did what i did that night. life comes at us so fast sometimes, it could be a freak explosion. >> it's a scene of devastation. it looks like something from a war zone. >> a raging fire. >> to hear people telling him not to jump, not to jump. or a very bad day at the big top. >> it was so loud in my head, like it felt like just a bomb went off. >> events that happen in the blink of an eye.

>> he was trying to murder to murder us. >> situations that can force people to make split second decisions. >> if i had of turned one second later, it would have ran me over. >> moments that can mean the difference between life and death. >> he body-checked him. he went flying off his bicycle. >> and rides that can be make your heart skip a beat. >> and he goes go. and i said, are you sure. >> monumental decisions that can make the jump from paralyzeding fear. >> and i just said okay. you know what? i'm doing this. >> to the most triumphant moment of a lifetime. >> yeah! caught on camera: in a split second. imagine a wall of water as tall as a nine-story building.

careening towards you at breakneck speed. now imagine you're standing at the bottom of that wall on a surfboard. it's a life or death proposition. >> if you fall there, you're probably not coming home. >> a professional surfer and ocean explorer, garrett mcnamara tackles the biggest and baddest waves the ocean has to offer. and it's the promise of a whopper that brings him, girlfriend nicole and a video crew to the coast of portugal in november 2011. what was once a completely individual sport has evolved over time. toe surfing where one person on a jet ski pulls another on a surfboard, allows surfers to catch waves that were once out of reach. they were just too far out to paddle to. simply put, this raises the stakes and the danger level. >> surfing is such a, i don't

know for lack of a better word, maybe a selfish sport. with us, with our surfboard catching our wave, not wanting anybody else on our wave. towing surfing, now you have a partner. so there's a -- that relationship. and that all plays on every given moment. >> on this day, garrett is the designated tower. his friends al and andrew cotton, catch the majority of the waves. while garrett never even intends to get on his board. >> they wanted to surf the left in front of the rocks and i didn't really want anything to do with that left because you fall there you're probably not coming home. so we go back out and they're like garrett, you go. and no, i'm just driving you guys. come on, garrett, you go. >> with waves crashing all around him, it doesn't take much to convince this lifelong water adventurer who has been surfing since the age of 11. >> okay, i'll take a wave. we start going out and he started to try and turn for the

first wave and item number two, number two. so we go over the first wave and there's this mountain coming at us. >> there isn't a moment to lose. and without hesitation, garrett makes the immediate decision to ride the wave. and he starts turning perfect to put me on it. and i'm going slow down. because you got to put it in the right spot. >> trapped to his board which has a camera mounted right on it, garrett gets ready to ride. >> when we're sitting out there and we're getting ready, i always breathe. i breathe, i hyperventilate to oxygenate my blood and then i calm myself down, slow my heart rate down. usually i just flow right through it and just enjoy it. and this one, i knew if i made any mistakes, it cook my last. >> with his breath and body primed, garrett is towed into the wave. >> and it pulled me up and it

was almost like slow motion. even though i didn't realize it was going to be that big of an wave, something really felt different. >> to avoid getting eaten by this killer wave, garrett needs to carefully choose the exact moment to let go of the rope. >> at the last second, as long as possible i waited because i'm always trying to get in the barrel. so i waited till the last second and then turned to go get barreled and this big mountain of whitewater came. and it was like, i don't know, something came from up top and landed right on my shoulders. as i'm going down, this, the chops that are coming up the face are like moguls like you're on a mountain of ice with moguls everywhere. it felt like a ton of bricks landed on me. and it kind of squashed me down. >> traveling at 70 miles an hour on his board with a wall of water coming down on him, this ride is touch and go.

