Covered Bridge (Housatonic) Slalom Vid

Bob P · Post by **Bob P** » Mon May 19, 2008 3:32 pm

YouTube Link

This wasn't at race speed, just a practice run. And you can ignore my two touches...

Post by **sbroam** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:43 pm

That is a really neat perspective! Watching it, i wished we could see more - you do miss the onside strokes and you look like the headless paddler - but, I guess it is because the camera is mounted so close to the center of the boat, it doesn't move as much so it *doesn't* have that seasickness inducing feel that some "headcam" footage does have.

cheajack · Post by **cheajack** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:41 pm

Whassa name of that crazy offside stroke that links a forward stroke, a draw and a skullin' kinda thing. Looks like spreadin' peanut butter and just as smooth!

Bob P · Post by **Bob P** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:21 pm

I'm going to try a few different perspectives. I put the camera on the offside to get a better view to the front of the boat. It's almost to the end of a 13ft boat so it's not possible to move it any further back without making an extension platform (which I might try too).

That offside forward/skull/draw is what I described a few months ago to someone who wanted to move the boat to the offside while keeping the boat heading downstream (fast).

It's called a fosdraw. (I just made that up.

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Mike W. · Post by **Mike W.** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:39 pm

Hey Bob, that's NEAT

Thanks for sharing!

Mikey B · Post by **Mikey B** » Mon May 19, 2008 11:13 pm

Bob,
That's very cool. I like your other videos too!

Post by **sbroam** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:02 am

I didn't realize it was all the way back - makes sense, though. If you could get a fish eye lens? A *great* instructional tool!

"Fosdraw" - I like it. Now I know what to call it when someone asks "what the heck are you doing?"...

Stingray · Post by **Stingray** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:26 am

Hey Bob

Nice strokin. How did the videos from the Fiddlehead Slalom trun out?

Bob P · Post by **Bob P** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:10 am

See for yourself.

Fiddlehead Page

Stingray · Post by **Stingray** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:24 pm

All right! Looks a little wet.
Thanks

Bob P · Post by **Bob P** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:50 am

Ray,

Wet? And who's to blame for that?

vonfonk · Post by **vonfonk** » Sat May 24, 2008 10:36 pm

Hey Bob,

Where on the Housatonic is that?

Bob P · Post by **Bob P** » Sat May 24, 2008 11:39 pm

The race goes right under the covered bridge in West Cornwall.

amollohan99 · Post by **amollohan99** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:28 am

That was awsome. How is it set up? ie What type of camera/case/attached/etc. very cool.

Andy

Bob P · Post by **Bob P** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:00 pm

The Helmet Hero Camera comes with a bunch of attachments, including a flat mounting plate. I simply duck-tape the plate down to the rear deck. It records up to 50 minutes of video on a 2Gb SD card.

There are a couple of variations too. Unfortunately, the main site

GoProCamera seems to be down right now.

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