New light, comfortable and solid back pack mount for Gopro I came up with.

Turn the speakers on and enjoy:

Yes, there is a leash.

You can see a cord connected to the back pack's grab handle, it goes through the rod to the Gopro.

In case the Gopro disconnects, you should feel the leash pulling the pack's grab handle.

Tried it, but till now the Gopro seats solid on the rod with Gopro's roll bar mount, even in extreme conditions.

This rod is about 60 cm long, with it there's no handle passes...
It's not to far out and suits mainly wave riding, downwinders, freeriding and oldschool.

I myself don't do handle passes but friends of mine use a 30 CM long rod for that, but the view angle is different.

doonas_r_cool said...

Nice one!!!

Love how smooth it gets ones you get a bit of air. Would love to see it just a little lower for the perspective, so it's more over the shoulder @ the horizon. How does it go when you wipe out? Do you have some sort of QR for the backpack? Guess it could be quite nasty if you wiped out, got rolled and bag and pole got stuck in ur lines, death looping kite... usch.

Any chance you've got some wave footage with it? Also how have you attached it to ur backpack? Is there a more solid plate in there that the pole attaches too?

Cheers for sharing!!!

Thanks,

1. Yet to have wave footage, looking forward for wave conditions.
2. No doubt it ads risk. Using it requires knowing how to quickly ditch the back pack in case of loosing control. Not going to use it in to big waves.
3. Yes, the pole is attached to a plate inside the backpack. Took several trials to find an attachment setup for steady picture. With a better backpack it is steadier.

Sweet! Love the "Yeah" at 4.15 hahahahaha!
Looks pretty smooth there, interesting angle too, cheers for posting.

Even though the kite mounts make the rider so far away, I think it'd be sweet if you had three GoPro's running at the same time. One over the shoulder, one on top of harness hook & a kite mount, them intercut b/w the three cam's back in the edit suite.

It's pretty easy to sync up three cams, just need to clap them in to begin with, then sync up in post and intercut b/w best angle at each "Yeah" time.

Great work with the backpack mount, i'm still a bit suss on the safety side of that one though, but cheers for posting. Would love to see pics if avail.