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Keeping your hood down when riding switch

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Burrito
Posts: 1864 - Karma: 930
For those of us that don't have magnets built in to our $500 Oakley jackets, having your hood fly up in your face sucks.  I tried a safety pin, but it ripped out on a wreck.  My plan right now is to super glue magnets or small tabs of velcro on the back of the hood and jacket.

What have you guys come up with to fix this?
Jan 28 2008 10:06PM
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slopestyle4331
Posts: 1301 - Karma: 42
my sessions jacker that i got of sac for 70 dollas has magnets
Jan 28 2008 10:08PM
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bobs
Posts: 4801 - Karma: 869
i've never had a problem with orage masters hoods because they're all oversized.  I can't see it being too hard to sew a magnet in though
Jan 28 2008 10:10PM
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MiniMeDanny
Posts: 1737 - Karma: 2,312
ya thhis has happend to me and my friends a bunch, one thing that kinda works is turning your hood inside out, otherwise if you really get desperate just tuck your hood in, it'll prolly look gay but it might be worth it
Jan 28 2008 10:19PM
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Burrito
Posts: 1864 - Karma: 930
My Orage always flies up unless I have the jacket zipped up all the way.
Jan 28 2008 10:33PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
Buy an Oakley jacket.
Jan 28 2008 11:04PM
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chazz.
Posts: 2721 - Karma: 23

haha i was gonna say that i never have a problem with my hood, until i realized that i have an oakley jacket....

Jan 28 2008 11:08PM
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televback1
Posts: 386 - Karma: 11
stupid question but wat is sac and where can u acess the stuff
Jan 28 2008 11:08PM
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Sir_SkrillALot
Posts: 1732 - Karma: 632
dont ask questions, thats some Code level 102 info right there.
Jan 28 2008 11:20PM
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scratchproteen
Posts: 5173 - Karma: 286

my jacket also.

Jan 28 2008 11:28PM
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bret
Posts: 2845 - Karma: 833
turn your shoulders more when you ride switch. the same wind that flaps your hood up will flop it right back down.
Jan 28 2008 11:33PM
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Alex_thedroog
Posts: 3433 - Karma: 2
my hood never comes up. its weird
Jan 28 2008 11:33PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
mine doesnt have any magnets or shit but it stays down all the time...
Jan 28 2008 11:35PM
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fouldsys
Posts: 7404 - Karma: 39
i wear a hoodie under my jacket so the weight from the extra hood keeps mine down most of the time
Jan 28 2008 11:36PM
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A_Whelan
Posts: 882 - Karma: 17
PFFT... looking where your riding when going switch is overplayed, ride blind or don't ride at all.
-aaron
Jan 28 2008 11:38PM
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SushiMan
Posts: 1269 - Karma: 424
if you have those elastic draw strings to tighten around your hood, you can pull those down so its pretty much closed, thats what i do an it works well and when its dumping you wont get snow in your hood or when you wreck
Jan 28 2008 11:40PM
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uni-corn
Posts: 13846 - Karma: 651
**CORRECTION..... Code level 732
Jan 28 2008 11:42PM
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Sticha03
Posts: 224 - Karma: 9
If you dont EVER use or intend to use your hood, you could go the permenant route. Jump on the sewing maching and lay in a stitch about a cm long back and fourth a couple times, sewing your hood tp your jacket... Although you wouldnt be able to sell it for much after that though.
Jan 28 2008 11:46PM
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Burrito
Posts: 1864 - Karma: 930
I actually use my hood when I wear my jacket for non-skiing purposes.  I walk to work, and it snows about five days a week in Buffalo.
Jan 28 2008 11:50PM
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Sticha03
Posts: 224 - Karma: 9
Well, guess my ideas out...
Jan 28 2008 11:51PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
Jea!
Jan 28 2008 11:52PM
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RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25443 - Karma: 13,844
Buy six small coin shaped magnets. Place three in the hood, and then stick them to the other three inside your jacket. Easy, removable, switch-hood protection.
Jan 28 2008 11:53PM
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Burrito
Posts: 1864 - Karma: 930
I actually was on the JoAnn Fabrics website and saw them.  Yeah, I know, I'm gay for going to the JoAnn Fabrics website, but piss off.  How many times in your life do you get to use the phrase "JoAnn Fabrics website,"  the world's strangest oxymoron, three times in one paragraph?
Jan 28 2008 11:58PM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71

keep a six pack of sam adams winter lager in your hood at all times. you can drink it on the lifts, and if your hood does eventually fly up when u finish the beers, hey, im kinda buzzed, fuck this hood.

