After at home watching my non-stop fall line first run Thursday from a GoPro Hero 8 1080p POV video, noticing how immensely valuable at least to me that visual connection unexpectedly was, I admittedly late to the POV game, wondered what else with POV recorded bumps was available to look at on youtube? Well not much obvious with (gopro bump skiing) searching but likely buried ignored somewhere somewhere in back page hits. The same I see below could be used by the person shooting their skiing for other skiing beyond bumps. Stuff like slalom gates, comp moguls, and instruction may already be?
Now with bumps, everything is in a manic high exhilaration excitement mode, difficult to understand in conceptual ways or explain with words to others, that watching such on a video is an immensely improved way of re-experiencing and further analyzing what occurred that does not have to do with body form but rather one's reaction to the visual flow of snow bump surfaces while descending. A key skill to acquire via gradual organic neural plasticity is having one's brain neuromuscular system able to momentarily quickly react through natural creaturely movement flow to the visual field of gravity fast upcoming bump shape surfaces that is not too unlike slalom gates.
My first run was from tower 13 almost down to tower 10 on Little Dipper at 9:49am PDT at 30F degrees a bit firm with an icy sound, 67 turns over 89 seconds.
Personally I always preferred static hand held capture of bump videos like this youtube upload, (3.33 minutes):
Great video for its era skiing wise, thoroughness, strong bumps skiing music. Light isn't consistently good. Note there are considerable youtube skiing uploads shot by all in mediocre light often cloudy flat light.
My not much interested POV video expectations were more on this Taos bump skiing level from 8 years ago:
Barely able to feel one is in the picture.
But even at the 1080p recorded level I used, my GoPro Hero 8 recording given excellent image clarity and detail, is greatly more immersive (not emersive ) watching right in front of my 24 inch Dell UHD 4k screen such that I can muscle react to all the bump shape visuals on the screen just as though I was there skiing, making those moment to moment decisions. Just watching it will improve my own reactions and familiarity. Watched it about 8 times, while being able to look at other things on some plays than others. Like the occasional sound of two ski edges clinking together or the noticeably icy sound of my skis against the snow over the second half of the run.
One limitation in this type of POV video is one normally cannot see the skiers body just the ski shovels. But there is one sequence for a dozen turns beyond half way where given sun at the time, slope orientation, and pitch, one can look at my fine cast shadow also. And smooth he was... I'll post that short clip herein after some leisurely time of xx days reviewing [yuk] my Adobe Premier software and policies for my stale [yawn] youtube account.
Now with bumps, everything is in a manic high exhilaration excitement mode, difficult to understand in conceptual ways or explain with words to others, that watching such on a video is an immensely improved way of re-experiencing and further analyzing what occurred that does not have to do with body form but rather one's reaction to the visual flow of snow bump surfaces while descending. A key skill to acquire via gradual organic neural plasticity is having one's brain neuromuscular system able to momentarily quickly react through natural creaturely movement flow to the visual field of gravity fast upcoming bump shape surfaces that is not too unlike slalom gates.
My first run was from tower 13 almost down to tower 10 on Little Dipper at 9:49am PDT at 30F degrees a bit firm with an icy sound, 67 turns over 89 seconds.
Personally I always preferred static hand held capture of bump videos like this youtube upload, (3.33 minutes):
Great video for its era skiing wise, thoroughness, strong bumps skiing music. Light isn't consistently good. Note there are considerable youtube skiing uploads shot by all in mediocre light often cloudy flat light.
My not much interested POV video expectations were more on this Taos bump skiing level from 8 years ago:
Barely able to feel one is in the picture.
But even at the 1080p recorded level I used, my GoPro Hero 8 recording given excellent image clarity and detail, is greatly more immersive (not emersive ) watching right in front of my 24 inch Dell UHD 4k screen such that I can muscle react to all the bump shape visuals on the screen just as though I was there skiing, making those moment to moment decisions. Just watching it will improve my own reactions and familiarity. Watched it about 8 times, while being able to look at other things on some plays than others. Like the occasional sound of two ski edges clinking together or the noticeably icy sound of my skis against the snow over the second half of the run.
One limitation in this type of POV video is one normally cannot see the skiers body just the ski shovels. But there is one sequence for a dozen turns beyond half way where given sun at the time, slope orientation, and pitch, one can look at my fine cast shadow also. And smooth he was... I'll post that short clip herein after some leisurely time of xx days reviewing [yuk] my Adobe Premier software and policies for my stale [yawn] youtube account.
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