What's best view gopro on paddle facing up mounted on nose mouthpeice chest harness or on head????

Iv never heard of a "nose mouthpeice chest harness"

Ill have to order me self on of them

Try watching so vid posted here or youtube.

Ok, ill be serious for a second, On nose of Sup is good facing at your self, facing forward is crap.

But the best mounting position I have seen is on a quad chopper, thingy, even self tracking on some.


Oh and you are talking about filming your self in the surf I hope ???????

here's a front mount


Rear mount

Chest mount
Head is the same as chest only higher ;), i move the camera around while out and about to capture different footage angles and stich them altogether to make vids etc, in my opinion i prefer to use the front and rear board mounts the most, chest is annoying and so is the head mount.

A couple of my vids with front and rear board mounts (novice video maker, sorry if boring)

It is a good question. I couldn't decide this day so I used both. You can see how it is mounted in my mouth. DJ is the king of paddle-mounted Go Pro videos (and the king of video full-stop).

I use nose mount and paddle mount mostly. Examples below. Nose mount is really good except for having to crawl along the board to turn it on and off (a recent post discussed that the using the remote can be unreliable). Paddle mount is good as it allows so many angles, camera behind, or in front or filming friends. Easy to keep the lens clean and turn on and off. Does require a bit more concentration on paddle placement, DJ has this sussed. Fast paddling parts of footage need to be edited out as one looks like demented monkey swinging around a pole.
DJ seems to have his camera on the blade (probable discussed elsewhere as well), I use a bike post mount and it sits just above blade.
Have made a mouth mount from an old snorkel mouth piece that works really well but only used on prone surfing so far.

I prefer the Head Strap Mount

I am regular foot, so I position the cam on the corner of my face just ahead of my LEFT temple... aiming sharply down
it has the best position IMO, going front or backside (1st pic is in flat-water position)

6 pictures taken in the same position.... except the last one... I tilt the cam up when paddling out to shoot other people or waves

Aimed really down it will even pickup footwork.

I agree with STC.. Head mount is one of the best GoPro mount options IMO..

Not this mount.......one of my cameras got a board knock and snapped the actual camera housing mounts off
.....need something with a bit more give and take

I tried one similar to the first mount below, but it fell off in a big wave. That GoPro is at the bottom of Picnic Bay... The gap on the side is there to make it easy to get it on and off but it is a design flaw for our application. The second mount I just found looks great - we need one with the mount rotated 90 degrees. That would make it very slim and sleek and secure. I like the head-mount shots, but it isn't always ideal to have it on your head, and my mouth mount looks a bit dodgy. Someone thought it was a Hannibal Lecter mouth guard - see the third shot.

Paddle mount is the best. Headmount can also be used to put yourself into the picture. You can do both at the same time.

Here are pictures of my current set-up. Headmount modified with an additional GoPro base to attach GoPro to the back (which becomes the front). I stuff the GoPro into my Camelbak and carry it with me all the time.

I recently modified a paddle base mount (a PonoBill design) that weighs just 20 grams. Cut extra shaft in half then stick a GoPro base on it add Gorilla glue and tighten with fishing braid. Electrical tape to the shaft. This rig allows me to unclip from the headmount and then swap to the paddle mount in the ocean.

There is a tether of 100 lbs braid that I have threaded through the GoPro case (see 1st Photo). The tether goes AROUND THE SHAFT of the paddle. If the base breaks its all attached but would be dangling. This ideally provides the best of all worlds. Headmount for ease of use and low impact. Switch to paddle mount for best perspective.

I used to mount the Camera down on the blade (similar to DJ design) but you will find that the swing weight is ENORMOUS. This modified base sits further up the shaft lowerer swing weight considerably. This doesn't matter as much in smaller waves but as the waves get bigger you will not want to compromise the ability to catch waves so sliding the camera up the shaft helps significantly.

The video shows how you start on your head and then pull it off for a more interesting perspective.

This was a wave that started out mellow. I tried to film my neighbor but he fell. I then just enjoyed the ride but took it a little to far and got slammed into the sand in 6 inches of water, busted out my fin and popped up like a cat. Fortunately the fin box held (ProBox). Somehow I never let go of the camera or the paddle.

I do remember landing on my back but the pillow effect kept it pretty soft.

I found paddle mount looked like I was hanging on to pole & going up & down difficult to put paddle under chest as I ride a 7 6" & 6 8"" mutant & paddle best footage I have is with mouth peice

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herby60 said..
I found paddle mount looked like I was hanging on to pole & going up & down difficult to put paddle under chest as I ride a 7 6" & 6 8"" mutant & paddle best footage I have is with mouth peice

I feel the same way. If you are just cruising the wave then the paddle angle should be good - but I use my paddle a lot to turn, etc. and it kind of wrecks the video. If you had two GoPros then you could just grab the good bits from the paddle angle. You can get some great views from the end of the paddle on the right type of wave.

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The video shows how you start on your head and then pull it off for a more interesting perspective.