and just when it seems like it can't get any more treacherous -- >> another mountain of whitewater came from behind like a train just running me over. when that thing hit me, that's when i was really thinking come on, stay on the board. stay on the board. and then it hit me again and i'm thinking you got to see yourself making it. know you're going to make it. think your way through it and i was just thinking, make it, make it. >> garrett disappears inside the giant mountain of water. >> just kind of gently let me down, and i come out and i was like whoa, right on. i was good. and i'm just so hungry. i didn't get the rush, i was so hungry for the rush. he picks me up, put me deeper on next one. put me deeper on the next one. and he looked me at like this guy's crazy or something. >> one year earlier, garrett towed had his girlfriend nicole into another big one in that very same spot. that moment was also caught on

camera in november, 2010. >> and he said you know, i don't know if you're going to get a wave. i'm just going to pull you up on the board. we're going to drive around. feel the board, make sure you feel comfortable. >> and as soon as she gets up, this big wave comes. it was like a 20-foot wave. not too big but still. >> the second he pulls me up, it was literally maybe less than a second that i'm standing up this wave's just pops out of nowhere and he goes go. and i said, are you sure? and i like, i hesitated so if i would have maybe gone at that point, i would have been able to come down on my own but since i hesitated i held on a little bit longer and it was kind of like a sling slot. >> she let's go of the rope, she comes flying and you down and right at the bottom she fell off the board and she's skipping like a little rag doll. >> nicole takes a beating. >> when i got to the bottom of the wavy fell. and i skipped like a little rock like three times on the face of

the wave. and the whole time, yeah, i'm fine. i'm just going to pop out the back. well i didn't pop out the back. i went over the falls and in the video you can see my little head and arms sticking out. so i eat it really bad. i got pounded. >> garrett has only seconds to rescue her. >> and i come up. and i pretty much don't know the where i'm at because i can't see the shore. i can't see the rocks. i don't see garrett anywhere. i don't see a ski, i don't hear a ski, nothing. >> but he is forced to leave her to avoid getting pummeled by another wave himself. >> so i had to go back and circle around because you can't go in if you don't go in at the right time, you'll miss them. >> everybody was like yeah, but eventually you'll make it to the beach. you won't. i've seen it suck people all the way down to the point before they're even able to come in, and it just takes you to the impact zone where you just get wave after wave. >> so you got pounded all the way to the beach. when she was real close to the beach, i was like stand up.

i hadn't gotten pounded there yet so i didn't know how powerful this wave was. >> and then i made it, and i just let the whitewater take me and i did like a little spin and all the guys rush over and garrett's just strolling nice and casually like it's no big deal, laughing and clapping. and i'm just like dead. >> she's sitting there and exhausted and i go to hug her and she just falls back. it was pretty heavy. >> it may have ended nicole's big wave career but it only whetted garrett's appetite for more. >> a lot of people think i'm crazy. and i think everybody's comfortable in different situations. like i'm very comfortable in ocean. i feel that i belong out there, and i know what i'm doing and i have a plan every time i go out there when it's big. >> there's something about him that i never worry about him when he's in the water. ever. even if he probably would have fallen on that wave, i would have known that he was going to be okay. because he always is.

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a busy commuter train careens out of control and slams into this station, and argentina's worst train accident in 40 years is all caught on a station security camera. on february 22, 2012, more than

800 passengers are aboard a commuter train in buenos aires, argentina. santiago gonzales is in a rush to get to his construction job. the train, as usual, is packed. >> translator: it was a disaster. very crowded. >> sitting next to santiago is his younger brother. >> translator: we were together talking a bit. he told me. my boss called me. we need to get there. i said yes. we're almost there. >> but the train doesn't stop where it's supposed to, at the platform. instead, it blows right past the end of the line and slams into a barrier wall. >> translator: and that's it. there was an explosion.

and i lost consciousness. >> dr. alberto crescenti is one of the first responders on the scene. >> translator: we received a message from headquarters. a radio operator and supervisor told us that a train had crashed at the station with a fire and people trapped inside. >> the doctor and his team arrive at the station within ten minutes. >> we didn't know yet, but we were estimating the number. once the people arrived at the steps, then we realized it was a major problem. >> with more than 30 years of experience in medical emergencies, the doctor is trained in triage, determining priorities in critical crisis situations. >> translator: the idea is to quickly make a mental list of the things we are going to encounter.

