My cornering (and straight lines, and stopping, and going) is terrible, largely I think this stems from a few things I can't fix and one or two I can.
I really need to practice cornering and specifically I think my position on the bike. Difficulty is assessing what I did right/wrong without something to look back at. It occurs to me this is exactly what speed cameras were designed for, all be it for cars.
Would a WiFi enabled trail cam be a good idea or some tripod type thing for a phone/action cam maybe?
Trail cam is tempting as I can imagine still being in place after a run or two, phone or decent action cam I can forsee making it's way off route very shortly after I'm out of sight and pedaling back up to the top of the (short) section of trail I have in mind.
Anyone any suggestions for a trail cam?
Go to a skills coach. A lot will video you to show you what you are doing wrong, coupled with advice on what to do right
Action cam or phone (suitably camouflaged) would probably make more sense.
Whilst high end trail cams have better video nowadays they also have to include the night vision and other gubbins and hence will cost more comparitively.
trail cams are likely PIR triggered, so your movement is detected, and THEN it wakes up the camera, waits for a warm up process and takes the video. all of which will take a second or maybe two. I would guess you would miss most of the shots.
one of my Home security cameras is PIR triggered, but it has a feature where its always recording, so when it is triggered, it already has the preceding 10 second saved.
better to buy a cheap action camera and just set it running as you push back up the trail?
Or even just get an old phone handset you have in a drawer somewhere?
Been there and done that, and it's great, but it's the practice (of that advice) I need at this point.
"bend your knees, lean forward, don't brake etc etc" is all well and good but I need to actually get into the habit of doing that.
A skills coach for a couple of hours a week for several weeks* after work isn't really an option and I'm too old to pickup and retain new habits in a day so I revert to type when there's no one to pick me up on it and given I've not got the habit I'm not sure, without some info one way or the other, if I'm doing what I've been told or not. (looking at a few photos from the weekend, I wasn't, but I'd swear I was, but the not entirely knowing what my arms and legs are doing all the time is one of the things I can't fix)
*or more, more likely.
(sorry the last was in reply to Tom, dissonance and olly posted before I refreshed the page!)
I hadn't thought about the camera lag on a trail cam. That's probably a decider in itself.
Spikey tripod thing it is!
Filming yourself in that way reminds me of Uncle Rico
Your uncle's not a good shot is he? I've been watching that feed for ten minutes now and he's not hit the target once, from about 10 yards.