Leaping, grappling, climbing, hoisting and vaulting. Freerunning requires all of these and that’s just for beginners. Sounds hard already right? Now imagine trying to do it with a camera rig or restrictive GoPro set up on your person. This is the kind of problem that Freerunning enthusiasts across the world are facing in their efforts to share their craft or simply record footage for self review.

Thanks to the development of camera drones that follow you autonomously, we could soon have the solution. While commercial GoPro drones from the likes of DJI or Parrot have been used to record urban movement for some time now, they have been limited by the factor of requiring at
least one person to operate the drone and often two if camera is to be properly controlled. The new auto following quadcopters don’t need operation beyond their launch and configuration, meaning Freerunners are one step closer to recording awesome unbroken Hollywood esque Freerunning sequences without spending ridiculous sums of time and money on setting up a camera dolly rail or coordinating professional drone videographers.

We cannot wait to see how the already creative Freerunning community manages to do with this development. Given the WiFi and GPS functionality of some aerial drones and cameras, it might be only a matter of time before we can tune into a live stream Freerunning experience, followingour favourite runners carving new awe inspiring paths through our urban locales; live and unedited. And this is only one of the many possibilities for the marriage of a match made in heaven between camera drone and Freerunner, two phenomenon that are all about creativity and exploring the limits of what is possible.

Thanks to drones Australia could be seeing its cities from a fresh adrenaline packed perspective very soon.