clear your mind. be totally cool. not to be guided by your emotions. it's impossible to do if you're guided by your emotions. >> the impact leaves the first three cases crushed like an accordon. the crash causes a chain reaction explosion down the line. the collapsing cars throw some passengers around and compress other passengers together. >> translator: and there were people already dead. and the living were seeing the dead. and we had, along with the firefighters and the rest of the teams to provide support and hope to people that we would get them out. >> the emergency team must now make life or death decisions. >> translator: you have to decide. it's tough, but you have to decide. because you could make the

mistake of focusing on a patient who is practically dying and let another patient die who could have been saved. >> the doctor and the other first responders quickly survey the scene. >> translator: the only thing we could see were faces staring at us. i had 140 faces staring at me. just the faces. >> and so begins the work of extricating the living and the dying. >> translator: the fire chief asked me to get vaseline from a hospital near where we were. rescue workers use vaseline to ease people apart so they could be pulled from the wreckage. >> translator: they did it with the first ones that were most compressed. when they unstuck the first ones, they were able to take out the rest from the sides and the roof. >> the team spends two and a half hours triaging hundreds of

victims. >> translator: they determine how many ambulances, how many beds, how many boards. the order of care. you can't think about what you're seeing because you won't be able to make the right decisions. you can't go back. >> santiago doesn't remember being rescued from the train. >> translator: i woke up at the hospital. i didn't remember anything. the doctor asked me, do you know where you are? i said, no. you are in the hospital. i couldn't believe it, because this is bad. >> due to his memory loss, it takes santiago a week to realize the enormity of his personal situation. >> they told me that my brother had died. i thought he was still working. still now, i can't believe it.

>> even professionals experienced in disaster management are shaken to the core. >> translator: a lot of us, myself included, couldn't sleep for five or six days after. the adrenaline is so strong that you cannot sleep for weeks. you see the images flying around in your head. >> there were 51 fatalities, and more than 700 injured. though the driver of the train has blamed faulty brakes, the cause of the crash is still under investigation. >> translator: when i see the news, i'm not well. my head hurts. i can't sleep. i am overwhelmed. i think a lot about my brother.

>> there are dead people. so we are sad. and we give our condolences to the family members. so when they ask was the operation successful, gentlemen, there are deceased. it is finished. >> coming up, a fire raging out of control forces a man and a woman to make a desperate decision. >> you hear people telling them not to jump, not to jump. >> when "caught on camera, in a split second" continues.

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a couple desperate to escape a burning house jumps off a second floor balcony to the horror of eyewitnesss. while a fire in a small suburban row house goes boom. both dramatic incidents are caught on camera. december 20, 2011. a fast-burning fire rages in a home in downtown detroit.

>> this is a story we first brought you last night. it was breaking at 11:00. two people had to jump to safety to make it out of their burning home alive. >> detroit firefighter michael joiner is one of the first responders at the scene. >> we got a call to a dwelling fire. it was on helen street. which is on the east side of detroit. it appeared someone fire bombed the structure. >> from the outside it looks like the fire is raging out of control. it's actually contained to the front of the house, but the two clearly terrified residents, a man and a woman, are so panicked they may not realize it. >> when they threw the fire bomb, it appeared that it broke on the porch and whatever type of accelerant they had, it ignited and created a lot of flame, a lot of the smoke. the porch was on fire, but it never extended into the actual dwelling. >> onlookers scream for the residents to wait for the fire

