Behind the Scenes at the 2007 X-Games: Big Falls, Big Finishes and Big Parties

The meeting is top secret.

The players: skateboarders Danny Way, Pierre-Luc Gagnon and new media sensation Jake Brown.

While the meeting isn't anything special from what the friends might have on any other Saturday afternoon - to catch up and chat - today there is an ESPN camera crew to document the gathering. Just 48-hours ago, the rendezvous would be anything but newsworthy, but today it is a milestone for Brown, who friends have secretly nicknamed, "The Terminator" after he survived a 45-foot free fall during the Skateboard Air Big Final. He escaped with merely a cast on his broken right wrist and a minor fractured vertebra. Brown, who was recently released from the hospital, lifts up his shirt as if to show he is all in one piece.

"Dude, your video on You-Tube has like over 2 million hits," says Gagnon to Brown, who barely remembers the fifth and final jump that knocked him unconscious. The video of the fall quickly flooded the Internet and can be hard to watch for even the toughest viewers. But it has practically made Brown, who for the most part was unknown outside the skateboarding world, a house-hold name.

The meeting, which is kept quiet to avoid a rush of fans, is taking place just outside the back gates of the Home Depot Center on a sunny Saturday afternoon, while thousands of spectators inside have come to watch the many competitions. Around the events are hundreds of booths where companies have raffles, bands perform throughout the day, athletes sign autographs, skateboard companies have free give-a-ways and young, future X-Games hopefuls practice skateboarding in the kiddie park. Walking around in what feels like 100-degree weather it is easy to hear people still whispering about Thursday's fall.