This was a wave that started out mellow. I tried to film my neighbor but he fell. I then just enjoyed the ride but took it a little to far and got slammed into the sand in 6 inches of water, busted out my fin and popped up like a cat. Fortunately the fin box held (ProBox). Somehow I never let go of the camera or the paddle.

I do remember landing on my back but the pillow effect kept it pretty soft.

I am curious - what are you wearing - it looks like you are on an arctic expedition! And what type of leg rope is that - in the still of the video image it looks like a rope on a large fishing swivel. Looked like a fun wave until the beach dropped in.

Most of the gopro footage on this vid is from mount on nose of board looking forward away from the paddler

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I am curious - what are you wearing - it looks like you are on an arctic expedition! And what type of leg rope is that - in the still of the video image it looks like a rope on a large fishing swivel. . . .

Camelbak and Waist leash.

After spending years thirsty after SUP'ing I finally took 2 ques from big wave mentor Ian Wallace who always wears 1) a waist leash and 2) a camelbak.

However my leashes were still breaking in big surf so I started to design my own using a 'thimble' to prevent pinching the polyurethane. I am happy to report ZERO breakages with this system (thick 9.5 mm cord). Here is a link to the design:

www.standupzone.com/forum/index.php/topic,18684.msg235427.html

With regards to GoPro angle I prefer putting the subject in the surf which the paddle mount does better than any other device. This video shows paddle mount angles (after 30 seconds):

Nice video - and some really nice waves! You certainly are able to make more of a movie (more interesting to watch) with the paddle-mount. I will have to give it a go.

I see that you have the tether attached to your waist. I think I read about that on the standupzone. I would like to try that too - it is so frustrating getting tangled in the legrope.

Nice video - thanks

awesome vid

Any general advice as to what resolution or aspect ratio to use with the Gopro for SUPing?

I'm 191cm tall and can't fit both my head and any of the board (for reference) in with it mounted on the front of my Mana 10.

I've had it set on 1080x30. It's a White edition Hero 3 so doesn't have the full gamut of settings. Will lower resolutions give a wider field of view?

Love all the posts and especially the videos. Inspiring stuff.

Thanks.

Welcome SUPunit

for widest/tallest field of view use the 960-30

to see the field of view look at my 1st pic above .... as you can see theres plenty of view above and below my head... if you include the camera, I'm your height

At 1080, you lose height

Also, you can tilt your camera up a bit and still get board action in 1080... just not as much

I have been shooting everything at 1080 x 30 fps.

2 Reasons:

1) Its good high resolution video for making great videos
2) The stills from the video can look spectacular (this was from Hero 3+, 4 is better yet)

The higher frame rate tend to produce darker images unless there is GREAT sunlight. The only reason to go higher frame rate is for slow motion. I have found that people tire of the slow motion effect and it takes up TOO much time in a video. Fast is where it is currently at. Here is a 1/30 second snapshot from a gloomy Easter surfing session.


And a day with better lighting:

Hey Beash...nice clear view of the Mavericks Comsat

Just cuz I vet everything.... I "Google Earthed" to see if it was indeed, a Comsat site, so I wouldn't mis-name it.
I saw something odd and zoomed it......

Freshly wrecked boat on your side of the point.... recent or old news?

Must have been one harrowing ride for the crew

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Freshly wrecked boat on your side of the point.... recent or old news?

Must have been one harrowing ride for the crew

Funny . . . . big brother. Checked my notes, that guy crashed on 10/13/2012:

"Ross - Shipwreck with Diesel everywhere, 1 wave then off to Mushroom with Mark and Corey."

I remembered cresting the hill and thinking they must have just tarred the roadway because of the smell. Then I come over and BAMMO shipwreck. I was pretty focused on surfing and paddled out. The gas/oil slick was just on the edge of the breaking waves. After the 1st wave I couldn't take the smell and high-tailed it out of there almost choking on the diesel fumes that settled into the cove.

The captain fell asleep returning to port and just slammed into the rocks. He then walked home. When I came out of the water this billy club was lying on the beach among the debris. I kept it as a souvenir. They proceeded to dismantle and haul off all the remains over the subsequent month.



My claim:

Thanks re settings. I'll give 960x30 a crack on the board mount and use 1080 on the paddle.

Don't want to hijack things so will Google stitching together different frame sizes.

Cheers and thanks for the welcome.

Long time kneelo finally learning to stand!

Has anyone tried a follow-me drone with an attached GoPro? Are they able to follow something that is waterproof (not a phone).

Thanks for the back story on that beasho... funny, I thought it was a new picture, because the shots of my region are like... yesterday

Pretty cool that you got his billy as a momento.... he's lucky... apparently he pulled that stunt when there wasn't a big swell.

can'tSe... I think the weak link there is battery time.
but this one might do it if you could progam it to take of on command and return to same spot when battery runs low.

hexoplus.com/

Pretty amazing! Now I just need a waterproof phone so it will follow me in the water - and a long life battery - and we will be good to go. As you say, it will need to go and land somewhere safe while I finish my surf. Or maybe it should fly somewhere, grab a new battery (or re-charge) and come back!