department, but the man and woman make a split second decision to jump. the man goes first. come on. >> he lands without major injury. seconds later, the woman tumbles out. >> oh! [ screaming ] >> she's not as lucky. she is taken to the hospital where she's treated for broken bones. the lesson to be learned here with nearly 3,000 americans killed in house fires every year, it's critical to be prepared. have a plan where you have a means of egress and your family can meet so no one runs back into a dwelling and everyone is out and you don't know they're out. don't wait until you're in that situation to try and navigate it, because in that situation, you just don't think like that. >> across the atlantic, firefighters in west yorkshire

england, think they have a fire contained. but seconds after they clear the building, a massive explosion engulfs the house in flames. and it's captured on city security cameras. >> the effect of that explosion is just like a bomb. >> retired fire investigators chris clark is called to the scene after the the fire is extinguished. he quickly discovers the chain of events that led to the blowout. >> on the night of the incident, the second house up was the house where the first fire engine attended what was reported to the fire service as a gas meter on fire. we could see there had been some electrical activity in and around the corrugated steel supply kit with a tube to the gas meter. if we look closely at this particular one, you can see the small holes in the tube where the electrical overcurrent has melted the tubing and allowed the gas to escape.

>> the holes are caused by electric current passing through the stainless steel tube which has a very high resistance and acted like an electrical fuse, basically melting. two houses next door to each other, both with gas meters on fire, unusual circumstances to be sure. but from there, it gets even more unusual from a fire investigator's point of view. >> the fires developed in such a way that the two small fires have been dealt with. and then within a few minutes, the third house up, the door is slightly open. and all of a sudden, you can see the front door slam into the door frame. this all happens in less than a second. >> out of nowhere, this third house that seemingly has nothing to do with the first two fires

explodes. clark's investigation reveals the explosion is caused by a back draft. >> so within a split second, the door slammed, and the window on the second floor has started to blow out of its frame. glass and debris is flying across the street followed by a big flame. >> no firefighters or residents are injured. once the fires are out, investigator clark's work begins. he discovers that the back draft was caused by a growing criminal enterprise, copper wire theft. >> what we do know about these properties at the time of the fire is electricity was supplied to the houses by overhead copper cables. they were mounted on wooden poles. what we believe has happened is somebody stood on the top of this outbuilding here with a pair of big wire croppers, cropped the wire at this point here.

and then it's flicked back, down the street. >> copper wire theft is a massive problem worldwide. in the uk alone, nearly 1 billion dollars worth of copper wire is stolen every year from basements and rooftops and sold for profit. in this case, the way the thief cut the cable causes can the gas leak. the gas then mixes with air. and the result is an explosive combination that blows the roof right off the house. a back draft. and a caught on camera moment chris clark will never forget. >> it's certainly not a normal incident. there are a number of factors that suggests there's something unusual going on. and firefighters generally see the aftermath of that explosion. it's very, very rare that firefighters are at the scene when the explosion occurs and

even rarer to catch that on video. to catch that on video. coming up -- a heartstopping moment when an experienced motocross rider plummets 30 feet to the ground in a mid-air free fall freak accident. when "caught on camera, in a split second" continues. he spilled a little soda on his shirt, but that wasn't the big deal... this story had 30 minutes left. the like really big deal was that he was with jessica. until kim realized that stouffer's mac and cheese is made with real aged cheddar.

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at a circus in michigan, a freestyle motorcycle rider gets in a devastating midair accident, and it's all caught on camera by stunned spectators. february 5, 2012. the ninth and final show of the shrine circus in saginaw, michigan. what should be a routine ride for 20-year-old josh headford is anything but. a professional motocross rider, josh has plenty of experience with massive jumps and even greater risk. but the final act will end before it has a chance to even take off. >> the reason we were the last act is because it's the most dangerous. we're jumping metal to metal to tigers and horses on the landing side. and it was one of the sketchier

