Gopro Athlete Tips And Tricks - Helmet mounting and gopro app with tom wallisch - Ep 5

Yo, what's up. Tom Wallisch here, professional freestyle skier, GoPro Athlete, and today I'm going to be showing you some sweet Tricks and Tips for mounting your GoPro on your helmet. Now when you're skiing, everybody is wearing a helmet nowadays and it's essential to get those sick GoPro shots of what kind of action you're doing out there. And for me, I love just the simplest, low profile sticky mount. Now when you're mounting this one, it's essential to find the best place on your helmet. You want the most contact points between the sticky mount and your helmet. I've found that the best place for that is roughly two inches above the edge of your helmet line, nice and centered, right in the middle, looking straight in front. Now what you're going to want to do is make sure your helmet is nice and clean. You want to take a rag and clean it off, make sure there's no grime or dirt or anything on there, make sure it's nice and clean. And then you're going to be mounting the sticky on there. So normally you'd want to do this inside, in a nice room temperature environment and allow it around 24 hours to set up to really have a secure mount. It's really essential to have it centered, you know not looking one way or another, to really get the best shot. So you'll see maybe two inches up, you really center it, really focus on what you're doing, kind of wait, look at it, and when you finally find that spot, make sure you push down really firmly. You're going to want to push all over the thing, get each edge of that really pushed on there, as tight as you can. The more secure that is, the better luck you're going to have having that mount stay on and getting the best shots. So now as soon as you have your mount all set up right where you want it, next thing you want to do is you want to get the GoPro on there. For me, when I'm skiing, I put two anti-fog strips here at the base of the camera. That's just going to help to make sure you're always getting a good shot, you're not having the camera fog up. Once you've got those in there, the camera's all set up, you've got your mounting all set up, and you're going to kind of just attach the camera on there. And then from there, once you've got the camera on your helmet, the best way for me and the way I like to frame my shots to make sure I'm getting the right shot, and what settings I want to use, I love to use the GoPro App. So, easy as that, you pull out your phone, and using the app, you can easily go on. Without looking at the camera, you can take a look using the app to see a live preview of what the shot looks like, where the camera is angled, how you want to adjust your angle, choose settings. Every time in between runs on the ski hill you can take a look. As soon as I dial in the kind of angle I'm looking for, make sure to tighten that down, nice and tight so the camera is not moving while your skiing, bumping down the run, you can put your phone away then. You've got your shot dialed, maybe buckle your helmet, get ready to go. And you're ready to go ski down the hill and get some shots. So easy as that, putting on the camera, mounting it low-profile on your helmet. I'm Tom Wallisch and thanks again for watching GoPro Tricks and Tips. Get out there and try it yourself.