Stand behind the ball. The hoop sits dead ahead, a few metres off and narrow as a letterbox. The mallet swings up into the bottom of the frame, the ball goes, and for a second you are not watching croquet, you are playing it.

Most clips of croquet you have ever watched are filmed from the boundary. The camera sits at the edge of the lawn, and it shows you where the balls are. What it cannot show you is what the player is looking at.

Watching from afar, a long clearance looks regulation. From behind the player's eyes, you notice just how small the hoop is.

Start with the obvious thrill. A jump shot, filmed side-on, is a small ball hopping over another through the hoop. Filmed from the striker's own eyes, it is the mallet driving down and the ball leaping through the hoop in front of your face,.

Addison Matthews has been showing off a new camera. One of Queensland's top Golf Croquet players, out of Laurel Bank in Toowoomba, he strapped a small camera to his hat and filmed his own play. Six of those clips are now on croquetvideos.com, and they are a look at what the game offers when you shoot it from the perspective of the player.

The most valuable of them plays less like a highlight and more like a lesson. In his longest clip Addison is giving advice as he plays, and the camera on his hat points exactly where his attention goes.

You see the angle he is reading from his own eyes before he plays it. You watch him settle on the area of the lawn he wants to open up, then take aim at the ball he is about to send to the far boundary, and you understand why because you are seeing the game as he sees it.

He puts it better than we could. A learner mentions studying a bit of croquet on YouTube to get better.

Get the right side of the ball, Addison explains, and you send your opponent into a wider area, stretching the distance they have to cover for a clearance. That calculation of angle is invisible from the edge of the lawn. From his eyes it can open up an entire new perspective on the game, narrated as it happens.

This is the idea CroquetWade put into words not long ago: a world-class player demonstrating the perfect shot from their point of view, on demand, available to anyone who wants to learn. It sounded like it would need a broadcast truck. It turns out it needs a small camera and a player willing to demonstrate. Our best players already know how to read a lawn, and now the rest of us can learn from their point of view.

The kit's purpose is to get the information in the heads of the people who play the game well out to people wanting to learn. Go and watch Addison's clips on croquetvideos.com and  see the lawn the way he does.