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Soleil had. >> the swing is a pendulum that catapults fliers as high as 30 feet in the air. the team has never performed on the swing in a show before, and theyre hoping it will wow the audience. >> we were trying to have something maybe more exciting for the crowd, something they had never seen before. >> what the audience sees is certainly not what anyone expected. with the swing, timing is everything. >> all week before the show during practice, i had been leaving a little bit early, and so i...

Same apparatus that cirque du soleil had. >> the swing is a pendulum that catapults fliers as high as 30 feet in the air. the team has never performed the swing in a show before and they are hoping it will wow the audience. >> we were trying to have something maybe more exciting for the crowd, something they had never seen before. >> what the audience sees is certainly not what anyone expected. with the swing, timing is everything. >> all week before the show during practice, i had been leaving ...

Same apparatus that cirque du soleil had. >> the swing is a pendulum that catapults fliers as high as 30 feet in the air. the team has never performed the swing in a show before and they are hoping it will wow the audience. >> we were trying to have something maybe more exciting for the crowd, something they had never seen before. >> what the audience sees is certainly not what anyone expected. with the swing, timing is everything. >> all week before the show during practice, i had been leaving ...

Swing in a show before and they are hoping it will wow the audience. >> we were trying to have something maybe more exciting for the crowd, something they had never seen before. >> what the audience sees is certainly not what anyone expected. with the swing, timing is everything. >> all week before the show during practice, i had been leaving a little bit early, and so i had been going straight up. >> on the night of the show, nicole is determined not to repeat the mistakes shes made in practice...

Cirque du soleil had. >> the swing is a pendulum that catapults fliers as high as 30 feet in the air. the team has never performed the swing in a show before and they are hoping it will wow the audience. >> we were trying to have something maybe more exciting for the crowd, something they had never seen before. >> what the audience sees is certainly not what anyone expected. with the swing, timing is everything. >> all week before the show during practice, i had been leaving a little bit early, ...

A preview. >> reporter: its december 2005. high flying gymnast nicole lev is loobing forward to her teams home show and a special night at her high school in portland, tennessee. >> the home show is definitely the biggest show of the year. but this was sort of what we prepared for all year. so excitement is pretty high. >> reporter: the team has a surprise finale in store that night. the famed russian swing. >> all week before the show during practice i had been leaving a little bit early so i w...

>> the team has a surprise finale in store that night, the famed russian swing. >> all week during the show in practice, i had been leaving a little early, so i had been going straight up. >> on the night of the show, nicole is determined not to repeat the mistake she has made in practice. she takes off and does a single back tuck and over compensates. >> i went too far the other way, and waited too long, and pushed really hard. it sent me more horizontal van vertical. >> with no crash mat to br...

Leaving a little bit early and so i had been going straight up. >> on the night of the show, nicole is determined not to repeat the mistake shes made in practice. she takes off and does a single back tuck, but she ov overcompensate overcompensates. >> i waited too long and i pushed really hard. and it sent me more horizontal than vertical. >> with no crash mat to break her fall, nicole hits the ground hard. >> it happened very fast and i pushed off, i dont remember if i thought, oh, ive gone too...

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