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This video was featured on the home page of Gizmodo.com, news.discovery.com, digitalcinemafoundry.com, and Pharrell's blog bit.ly/9phwKl

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I filmed my friend David wiping out in extremely choppy horrible storm waves on his skimboard. I attached a GoPro HD Hero to a broom pole and we had a fun (yet freezing) time throwing the thing around!

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Tom Hackbarth 2 years ago

cool stuff
Alex 8 months ago

Very cool! I've added it to goproheroes.com
William Wilkinson 2 years ago

I really love the shots when the monopod is thrown.
Michael Brodner AKA Bones 2 years ago

totally cool.
Jack Toohey 2 years ago

dude that is mad. I love the shot where he chucks the camera and it is spiraling away from him! So mad!
Teddy Hoffman 2 years ago

great work Patrick again! What setting did you shoot it in? also did you color correct it at all in post? Also curious about how you worked with the clips in Final Cut if thats what you used, and what settings you compressed it for vimeo?
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

Thanks man! I shot it in 720 60p and conformed it to 24p to make it slo-mo.
I did minor color correcting in post to crush the blacks a bit.

I had to use compressor to convert everything to XDCAM so I could edit the files in FCP
Zachary Flynn 2 years ago

What Converter did you use?

Cheers Zach
GoPro 2 years ago

That looks like a pro music video...very well done. Impressed. Yep...
Kai Rilliet 2 years ago

what tripod did you use? cuz its obviously one that handles the elements...
sick video.
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

it's not a tripod it's the pole taken off a mop with the GoPro HD clamped onto it! HAHA
Vlad Shevel 2 years ago

fun )
Daniel Hayek 2 years ago

Sweet perspective!
Matt West 2 years ago

Cool idea, can you do it again with someone that is good at skimbording, you could get some way cool shots.
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

Well this guy is really good at skimboarding, these waves are just almost un-skimmable and choppy and horrible. We just wanted to go out into a storm and see if it was possible to do.
Matt West 2 years ago

yeah right, fair call, he seemed to bail as soon as he mounted it nearly every time, got any vids of him ripping, i'd be keen to check em out.
Matt West 2 years ago

dude, I watched it again.
I musta been in a critical mood, it's a RAd vid!
Especially when he is paddling, funny.
Marcelo Reis 2 years ago

cool! really good
Lucasberg (Joey) 2 years ago

Sweet video.
Alex Henery 2 years ago

amazing
Roma Michel 2 years ago

that's fun!
Dustin 2 years ago

Love the slow-mo shots. Great stuff.
Joe Popp 2 years ago

That monopod looks like a swiffer handle! Great video!
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

IT IS A SWIFFER HANDLE! haha
Joe Popp 2 years ago

I like your video even more now!
Trevor Sion 2 years ago

where is this?
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

Pismo Beach California
Trevor Sion 2 years ago

i KNEW i recognized those railings in the shot up on the cliff. sometimes my family stays in the Cliffs hotel in shell beach. i hope you went to the splash cafe for clam chowder while you were there :D
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

Haha yea it was right by the cliffs hotel! The cliffs backyard patio area is where the really high up establishing shot was.
Tsering 2 years ago

i'd be better if i were in a good weather i suppose.
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

Yea these waves were impossible to skim
Jesse Tobler 2 years ago

The mono pod tossing is so awesome.
Chris Davis 2 years ago

Did you use something on the glass to help it stay clear after it got wet?
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

No for some reason the water just runs right off it. Sometimes obviously big drops of water got on it, but I just blew on it a couple of times and everything came off. Keep in mind the glass part is smaller than a penny.
Cielosurf 1 year ago

gopro = pure win
PointOfViewCameras 2 years ago

Nice work you guys! Riding and editing. What camera did you use?
Patrick Barrett 2 years ago

its the GoPro HD
The Duluth Scene 2 years ago

Go Pro HD + Swiffer Handle = Awesome.
Cielosurf 1 year ago

exactly
Grant D Cook 2 years ago

where are you located? and what video editor are you using to do the color effects?
Love the vid
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

I am currently located in San Francisco California. Color effects are done with Final Cut Pro 3-way color corrector. I barely color corrected this at all. I just crushed the blacks a bit.
Curtis Redden 2 years ago

its a shame he's not a better skimmer. . . . .
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

He is. The weather and waves were just absolutely horrible.
Phil Shoebottom 2 years ago

lol, so cool
FuelSurf 2 years ago

super original
Jst 2 years ago

dananananaykroyd!
Rami Katzav 2 years ago

Amazing looking footage
TERMALMETAL 2 years ago

Not bad,not bad. :D
Northshoresurfphotos.com J.T Gra 2 years ago

very cool! i love my gopro. check out some of my footage with it
Dourado 2 years ago

jaaaaa cool stuff!
Offscreen Productions 2 years ago

i cant stop watching this.
gustavOknievel 2 years ago

love it! what song is?
ITD FILMS (Stephen Dodsworth) 2 years ago

dude i love the feel of this. makes me wanna go run around in the water like when i was a kid, and didnt have a care in the world! thanks for posting.
Constantin Gabor 2 years ago

Great shooting and wicked editing. What editing software do you use?
Nathan Rodger 2 years ago

Just up above Patrick mentions he edited in Final Cut Studio :)
Casper20vt 1 year ago

Is Final Cut easy to use?

