HeadCam action from Team Norway

See some of the top Norwegian stars running fast in French forest – including Holger Hott and Lars Skjeset – in this video from the Team Norway training camp in France the first week in October.

Starring Holger Hott, Lars Skjeset, Anders Nordberg, Audun Weltzien and Petter Thoresen. HeadCam runners Øystein Kristiansen and Ivar Haugen. Edited by Jan Kocbach. Music by UGRESS (ugress.com).

About

The HeadCam video is made using a HeadCam of type Contour Vholdr, which has replaced my previous Blackeye II as my favourite HeadCam. The main reason for the change to the Contour camera is that the Contour camera is just one unit on the head, whereas the Blackeye II consists of two parts – one which is carried on the back and one on the head. The Blackeye was slightly better to wear on the head, but you needed to carry a lot of extra stuff on your back, making it more complicated. The Contour camera has also significant better video quality. Another option would be the GoPro HeadCam series, which I have not tested personally, but which is said to be just as good as the Vholdr.

Note that in some of the previous HeadCam videos I have made, I have added a small map with synchronized runner position (see samples below). This makes it much easier to use HeadCam action as part of analysis, as you can get a direct comparison between video and map position.

More HeadCam action

Below is some more HeadCam action I have made with the Contour camera (the two first videos) and with the Blackeye II camera (the lower ones). Now I’m just longing to get injury-free and run with the camera on my own head… Coming up some time this winter is also a HeadCam video from the Norwegian Champs middle in great mountain terrain in Beitostølen – the location for O-festivalen 2012.