Mounting GoPro type camera to mask

[AtlUmpSteve]

Originally Posted by bniu

Training purposes: umpires use it to study game situations that develop from a first person view, if they so choose to, it's mostly for liability.

Liability purposes: coach gets angry, coach hits umpire, parent comes on field and assaults umpire, basically all the situations where you wish you had a camera to record what actually happened instead of dealing with he-said, she-said. It's 2015, time to bring some technology into the game.

Technology is fine, but I'm wondering how it would work. Is your association also telling you to keep your mask on while talking to coaches or when parents come on the field?? Are you "pointing" your mask at coaches, not holding it at your side, as we typically do? Wouldn't that (pointing your mask to record an interaction) be perceived as an aggressive action on your part? Would you be watching the parent coming on the field, or might you expect that person to come up from your blind side, anyway? When you are "recording" a coach interaction with your base umpire, who is dealing with your responsibilities, maintaining control of other coaches? Even a momentary lapse in the recording would make it arguable that it missed a key factor in the interaction.

I'm not seeing how a mask mounted camera would be helpful in recording the situation. I get the idea, don't see it being practical. Just my opinion.