setups i've ever jumped to, you know? and that was like -- i was ready to do it. >> although he's done the show eight times before, this time josh doesn't have the chance to do a final check of the setup. >> i didn't no problems with it at all. like i could adjust and do it fine. but there's a happy medium on how stuff needs to be. especially in our sport. because we've had buddies die just on regular stunts just out of nowhere. >> as josh readies for his opening jump, the master of ceremonies gets the crowd pumped up. >> and now, ladies and gentlemen -- >> it's supposed to just be a show, you know. put on a show for a crowd, and pray everything goes good. notion nothing bad happens. >> but something bad does happen. a large black cable hangs from the ceiling. it's not supposed to be there. and it's in the direct path of josh's motorcycle. >> as soon as i went to go jump

through the bars, i seen the cable. and as soon as i jumped, i went off and like it just was there. like in my sight. like it was like -- it looked like just a big line. and i was like -- i didn't know if it was going to like cut me in half or what was going to happen. >> in midair, josh has no time to react. >> so i was just like in shock that there was a cable there looking at me. i didn't know if i was going to hit it or not. and then like i hit it. but i felt like i didn't hit the bike because of just the way i flipped over it, it was just weird. it was crazy. >> also there for the final performance, al bazner, aka yum yum the clown. he's the grand potent tate of the local shriners group representing mid-michigan. >> i sensed something, caught something out of the corner of my eye. knew that it was not a good thing. >> in the front row, al immediately knows the jump has gone horribly wrong. >> i saw him when he hit the wire. that was it.

>> for josh, the terrifies terrifying mid-air moment seems to take much, much longer. >> when i hit the cable to the point i hit the ground, it felt like it took about 20 seconds, just because everything went into slow motion. i thought i was just going to die, you know? >> another spectator captures the moment of impact. >> it was like dead silence at the time when i was going through the air. and then i hit that cable. and when i hit that, it felt like i had gotten hit in the head with like a truck or something, because it was so loud in my head. like it felt like just a bomb went off. and after that, it just -- i just zoned out, and was like, here we go. i'm going. >> josh plummets 30 feet from midair, and smacks the ground. moments later, the emcee makes a stunning announcement. >> this is not part of the performance.

>> al bezner is not a doctor, but he is a veteran of both vietnam and gulf wars. and he recognize danger when he sees it. the cable is still swinging, and he jumps in front of it, taking the full force of the rebounding wire to the face. >> i remember being hit with it. after that, i don't remember anything until emergency people were around me asking how i was. >> doctors later tell him that if the wire had hit him a few inches lower, it could have killed him. >> the side of my face, by the corner of my eye right here, is still very sensitive. it looked like i had gone 12 rounds with a professional fighter. >> josh's injuries are far worse than al's. >> and i hit the ground, and i was like -- i opened my eyes, and wasn't knocked out. i kind of knew my femur was broke and my arm was messed up, but i didn't know my elbow was actually literally split wide open. like it busted right in half.

there are two bones in my forearm were fractured pretty good. my wrist was fractured. and should blade, scapula was fractured. and there's internal damage in here that i can feel. but luckily it was just fractures, you know? >> multiple surgeries and several months later, josh is on the mend. >> i ended up getting some pins on my elbow that i think are holding my elbow cap thing together. and then i've got a rod up in my femur. with about like i think there's six screws and some wire holding that together. that's all drilled up into the hip bone, all the way up into the socket just about. >> still, his recovery isn't as fast as he'd like it to be. >> they say i won't ride for six months. and it's like, come on. it just depends on how strong i can get in that time and rebuild stuff. >> josh isn't the only one ready to get back into the ring. despite yum yum the clown's injuries, he's not ready to retire the red nose just yet.

