A New Perspective

     Whenever someone asks you what you want for your birthday, its a good idea to pick something you would love but never buy for yourself. For my 31st birthday, I found myself in just this position. My parents asked what I wanted and I responded "a Gopro camera, of course!" I have to admit, without being too much of a marketer, this little gadget has been a lot of fun.
     It takes pictures and video with the beloved and most orthodox lens in skateboarding, "the fish eye." It can also take a hit, so it's fun to put it as near to harms way as possible with a full knowledge that a broken case is probably the worst you can do. Unfortunately, I haven't taken it out with friends yet, but can't wait to get some good video of them soon enough. Who knows, if I'm lucky, I will get one of those cool shots where the camera gets kicked from a flip trick for being to close. So all that being said, here is some of the fun footage I've taken with it so far.

   Since I'm not selling this thing, the cons are real too. First, you look like an idiot when wearing it on your head, but it also gets really neat footage this way. Second, the name implies that you might suffer from the delusion that you are good at what you do. Fortunately for me, I'm used to looking like an dunce and haven't considered professional skateboarding an viable career option since I believed in the tooth fairy.