{"id":4142,"date":"2018-11-23T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/widezine.net\/teste\/?p=90"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:51:50","slug":"when-the-cameraman-run-as-fast-as-the-best-sprinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/news\/when-the-cameraman-run-as-fast-as-the-best-sprinters\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Cameraman run as fast as the best sprinters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Live side views of sprinters are usually shot using remote cameras on rails. But if you have a cameraman that\u2019s as fit and fast as the athletes themselves, you can ditch the high-tech equipment and use just a gimbal stabilizer instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A clip from the 2016 Reebok Crossfit Games has been going viral online this week. It shows how ultra-fit cameraman Marston Sawyers ran alongside the competitors during the Suicide Sprint, keeping up with the top runners and keeping them in the frame while holding a heavy stabilized camera rig with one hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s the shot Sawyers captured next to the footage of him sprinting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mat Fraser sprint event CrossFit Games 2016\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AL4c1HH98Hk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI started doing CrossFit media back in 2010 at a sectional event in Utah that @brookeence was competing at,\u201d Sawyers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpCw6vhnN_C\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">writes<\/a>\u00a0after parting ways with CrossFit last month. \u201cI was there to show support for my girlfriend but also try and get footy of her competing. Somehow I was introduced to @hebercannon \u2013 CrossFit\u2019s first field producer. I ended up assisting Heber throughout that weekend and in return he put me in contact with the higher ups at HQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith that said I\u2019m more confident than ever in my abilities as a filmmaker\/storyteller. CrossFit forced me to take on projects that seemed very daunting at first but very rewarding in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find more of Sawyers\u2019 work on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marzmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">his Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live side views of sprinters are usually shot using remote cameras on rails. But if you have a cameraman that\u2019s as fit and fast as the athletes themselves, you can ditch the high-tech equipment and use just a gimbal stabilizer instead. A clip from the 2016 Reebok Crossfit Games has been going viral online this [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[151,175,365],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cameraman","tag-crossfit","tag-sprinters"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widezine.net\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}