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the streets for their monthly ride. they're taking part in critical mass, an event with a single purpose, to promote cycling as an alternative to driving. in cities around the world, bicyclists get together once a month for solidarity. most critical mass rides are peaceful. not this one. livia and eldon are two of the riders. >> i go to the march every month. so it was a normal critical mass for me. it was a rainy day. we were expecting lots of people. >> translator: what is important is going there, contributing. to make the program more popular with the people. the event takes on even more significance in congested urban areas where conflict and competition between bikes and

cars can put people on edge. livia says brazil is particularly prone to this situation. >> our streets, bridges, highways, everything is planned thinking about the car. drivers, for example, they don't move because there are lots of cars. >> that evening finds the roads heavily congested. tensions are building between drivers and riders. >> translator: at a certain point when i was behind the people, i noticed an argument between riders and the driver of a black car. >> and that argument is about to boil over. >> translator: i looked back and i saw some cyclists making gestures toward the motorist. en and whether he i looked back again, the car was already coming, accelerating. and i thought, oh, no, it's coming. that's what i thought, it's coming. but we didn't think that someone was going to accelerate their car on purpose to run us over. >> in a split second the

peaceful ride turns bloody when the enraged driver plows his car into the crowd of cyclists. a fellow rider captures the heart-stopping moment on camera. elton is among several cyclists hit. >> translator: and before i was able to look back again, the car collided with the back of my bicycle at the beginning of its acceleration, so it didn't hit me with all of its force. but the bike and i were thrown in the air, and i fell to the ground. i was left terrified from what happened, from seeing people lying on the ground. the sound of crying. the other cyclists that weren't run over trying to help those that were run over. some that were even unconscious on the ground. there were bloodstains on the ground. >> fellow riders tend to those

who have been struck and ambulances arrive within minutes. in the end, 17 riders are hurt. there are no fatalities. >> i am always surprised to know that nobody died in the so-called accident. it wasn't an accident. it was a crime. he was trying to murder, to murder us. >> after fleeing the scene, the driver checks himself into a psychiatric clinic where he was later arrested. he claims he mowed down the cyclists in self-defense. he is still awaiting trial. leaving the riders to wait for some form of closure. >> it's difficult for me to remember this because it was simply the worst thing i have ever saw in terms of violence. >> you do see aggressive motorists sometimes, and it's sad that that happens. but usually when you see that,

it means that the city needs the critical mass. >> billdy paolo of timesup new york has spent three decade is as an environmental activist trying to increase awareness and push the benefits of bikes. >> you're in a car and you're very isolated. so you don't realize, hey, that person is on a bicycle or walking on the street. you almost have this huge weapon. and then you have the bike culture which is completely different. you smell the trees. you feel the bumps, you know. >> but not everyone is on board with the critical mass philosophy. critics accuse the group of intentionally trying to obstruct traffic. and in new york city, riders have had high pro phi confrontations with the nypd, two of which were caught on camera. the first was captured by a critical mass rider in 2007. the second in 2008. filmed by a tourist in times square and given to a critical mass representative shows rookie

officer patrick hogan shoving cyclist christopher long off his bike. the officer was later convicted of submitting a false report in connection with his arrest of long and removed from the force. >> this one incident, the christopher long incident that happened in the middle of times square. what a great location for an incident to happen. because it then can go viral. which it did. a rookie police officer came out of nowhere, we were just riding our bikes through times square like we have done all the time and he body checked him. he went flying off his bicycle. part of the success of the biking story and the critical mass was, the city was doing a lot of the stuff, the police to stop it. so to capture it on videotape was very embarrassing to the city. >>dy paolo credits these videos for changing the culture. the city says they have created more than 2 0 miles of bike lanes in new york city. whoever is responsible, the

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>> on top of a 40-foot ski jump for the very first time, in a split second a 10-year-old goes from scared little girl -- >> my ski is slipping off. >> to mountain conquerer.

