Category " Sports"

HI-POD continues the tour of all top football High School teams in Southern Florida. Here the Miramar Football team studies HI-POD footage from the X4 mobile unit. This was shot in practice only minutes before and now display on the Hi-Def screen inside the HI-POD Tournament Van.

Continuing the Southern Tour with the HI-POD Tournament Van, HI-POD met with the Players of the Northwestern HS team of Miami. The practice was shot with the Mobile HI-POD. This allowed for the HI-POD operator to move anywhere on the field that the coach wanted covered. Here all the players have come to watch some of the drills that they just performed as well as footage of their 7on7 scrimmage. This is all viewable on the High Def Screen in the HI-POD TOURNAMENT VAN

5/9/09 (Miami, FL) In preparation for HI-POD’s big tournament with US Soccer’s Development Academy in Sarasota FL later this month, HI-POD has been demonstrating the X4 and mobile HI-POD to some of Florida’s best High School Football teams. Starting with #1 Nationally Ranked St. Thomas Acquinas, HI-POD supervised the use and setup of the 31ft X4 endzone unit on the first day of spring practice.

In a warm up for next week season opener, the new franchise team for the WSL- the SOL- played the Real SoCAL boys premier team at the Home Depot Center. This was the first chance people had to see Brazil’s Marta. The 3 time World’s Best Female Player did not disappoint.
Because the practice game was played on a practice field and not inside the stadium, the only effective way to capture training footage of the match was with the HI-POD Core X4. Positioned on the half-line, the HI-POD captured footage from 31 feet- simulating stadium-like footage, without a stadium.

This past year (2008) Saint Thomas Aquinas HS Football program won the national championship title and ended up as the number one ranked team in the country. St. Thomas head coach, George Smith and staff went looking for an Endzone Camera system at this year’s American Football Coaches Convention. They settled on the HI-POD Core X4 system.

In addition to the 31 foot quadpod system, they liked the ability to convert to the mobile “line of Scrimmage” or “Huddle Camera” solution with a simple allen key. The mobile allows them the greatest flexibility, by giving the operator the ability to move at the end of every play, while still elevated. Now during practice we can get elevated shots of the different squads wherever they may be on the field.

In addition to the Camera products, the Saint Thomas Football team acquired the HI-PODCASTER. This streaming game server can be set up as a pay-per-view system that allows the team and school to generate revenue from people watching on the internet and even on their cell phones.