Watching videos of yourself

lowbudgetjunk · Dec 20, 2015

My wife was watching a video of Hop Along Sami, so I could explain to her what wheel hop was. She got most of it, but brought up a question I never thought of. Do you like watching yourself? Are you narcissistic? I quickly got on the defensive and said, no I am critiquing my buggy and driving style....which makes me B & C.

Just wondering if any of you go back and see things that you would change to help your driving style, or if you just think you look good in the mirror.

Here is the video of the hopping that started it all.

https://youtu.be/HOj3oM6a6YY

zukimaster · Dec 20, 2015

Back when I was drag racing, I tried to video every pass, you can learn a lot my watching them.

NTIDWELL · Dec 20, 2015

Every race while racing I'm like dam I'm hauling ass **** yeah /. Get home watch video what the **** go you slow mother ****er. That's how my **** usually goes. Haha but it does help you learn to adjust shocks and where you need to improve driving style

Rockwells607 · Dec 20, 2015

I thought you meant home videos :cougar:

Jon Piper · Dec 20, 2015

zukimaster said:
Back when I was drag racing, I tried to video every pass, you can learn a lot my watching them.

Absolutely.

I actually hate seeing myself In a video, always a reminder fat boy needs to shed some lbs lol. But I can watch a video of the Sammy multiple times to help me figure out what's going on.

tonybolton · Dec 20, 2015

Re: Re: Watching videos of yourself

zukimaster said:
Back when I was drag racing, I tried to video every pass, you can learn a lot my watching them.

Agreed....not so much of off roading, but open track/auto crossing. Good for watching car placement and where your eyes are going...or need to go.

http://youtu.be/-zqoTBabh80

http://youtu.be/EhKtNZg29BY

pholmann · Dec 20, 2015

Tony is a narcissistic mofo. :rolf:

al1tonyota · Dec 20, 2015

I taught myself to drive from watching videos of TC, Wes, and a few others! I would watch their videos then watch mine and remember what it felt like and then could tell what I was doing wrong and how to go faster! Also the obvious tuning benefits for the suspension!

tonybolton · Dec 20, 2015

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pholmann said:
Tony is a narcissistic mofo.

Not a 4wheeling....I was always confident in myself with the mustang.....or track racing in general. 8)

blacksheep10 · Dec 20, 2015

I'm an attention whore, love vids of me doing dumb **** on wheels. I do analyze and critique anything I watch though. What to do different.

1tfrot · Dec 20, 2015

I always critique myself. usually it's wtf, why are you not going faster OR quit being a ***** and hit it harder :rolf:

Cole · Dec 21, 2015

I think it helps out a ton to go back and watch yourself. A lot of times I can't get every run uploaded but I will have people message me wanting to see their run and I will always go back and upload it just for them so they can study it. It helps with seeing how the buggy performs on different terrains and stuff. Also like Adam Lee said you can learn a lot by watching the guys who actually know what they are doing.

SB406 · Dec 21, 2015

Rockwells607 said:
I thought you meant home videos

NTIDWELL · Dec 21, 2015

Cole said:
I think it helps out a ton to go back and watch yourself. A lot of times I can't get every run uploaded but I will have people message me wanting to see their run and I will always go back and upload it just for them so they can study it. It helps with seeing how the buggy performs on different terrains and stuff. Also like Adam Lee said you can learn a lot by watching the guys who actually know what they are doing.

Bible :****: Thanks for all you do and seeing it at different angles really does help a lot

poolman · Dec 21, 2015

1tfrot said:
I always critique myself. usually it's wtf, why are you not going faster OR quit being a ***** and hit it harder

X2.

tonybolton · Dec 21, 2015

Re:

I also like your slow mo shots of the rigs. You can see a lot a **** doing weird stuff sometimes.

jcw992 · Jan 1, 2016

NTIDWELL said:
Every race while racing I'm like dam I'm hauling ass **** yeah /. Get home watch video what the **** go you slow mother ****er. That's how my **** usually goes. Haha but it does help you learn to adjust shocks and where you need to improve driving style

same here

KPatterson · Jan 2, 2016

I had a testimonial video done for my company. It was weird as hell having someone film me while I talk on camera :****:

Beerj · Jan 2, 2016

KPatterson said:
I had a testimonial video done for my company. It was weird as hell having someone film me while I talk on camera :****:

And now you know why porn stars get paid so much...

jeeptj99 · Jan 2, 2016

If I do something cool it's nice to see it. But that rarely happens. I have learned a lot watching the big dogs because about 3 years ago I realized that in south Tennessee you can't crawl everything and sometimes the only answer is to pretend you have a rock bouncer.