The backside 1620 is a trick that Mia Brookes had never even attempted on snow before. So why not have a go in an Olympic final?
The 19-year-old finished fourth in the women's snowboard slopestyle on Olympic debut, but didn't go down without a fight.
After her first two runs saw her sit in fourth place, dropping into her final jump, Brookes went all out and attempted the elusive backside 1620 - a trick in which the rider spins four and a half full rotations in the air, turning away from the take-off before landing back on the snow.
It has only ever been landed once in competition before by a woman, and that woman went on to win gold in Livingo: Japan's Kokomo Murase.
It was a case of go big or go home for Brookes, and she went big and was so close to landing, instead overcooking the trick and not improving her overall score.
"I could have done a 14 and come fourth or third, but I also could have done the 16, which I did, and landed it and won. I would rather be in fourth with a 16 rather than fourth and a 14," she said.
"Koko is the only girl who has that trick right now, and so if I had landed it, I would have been the second woman to do that trick.
"It's really special, and it would have been insane. I didn't want to do it at all but sometimes you just have to and grit your teeth."
After New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski Synnott came back from a disappointing first run to leap ahead, Brookes was pushed out of medal position with one jump to go.
The snowboarder admitted that she had only ever tried the trick on the airbag in practice before, but knew she needed something special to get back into contention.
"I gave that everything I could, and it's not like a trick I can do," she said. "I gave it everything and more.
"I thought I had it and I did to my feet, but I just gave it too much power.
"I was evidently listening to my music too loud. It's a gnarly trick, and it's high risk."
Brookes will now have a couple of days to rest and recuperate before she goes again in the snowboard slopestyle - the very event she made history in as the youngest world champion in history in 2023.
And she might just spend those days perfecting her new trick with ambitions to finally pull it out of the bag.
She added: "I'm going all out for the slopestyle now. I reckon I will plan to go for the 16 in slopestyle, but we will just see how it goes."