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Øystein Bråten's pulls off the world's first flip-on-flip-off rail trick in Skibyen, Norway.
Øystein Bråten
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Øystein Bråten landed the rail-trick of the century!
Breaking the rules of what was the standard, Bråten landed an underflip 450 on to the rail and stomped a misty 450 off of a rail in Skibyen, Norway.
“The idea came from riding rails with Andreas [Håtveit] and Bendik [Øye] really,” says Bråten. The three have been training together in Andreas’ backyard for years, consistently dropping jaws with the progressive rail skills in their edits. I wasn’t sure if it was going to work before we built the setup, but I believed in it for sure," explains Øystein Bråten.
Watch this world first in the video player below.
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Flip On, Flip Off
Flip On, Flip Off
Building a tailor-made custom rail with Håtveit was all it took to turn this dream into a reality. After skiing the feature the first day, Bråten grew more and more comfortable with flipping both in and out. “Yeah… this is going to work,” he convinced himself.
Behind the camera
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Then, under blue skies, flawless weather and a film team, it was on.
Bråten turned that confidence into the majesty that is the first ever flip-on to flip-out of a rail: an underflip 450 on, to misty 450 out.
“It was cool, definitely a crazy feeling,” he says. “I haven’t done anything like it before, so it was really fun!”
In the air
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And there you have it. The bar has been raised, and no doubt it will be raised again by Bråten in the near future.
“I’ll try to think of something new, and if something comes up, I like filming so it would be cool to get some more crazy shots like that!”
Our guess is that we won’t have to wait too long before he does.
Accomplished!
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Watch more of Bråten along with Jesper Tjäder and Oscar Wester every other week in their all-new webseries, Send It!