>> here i go! >> and it's all caught on her own helmet camera. >> oh, yeah! whoo! yeah! >> ski jumping is the sport of throwing yourself head first down a mountain at 60 miles an hour to see how far you can fly. when the sport became an official olympic event in 1924, only men were permitted to compete. for decades, women clambered for their right. they finally got it in 2011. >> women ski jumpers got the news they have been hoping for as the international olympic committee announced it will include women's ski jumping in the 2014 games in russia. >> for members of the u.s. women's team who campaigned long and hard for this to happen, the announcement itself is practically a gold medal. >> it was a team effort. even though it's an individual

sport, accomplishing something as a team was really cool. >> jessica jerome is america's top-ranked ski jumper. >> i started when i was 7. and i took my first jumps on the five meter. and now i compete on the 90 meter. and i don't remember exactly what my first jump was like, but i remember every time i would move up to a bigger hill being terrified. >> this is the first time that we can actually call ourselves olympic hopefuls and mean it. >> teammate abby hughes had only dreamed of the olympics. >> it's definitely a goal that i've had since i started jumping when i was 6. and when i was younger, i always looked up to the boys. i never had any girls to look up to. >> but now with this being an official olympic sport, young girls do have role models. zia terry has jessica and abby. the 10-year-old grew up skiing the same mountain as her idols at olympic park in park city, utah. >> they have inspired me by being women and ski jumpers. and they have always inspired me because they got it into the olympics.

>> on march 11, 2012, zia, who up to this point has only jumped the 20, wants to jump the 40-foot ski jump by the end of her practice session with coach eric. >> so by around like 3:00, they had to go back to school. so i was like, are you ready to jump the 40? and she was really into it. she wanted to jump it. >> i asked him a few questions that i was wondering, and he gave me the straight answer. do you go faster on the end run? >> a little bit. >> a little bit? >> yeah. >> is it any steeper, do you think? not much? >> same steepness. it's just longer. >> just longer. just longer. just a bigger 20. that's all. >> i was just trying to keep her calm. just saying that she could do it. and she can. she jumped the 20-meter fine. so the 40-meter, do the same thing and you'll be fine on the 40-meter. i was just trying to talk her through it. >> she's in position, but it's an uphill battle for this downhill ski jumper to let go. zia has to literally talk herself off the ledge from fear to courage. >> here goes something.

i go es. i can do this. i'm going to jump. >> i was worried that i was going to do something wrong, try to back out at the wrong moment. i was worried about all the things that could go wrong. things that could go wrong in my clothes. >> in the spirit of the moment, however, zia's bravery takes over. >> i got it! here i go. and then something in my brain just goes -- and i'm like, wait. nothing's going to go wrong. i'm going to do this. oh, yeah! whoo! yeah! yeah!

>> that was awesome. that was definitely the best day as a coach. and after watching the video, you can tell how excited she was. >> the video of zia's jump resonates with more than 1 million youtube viewers. not to mention with fellow jumpers. future olympic hopefuls jessica and abby. after all, it wasn't that long ago they were in the same spot themselves. >> not only is she showing the world what ski jumping is, but she's showing the world from her perspective. but for her, it was something that i think not a lot of people feel. you know, that adrenalin rush and being scared, but excited at the same time. and the first time i met her, i was just -- i was so excited that this little girl could bring herself to do that. >> when we're going to a new hill or we're jumping a bigger hill, there's always a little bit of adrenalin rush, and you're really questioning what

you're doing. and then you jump, and you land, and you want to cheer every time. >> yay! whoo! >> back on the mountain, student and coach savour the moment. >> i thought it was like really scary at the top. but then at the bottom, i'm not sure if you heard this, but i was kind of exploding. >> really? >> yeah. i was like, yeah! >> oh, yeah. i saw the video. >> whoo! >> that was awesome. >> it's so moving to the u.s. team members, they surprise zia with a very special acknowledgment. >> we would like to make you an honorary junior team member. >> not every first-time ski jumper is going to get that kind of reward, but they can get the same satisfaction of achievement and overcoming fear. >> it's hard to be scared and then just say, this is scary, i know it is, but i'm going to try. i'm going to try and i'm going to do this. i'm just going to go.

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