>> white: just me. >> simon: this is shaun's pipe. geared up and hitched a ride to the very top. >> white: woo. >> simon: for two months, with his own camera team in tow, shaun white taught himself a dizzying array of moves. first, to avoid injury, he tried them out in this foam pit... >> white: that one felt great. >> simon: ...and then on the unforgiving 22-foot-high walls of his half pipe. the pay-off? this new trick-- two flips, three spins, all at once-- daring, difficult and, until then, undoable. >> white: i'm freaking out. >> simon: are you scared when you do a trick like that? >> white: i'm a little nervous. i mean, you can throw the same thing into the foam pit as much as you want, but at a certain point, you still have to get that kind of gall to throw it onto the actual wall of the half pipe. >> simon: shaun's landings weren't always soft or perfect. his composure wasn't, either. but that's one of the perks of training in the middle of the wilderness. why didn't you build a pipe or use a pipe in a... >> white: normal... >>