My GoPro is on a strap that goes around my helmet. The camera sits in front, not to the side. Unless I land face first, I’m not landing on the camera.
I don’t care one way or another about a helmet cam, I don’t get much out of them except to see what sort of jumps are on cross country courses I haven’t been to, but I think it does affect a helmet a bit. I think medical professionals will tell you millimeters and milligrams can make a difference – but for a little bit this way or that and you’re toast…so for that reason alone I’d be very careful about putting anything on my helmet other than a good fitting cover.
Don’t much care that they are outlawed either. Personally, they were a bit of a hassle in warmup at FHI. I always had to check to make sure anyone wearing one had permission from the ground jury, just another stupid little hand-holding I had to do for riders who had not read the rules, and did not realize you could not ride on an FEI course without permission with a camera afixed. Holding up start til we got the ground jury on the radio to approve…so for that reason alone, I’m for it. The less I have on the checklist the better.
I love watching others helmet cam videos, especially if I am considering going there.
I always wondered about that…
and then I wondered what was up at Holly Hill this weekend when I saw a sign that said “no helmet cams”
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You call yourself a scientist, yet you’re using data about ‘stupid phones’ to claim that ‘smart phones’ are dangerous.[/QUOTE]
Eh? (See, I put that in Canadian for you, hee) I mostly call myself a dork, my job calls me a scientist though. I meant ANY phone, I just re-read what I typed while trying to eat at the same time & saw how that read differently. The main point was that strapping a phone to your belt was not a great idea.
And the “stupid” part was referring to all phones, I should have said silly, I am perhaps biased by the giant list of work calls I have to return next week, ugh, and the last thing I want is a phone call while I’m riding. If I’m alone on a trail ride, my geriatric phone (it has buttons, gasp) is strapped in a padded case on my boot since one horse prefers to leave me for tigers to eat and runs away if i fall off.
Anyway, sorry for the mix-up. As you were.
My comment on testing was mostly because everyone seems to want to do testing for CYA purposes even if all the science says something should be fine, presumably because test results play better in a courtroom to prove you did your job properly than scientists do?
Though given other things we get warnings about, I am also surprised there haven’t been “screwing something to the helmet will void the warranty” stickers on helmet boxes - maybe so far equestrians haven’t been using screw on mounting enough for the company to decide they do need to warn people that really, they mean it when they say don’t do things to damage the helmet? We do often get warnings on products that seem like very obvious things.
Haven’t read the whole thread, but I was at a clinic this summer where a rider had a GoPro cam affixed to the center of their chest (IIRC with a harness of some sort)… Would that be legal? Seems unlikely that you would hit something chest first hard enough to punch through your safety vest… 
Jennifer
Camera can be mounted on helmet, on chest, on horse, on a whip…
I would like to know the “real” reason for the new ban?
Is there an official announcement by USEA anywhere?
How about other eq disciplines? I think there is a huge educational and entertainment element to using these small cameras and zero danger!
Why don’t the officials focus on penalizing riders on drugged or otherwise impaired horses instead?
PS: helmet cams are not screwed onto the helmet, they are held by elastic bands and it is not different from wearing a safety band on your arm!
Or a ridiculous layers of inflatable vests!!!
I went back to reread the beginings of this thread - there seems to be a false safety issue - with helmet mounted cams.
I do not like to expose this part of my life but as an underwater cave explorer I have been one of the pionneers of head cams in cave diving and have relied on and been grateful for the development of small body/helmet mounted cams.
The theory that they are dangerous and in the way is ridiculous. The cams are mounted by elastic bands and fall off in case of any serious helmet impact!!!
Same on a horse!!!
I’m going with some big shot rider with an ego the size of Texas was caught on helmet camera footage macking with somebody they shouldn’t have been. Or, somebody forgot to turn off their camera when participating in after XC extracurricular activities and the opposing party is pissed.
