Awesome Pov

A new era in live sports broadcasting arrives with GoPro and the NHL’s collaboration. Starting at the 2015 NHL All-Star games, players will wear GoPros, providing viewers with up close shots of the action. NFL and NBA are you watching?

Candide Thovex skis and somersaults his way down the slopes of Val Blanc, France in one of the best first-person videos we’ve ever seen. You don’t need music or flashy editing when you have someone this skilled at work.

YouTuber Lewis Knights shows off his luge cart run at the Skyline park in Queenstown, New Zealand. The park has a scenic track and an advanced track. We were waiting for one of the guys in front to start tossing banana peels.

Rubik’s Cube world record holder Feliks Zemdegs’ jaw-dropping feat filmed from his perspective. Watch as he solves the cube twice, with the second one at a mind-blowing 4.21s, including the time it took to stop the timer.

Skimming along the water in a super-fast H1 Unlimited Hydroplane is insane enough, but when something goes wrong, these turbine-powered speedboats can turn into unintended aircrafts, as demonstrated in this incredible POV video.

Bicyclist IggzDaLoc captured this first-person footage of an extraordinarily long wheelie he popped as he headed down a hill. Of course, with the music from Rocky playing, we were hoping he’d do a big flying jump at the end.

This clip from the skiing documentary Days of My Youth shows Cody Townsend going through a narrow and nearly vertical tunnel at the Tordrillo Mountains in Alaska. Powder Awards awarded him the Best Line of the year for his stunt.

Wingsuit expert Darren Burke takes us on a smooth, yet thrilling flight as he comes perilously close to the ground and treetops beneath him. We’d love to see this first hand, but don’t possess the balls to do it.

Moto trials freestyle veteran Julien Dupont turned Mexico’s famous wooden rollercoaster Montaña Rusa into his personal playground. Julien climbed up the track’s 108ft peak and performed two scary low backflips. More here.

YouTuber Viva Frei put his GoPro down to get a better view of a squirrel. The rodent seemed to be down for a photo shoot, but given its actions a few seconds later we think it was actually assessing the nuts-to-camera exchange rate.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) Filmmaker Ilya Naishuller – the man behind his band Biting Elbows’ first-person action videos – made the first full-length action movie that’s shot entirely from the point of view of the hero. Teaser at 3:58.

Thanks to its compact size and durability, you can mount a GoPro camera just about anywhere. Highvoltagefeathers decided to see what would happen if he attached one to the blade of a ceiling fan. Caution: May cause dizziness.

James C shares this video of wedding guests swigging from a bottle of Fireball cinnamon whiskey with a camera attached. If Edgar Wright made a wedding video it would probably look like this. But with more cuts and better music.

(NSFW: Lyrics, Gore) Owing more than a little credit to The Stampede, Logic’s dizzying first-person music video drops us right smack dab in the middle of a diamond heist gone wrong. Too bad they couldn’t shoot it without edits.

Get ready for a bumpy ride with this helmetcam video from motorcycle rider Ben Hemingway as he takes us through narrow corridors, up and down staircases, and over logs in the prologue of the Extreme XL de Lagares enduro race.

If you’ve ever wondered where those canisters at the bank go when you put them inside the pneumatic tube, you’re about to get a first-person view. Some folks put a GoPro inside a one and recorded its trip through the tube. Skip to 1:00.

(NSFW: Language) A luxurious version of the skydive to slip n’ slide. YouTuber John Van Horne and his buddy jumped from the top of the 1,099ft. Kuala Lumpur Tower and landed on the rooftop swimming pool of a nearby building.

The pilots wearing video goggles and their R/C drones equipped with cameras, these guys get to live out their dreams of stunt flying without the danger or cost of owning an actual airplane. Can you imagine flying these with an Oculus Rift?

YouTuber Christopher Schmidt was flying his quadcopter at Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts when a hawk spotted the drone and thought to itself, “Not in my house.” A one-hit kill followed.

The thrill-seeking hooligans known as On the Roofs went up to the top of a skyscraper in Hong Kong to take a pictures and make a massive shout out. We’re not sure if it’s staged or not, but either way it’s fun to watch.

…aka 99% of human activity vs. commercials. GoPro’s promo videos showcase thrill seekers and athletes. YouTuber Mike Fry compares those ads with how he uses his GoPro camera. Hey life, where’s our dubstep soundtrack huh?!

We’ve seen through the point of view of a model train. Now let’s check out what it’s like to be under a real train going at 75mph, courtesy of YouTuber BNSFME and his GoPro camera. Skip to 0:50 if you can’t stand the anticipation.

Unless you have the balls to wear a wingsuit, you may never get your wish to soar like an eagle. Here’s the next best thing – a video shot from the POV of a golden eagle as it flies over the Altai Mountains of Mongolia.