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A video clip showing Olympic Snowboarder, Jamie Nicholls completed a daring stunt at The Snow Centre Hemel Hempstead has gone viral.
The clip, part of Nicholls’ Sky Sports documentary, Forged In Steel, has had more than 6 million views and received 45,000 like and more than 15,000 shares on the snowboarding star’s Facebook page alone.
The ‘never been done before’ stunt involves the 21 year old starting outside The Snow Centre’s building and dropping in onto a 20ft high rail before racing through the back doors of the centre onto the 100m Lesson Slope. The stunt over the 500m long course involved more than 40 tonnes of snow, took 26 hours to build, 10 hours to film.
He then proceeds to take off a 5m jump to land on a rail with a technical backside 270 to board slide, before nailing it past camera crew and onlookers through the double doors at the bottom of the slope.
Arriving at the front of the building, Nicholls takes a tight bend over some rollers and finally gets air from nowhere to front side 180 to 360 off a railing running down the side of The Snow Centre car park.
“When I first looked at trying this stunt I wasn’t sure it was possible; tight spaces, riding between small doors that are not in line with each other, lack of snow, tight corners, speed issues and so on, but on the day it worked! With a great crew of filmers from Friday Media, together with The Snow Centre’s park crew shaping and constructing the run for 26 hours then 10 hours filming, I managed to get the whole run on camera and walk away in one piece,” said Jamie.
Jamie started snowboarding at the age of seven at the Halifax Ski & Snowboard Centre dry slope in Yorkshire and took part in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, coming in sixth place in the Snowboard Slopestyle finals. jamienichollsuk.com
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