Casper20vt, Denmark
roberto lazarte 2 years ago

haha look who I found here, pretty clean stuff man. Congrats.
Alexander Mainusch 2 years ago

Fi
Hans Kellner 2 years ago

Great video. Cool shots and nice editing.
Ilya Stone 2 years ago

What's the music?
Garrett Fidalgo 2 years ago

Pink Sabbath by Dananananaykroyd. Fun band.
Grant Sorbo 2 years ago

awesome stuff!
IGO 2 years ago

That Rocks! Nice Job.
Katherine Brennan 2 years ago

omg. you're laugh. yes. please. thanks.
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

hehehehe
umcosta 2 years ago

Just Amazing!
Any kind of smoothcam/deshacker in post?
mato.be 2 years ago

....super HD
Belvedere Stories 2 years ago

Great work, loved it!
Thomas Valente 2 years ago

LOVED the funny concept behind it all. And loved the ending!! good stuff!!!
keith kendall 2 years ago

Sweet video. Love the Swifter handle!!
Douwe Sibma 2 years ago

awesome stuff
Sam Ebertz 2 years ago

Great camera, great idea, great execution. Awesome video, inspired me to go pick up a GoPro HD, and maybe a couple broom handles too! Keep it up!
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

It's seriously the best HD video camera for the price! It's incredible!
Geoff A Charters 2 years ago

Oh man you totally rock! That was awesome. I have to get one now. Picture quality was excellent. Favourite part is you at the end swearing your head off. Me and the kids were cracking up big time at that. SWEET!
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

Haha thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
steve nelson 2 years ago

Nice work mounting the camera on the boom, gives a very cool perspective.
C J Turner 2 years ago

amazing! ive been looking at getting one of these little go pro hd's because Im way too scared to take my camera out in crappy conditions and it could lend its self to some really artsy stuff. I wanted to try out the slow mo like you done drawing out the 60 to 24. From looking at your video it seems to capture movement quite nicely.
BWALL 2 years ago

Sickest video! I don't understand how you guys just threw the camera around? Crazy!
Sansom Media 2 years ago

these cameras are pretty fun to play with. i like the perspective of the pole when you're throwing it around. on a side note, can't say i'd do anything in that water. great job.
Ethan Pringle 2 years ago

Is that up in arcata at moonstone beach?
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

no it's in pismo beach california
Ryan Coster 2 years ago

Totally awesome.
Casper Boom 2 years ago

Hei dude, I have a GoPro HD HERO to. But i have a problem with adobe premiere pro, so i have to convert it first. And how you earlier told, that you converted it to XDCAM. What program did you use? Because i see you haven't lost quality in your wicked edit! Can you please tell me what you exactly do, before you edit a clip?

PS i really like when you trow with the camera in the edit! Nice shots.:)
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

I don't really know anything about premiere, I just used compressor, an application that's part of final cut studio, to compress all my files.
Matt West 2 years ago

Matt likes this
Casper Boom 2 years ago

Thanks dude, i think that is all i needed to know.:)
Ryan Mertins 2 years ago

This video is awesome. Great camerawork, awesome music, sick weather. I skim in the summer so this vid just gets me absolutely amped for that.
Supreme Video Productions 2 years ago

great stuff.. the water looks cold
Trevor Leyenhorst 2 years ago

wow, this is great pov stuff. it's such a weird sensation when the camera is handed off, because i am so stationary in my seat here at home and everything else seems to be swirling around, yet it is really the other way around...

this is more of an experience than a video.
Matthew Sitachitt 2 years ago

This video was awesome dude. By the way who is the song by?
Maria Nasif 2 years ago

Great feel. Me go drink hot chocolate now.
GoPro 2 years ago

Check your bad self out on Discovery News:
news.discovery.com/earth/awesome-skimboarding-video-makes-monster-storms-fun.html
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

I JUST SAW! OMG! I'm so excited!
Isaiah Neeld ☃ 2 years ago

that is awesome.. congrats on the exposure.. finally got to shoot with one this past week. ordering one on Monday. hope to have some stuff up soon.
Emilio Ponce 2 years ago

Nice!
you are going to be famous boys, congrats!
keyframe 2 years ago

amazing and inspiring!!!! love your work man
dean fry 2 years ago

Can you please allow downloading, I would love to watch this on my HDTV. great video
Ahsan Arshad 2 years ago

Super Cool !
Ethan Knight 2 years ago

Hi mate, Have you done any special post work to 2:01 scene. ?
Cause it just looks so sorrel..
Almost looks like CG affect
Patrick Lawler 2 years ago

at 2:01 where he falls in the water? There was absolutley no CG in the video, the ONLY things I did to this video in post was edit it, and crush the blacks with apple's 3-way color corrector, that's all I did.