Today I'm going to be looking up wakeboarding with my GoPro
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Capture the Action with Martin Dorey
Hello, I am Martin Dorey and you are watching Adorama TV. Today I'm here at North Devon
Wake Park to talk about using my GoPro with wake boarding.
Now this is a serious high-impact
water environment so there's a couple things we need to think about. Firstly
- we need to make sure that the GoPro is watertight
so we need to protect against that. We also need to make sure
that the GoPro won't fog up with the change in temperature
when it goes from the air to the water. Secondly we need to make sure that we don't lose
any cameras, that they don't come clear from their mounts because when you wipe out on
this thing
it can give it a real jolt. And if obviously the camera comes loose in their mounts then they are not
tethered properly and
they going straight to the bottom of the lake and the chance of finding them are
just about zero.
Ok, so the first thing I wanna try
is using my old faithful seat pole mount
which should mount on the tow handle
likes so. Give me a nice
interesting angle on the terror on my face as I go down the course.
Couple things that I'm using here I'm going to use tethers
to tether the mount
to the handle itself so if this fails this will hold it also
I'm using a floaty backdoor, so that if the whole thing comes loose at least it
will float in the water and we'll be able to find it.
Finally to stop fogging, I'm going to open up the case
and chuck in a couple of anti-fog inserts
which will suck all the moisture outside of the inside of the waterproof case
so that we don't get fog ruining our shots, and the other thing I'm gonna be
using on this run
is my old faithful chesty harness as we know it's a really great way of getting
a shot
looking forward so I'm hoping that I should be able to get shot
of the break now this is pretty solid this thing but I'm still tethering it I
haven't got a floaty backdoor on this I just have to hope for the best.
That the whole thing doesn't come loose and we loose it in the lake.
Okay so here we go, so we're already. Now I've got the
camera nice and solid on the bar there
and I've also got camera tethers in case the whole thing comes loose
I've got floaty backdoor in case the whole thing comes away and we lose it
and also
I've got anti-fog in sets in there to stop the whole thing from fogging up
so this really no reason that I shouldn't get changed and get in the water we
got our fail safes.
Lets hope I can do it justice!
Right... brilliant okay
lets try some different angles next one going to try mounting on the board
and see if I can get
that ultimate selfie from the helmet.
Right okay so I've now got this rather
glamorous looking mount. Give me the ultimate
selfie and
suction mount on the front of the board. Both of these mounts are tethered.
This once the helmet the other one to the boot,
I've got floating mounts on it, a I've got all the bits and pieces I''m absolutely
ready to go.
Let's see what we get!
Right well that's fantastic and there is
only so much I can do as I am a complete
amateur. But let's see what we can do
in the hand of the professional. This is Alfie. Alfie take it away...
Now look there goes Alfie!
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