ContourHD on a Vforce Grill Paintball Mask

I play for the scenario paintball team Pub Crawling http://www.pubcrawling.org .   We travel all over the United States to play paintball and have traveled to Scotland and England for events.  One thing that we like to do is take a lot of pictures and videos of our events.  We really enjoy looking back and reliving our glory days, plus it never gets old looking at a picture of myself.  In order to make better on field videos and give a real point of view perspective a goggle mounted camera can really bring the game to life.

The ContourHD (and the new GPS version) is probably one of the best all around helmet cameras available.  It is low profile, lightweight, simple to use and it has great image quality. 

The Vforce Grill is a lightweight, super comfortable paintball mask with a quick change lens system that makes swapping lenses a simple procedure.

The problem is that the ContourHD does not have mounts that will work with goggles that do not have straps the full length of the side of a mask.  This makes mounting the camera problematic on goggles such as the Vforce Grill.  Until now.

Tools:
Scissors

Parts:
Old Bicycle inner tube
Vforce Grill Mask
ContourHD Camera
Contour Goggle Strap Mount

Step 1 Goggles and mounts

Here you can see how the mount works on a a pair of ski goggles.  Notice the arrow pointing up and how the goggle strap goes through the mount horizontally.  If your goggles don't have straps that go around to the side this mount won't work for you without modification.

The second picture shows the Vforce Grill. You can see that the strap actually connects into the back of the lens clip. While this makes the lens very secure and easy to change it means that the normal horizontal mount will not work. 

In order to mount the camera to the side of the goggles you will first need to remove the lens retainer clip.  The third picture shows just the retainer clip off from the mask.  There are very good instructions on how to remove this piece in this Instructable here .