a state-of-the-art helmet. >> it's a very 1,000 kevlar indy car helmet. very lightweight, very space hitch technology material. you are not supposed to break those things. that motorcycle helmet was broken in three different places, but it saved my life. >> saves his life but barely. >> i had a major head injury. i had bleeding on the brain. i crushed my right shoulder, broke the collarbone and my shoulder blade in the back. i broke all of my ribs, i punctured both lungs, ruptured spleen, i shattered my pelvis, ...

Of the challenge and finished and taking my gear off and be like, thank god it's over with and relaxed and not feel that pressure or the pain. >> he gets ready to make the jump. >> it was a leap of faith, pretty much, yes, definitely a leap of faith. >> a leap of faith, maybe, a dangerous jump, definitely. he flies down the ramp and misses the landing. but danny takes the old saying to heart. if at first you don't succeed, try, try again, no matter what. >> i went back up there, 10 stories to get to the top of that thing. a fractured ankle in the hot humidity, construction all the way to the t...

Just happen. my ankle is fine, i could not accept that i broke my ankle, the most devastating day ever the day before this is to happen. i'm laying on the bottom of the ramp going, no way this is over. all this work and this isn't going to happen. >> danny goes back to the hotel determined that the next day, he will make the jump. >> i would never have thrown the towel in on it. i just didn't know if i was physically going to be able to accomplish it. i mentally was there to do whatever it took to get over the wall. i didn't know if my ankle was going to give out or not. i'm ready to go. is th...