Jan 29 2008 12:42AM
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Burrito
Posts: 1864 - Karma: 930
I guess my trusty flask of Jim would work, too.
Jan 29 2008 12:50AM
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upthebrackette
Posts: 162 - Karma: 12
I usually use a hand and flail at the hood until it goes back down. I'm too lazy to put time into making something to keep it down
Jan 29 2008 12:52AM
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Milton_skis
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^ I hear that!

Jan 29 2008 1:07AM
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[Toby]
Posts: 766 - Karma: 10
just duc tape magnets on each side, it wont fall off and wont destroy the jacket.
Jan 29 2008 1:24AM
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B-Haag
Posts: 1767 - Karma: 38
word im with bobs
Jan 29 2008 7:12AM
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drwclrk
Posts: 1114 - Karma: 718
wordd...eye sight is overrated
Jan 29 2008 8:19AM
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jibsworth
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duct tape on your jacket is so ghetto.
Jan 29 2008 8:25AM
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dave44
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have the same problem with my siver jacket. doesnt bother me when im looking over my left shoulder, but when i turn to look over my right its there and i cant see a thing
Jan 29 2008 9:07AM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71
maybe its because youre not an ambiturner
Jan 29 2008 11:28AM
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Love_Wins.
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BAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Nicely played sir.
Jan 29 2008 1:50PM
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abek
Posts: 1255 - Karma: 1,587
look online for some tiny rare-earth magnets or whatever.  They are small, you can by like 20 at a time for 5 bucks and just pop 3 on the inside of teh jacket and 3 on the inside of the hood and BAM they are stuck together for good. ish.
Jan 29 2008 4:13PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
never had this problem before. i have no magnets or anything in my jacket. maybe you are gay or something?
Jan 29 2008 4:33PM
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Lineskiah11
Posts: 2029 - Karma: 21
yeah ive never had a problem having my hood come up with my jacket fully zipped or not.

i think i would try sewing some magnets on though underneath a little patch so you wont notice it
Jan 29 2008 4:53PM
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lyndon
Posts: 7266 - Karma: 127
Ive never had that problem with my orage jacket, unlike my Siver. Heres why.

Most jackets have a cardboard insert in the hood, much like the beak of a baseball hat. I guess this weighs it down enough because its never happened with my Orage Conner, but its happened with my Siver Vulture shell(like a wind breaker- no beak thing)
Jan 29 2008 5:28PM
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iSkiAz
Posts: 404 - Karma: 37
just ride switch with it up.. way more baller not seein were ya goin
Jan 29 2008 5:41PM
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Dr_Feelgood
Posts: 1176 - Karma: 15
the safety pin is still working for me. try MULTIPLE safety pins. that would look mad sick too.
Jan 29 2008 5:56PM
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deezy.
Posts: 2538 - Karma: 26
i put it over my helmet/hat
Jan 29 2008 6:01PM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71
im surprised no one has suggested to do that yet. wow
Jan 29 2008 6:06PM
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MiniMeDanny
Posts: 1737 - Karma: 2,312
yea but then it comes down and starts flopping around again
Jan 29 2008 9:52PM
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Bodeau.
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hahahahahhahah lololol    Nice
Jan 29 2008 10:03PM
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skiizy
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see, you guys both need to get your facts straight, code level 312-B subsection 5C
Jan 29 2008 10:08PM
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upthebrackette
Posts: 162 - Karma: 12
whenever i do that it makes it a lot harder to see behind me the hood always ends up covering up an eye almost completely and theres no peripheral at all
Jan 30 2008 12:17PM
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skithedirt
Posts: 1759 - Karma: 382
the only time my hood flys up is when i land switch off a good sized jump but other than that riding switch it never comes up and i have a burton jacket
Jan 30 2008 12:22PM
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Sharko
Posts: 2274 - Karma: 4,101
Yes, in fact so many jackets have cardboard in the hood that I have no idea what you are talking about.
Jan 30 2008 12:23PM
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skithedirt
Posts: 1759 - Karma: 382
i believe foursquare has the most jackets like this they have like a cardboard of plastic bill on the top of the hood...... thus resullting in a heavier hodd that stays down and a little cute bill when u put it up
Jan 30 2008 12:29PM
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skiP.E.I.
Posts: 7604 - Karma: 20,092
I don't have problems with teh hood on my Bonfire coat blowing in my face, and I don't have magnets. Most coats have detachable hoods, so couldn't you just take it off for riding switch?
Jan 30 2008 1:20PM
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Jared.
Posts: 1465 - Karma: 59
this hasn't really been a problem for me except for the other day...i was riding in to a jump, pop switch and look over my left shoulder and my hood is in the way..not too much of a problem...so i just take my right hand and move it over...but as i am doing this i go over a little ice chunk...catch an edge and fuck up my speed and can't hit the jump...i was so pissed i broke my pole..now i am thinkin off doin the magnet thing
Feb 17 2008 9:52PM
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