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Powder Skiing with Red Weapon + Movi Pro

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Daniel Kelly Brown

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Finally manned up and took my Red Weapon MoVI pro setup into the powder yesterday. I have been skiing with the gimbal for awhile now on groomers. Been training hard in hopes to bring it into the powder successfully. Stoked it all worked out!

https://vimeo.com/255432405


If you need any gimbal pow ski shots for your productions I would be very happy to help you out!

Cheers!
 
Daniel,

it looks like your training paid off big time! really smooth movement with great colors!
 
Daniel,

Absolutely sick! Well done :) I'd be interested in talking about your training regimen as I'd like to practice doing something similar when I get back to a place that has snow. You keen to talk about your experiences and lessons learned? Would really appreciate any time you could make for me.
 
Great work! Good you push it so far.

Did you use the ring or the bar?
Do you have a picture of your setup?
Did you have a backpack?
 
Very nice! Congrats!

Would also be interested in knowing your setup to bring the movi on the mountain. Backpack?
 
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Stoked you all enjoy!

@Ryan and @Dominic I basically do a bunch of cross training to help increase my physical strength. I spend a ton of time bouldering, indoors mainly, this one sport has really really helped with the gimbal because it trains core, back, biceps mainly. If you cant get to the climbing gym (or even if you can) start cranking out pull-ups like its your job! I cant tell you how many pullups I have done in my life, but its a very huge number:) At one point I could do 29 fo them in a row. Now I do pullups with my huge camera bag on my back to train. Most every week I go for a few 2-3 mile runs, hike a few times a week, skin up the mountains around where I live, stationary bike in winter and mtn/road bikes in summer, rowing machine, swim. I try and hit the weights a few days a week, squats and bench press are key for increasing general strength.

For metal training, hand eye coordination and spacial awareness training I play a few games of call of duty almost every day. You might think this is silly but I assure you it is not... I have always played video games throughout my entire life and I am convinced they have helped me SO much with my filming career. Finding buttons on the camera, remembering what they do, knowing where you are in your physical space in relation to the subject being shot/filmed, video games help cultivate all this so well. Not to mention if you fly drones the controls for call of duty and many other games out there are identical to the drone with the exception of upward momentum on drone bing forward momentum in COD.

But after all said and done the best form of practice is actually doing the thing your trying to get good at. Go out and ski with the gimbal on groomers first and ease into harder terrain over time.

As far as getting the gimbal around the mountain here are some tips-
1) Don't bring poles- they just get in the way
2) Get some of these hand out mittens so you can operate the touch screen without taking your glove off.
3) Its very helpful to have an assistant while filming skiing with the gimbal. Especially because its challenging to carry both skis and gimbal at same time.
4) If you not going far before you start to film on the resort get some of these elastic ties and use them to lock down the gimbal for transportation when your not using it. Like so:

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5) If you are traveling far with the gimbal before you start skiing or get on the lift then I would recommend brining a backpack. Take the camera off the gimbal and put it inside the pack and strap the gimbal to the outside of the pack
6) The gimbal ring is essential in my opinion, not just for skiing, but for gimbal work in general. The only time you might not want to use the ring is if you need to get that 3inches lower to the ground for a shot.
7) Get the RT Motion latitude and thumb wheel. Pretty key to have focus and record on the handle of the gimbal and the ability to control focus on canon AF lenses saves you a bunch of weight. RT motion gear is so awesome, very stoked for their zoom rocker to come out soon.

Hope that all helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
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Nicely shot but must be painfully heavy without proper suport. Why not use something like the amor man, I done hours skateboarding around with that thing. And I´m sure I could do the same on a snowboard. I know not most peoples first option but I got half a life on snowboards and have not been on skis sense I was a little kid.
 
I have the ready rig support system. It works ok for groomers, still better to not use it IMO. Skiing pow with it would be deadly. You need to be able to ditch the gimbal if you are about to go down in a major way. Having the rig strapped to yourself would not be safe. I can kinda see skateboarding with it because your mainly on flat surfaces. Would you want to film long boards going down hill with the armorman rig? I doubt it, unless you have a death wish:) - Plus its nice to be able to put the thing down in between takes.

Björn Benckert said:
]14045642_10154046353988043_4546621637784449239_n by Björn Benckert, on Flickr


Nicely shot but must be painfully heavy without proper suport. Why not use something like the amor man, I done hours skateboarding around with that thing. And I´m sure I could do the same on a snowboard. I know not most peoples first option but I got half a life on snowboards and have not been on skis sense I was a little kid.
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Daniel Kelly Brown said:
I have the ready rig support system. It works ok for groomers, still better to not use it IMO. Skiing pow with it would be deadly. You need to be able to ditch the gimbal if you are about to go down in a major way. Having the rig strapped to yourself would not be safe. I can kinda see skateboarding with it because your mainly on flat surfaces. Would you want to film long boards going down hill with the armorman rig? I doubt it, unless you have a death wish:) - Plus its nice to be able to put the thing down in between takes.
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Armorman has different kinds of arms. The first generation has handles which you strap onto your underarms and then you hold the gimbal as normal. Basically it gives you additional lift strength but you just hold the gimbal as normal. I would not be too worried to crash hard wearing it minus the gimbal which you can let go of.
 
Awesome Daniel. Appreciate the tips! Would be rad if you could post a pic of your setup with the RT Motion latitude and thumb wheel attached.
 
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