high school basketball with off camera flash help

[spazoid1965]

Are you gonna be taking photo during a practise session or during a game? Contact the schools prior to taking flash photos at a game. The last thing a player wants when he goes up for a rebound is to be temporarily blinded by a flash.

[evader]

I will be talking with the coach before hand and setting up the flash units at a practice to make sure they work properly.

There are newspaper photographers that shoot with on-camera flash at the high school games all the time while standing on the baseline practically right under the basketball while the players are shooting so I don't think there will be any issues with my units placed further away like they will be.

My only issue now is the fact that one of my umbrella's fell over the other day and the attachment arm on Cactus V2 trigger broke. So now I need to figure out how to fix it somehow so it will attach to the Gorillapod