Learned a great lesson today. Don't put your keys in your front pocket when you're rocking in the park.
Hit a massive jump at Abasin, landed it, but crashed when I tried to go from switch to regular to hit the rail and landed straight on my keys that were in my pocket. Can barely walk now and have a MASSIVE bruise on my right quad.
So I ask, where do you put your keys when you ride to keep this from happening?
Um I keep them in my snowboard pant pockets. Since falling on the quad on that side (which is on the "side" and not in front of my quad) is very very rare in the occurrence I try a pipe jib to slide off it and land perfectly on that area. Hard to envision that happening. Not saying it can't just, low chance.
I've had worst. Put my cable lock that is 5/16 thick in my chest pocket, didn't think I'd hit that, bad move. Few years back front foot magically came out of my binding (god knows how) and went down chest first as it was the first thing to hit. Knock the wind out of me and had pain for well over a month internally, felt weird. Nothing on the sensitive outer portion of my body was hurt, like you would feel if a muscle was sore from lifting and could poke it feeling the muscles ripped up. Yet if I tried jumping or hopping, it the pain would throb as if it were dangling on its life line and kept my ass planted from going out till it healed up.
It depends on where i am riding. But most of the time i will toss them in a locker with the rest of my shit. But if i do ride with them on me, i will put them in a zip pocket in the inside of my jacket or something.
Here's what you need. PIck up the Neff goggle strap pocket. Put your car key that unlocks your door in there. That's all you need. Personally I ride with more crap in my front pockets. Cell, ipod, wallet, keys, chap stick, and whatever else I think I can fit in there.
My jacket has a pocket that I think is supposed to be for a pass. It is a clear pocket which velcros down and is inside another zipper pocket. There is no chance my keys will come out of there.
In a locker or in the handwarmer pocket of my coat.
Made the mistake last month of keeping my wallet, keys, and camera in my inside chest pocket. Did a face plant, landed right on my chest. Knocked the wind out of me and bruised my ribs. I've broken ribs before but this pain was unreal. Couldn't sleep well for almost 3 weeks and it's just getting better.
I never would have thought that landing on my keys (they're the huge rectangal keys with the alarm buttons on em) would hurt so bad. My whole right leg is swollen up and I can barely put any weight on it. I can walk, but I'm limping. I'm gona be pissed if I can't ride on Sat.
I think I'm going to put the keys in my side jacket pocket from now on. I can't ever remember landing on my side, so it should be safe...I hope.
hahahahaha all you fancy people with your plastic and electronics on keys. my keys are quite simply small, flat, and all metal. round for the door, square for the ignition.
There are worse things that can happen to your keys by choosing the wrong pocket: like say back in 2004 in Quebec, a friend and first-time snowboarder who happened to be the driver for said trip loses his keys. This happenned on NEW YEARS EVE!!! We were stuck at our hotel in a small town in the eastern townships of Quebec... and a $250 express-post from back home later, we were back on our way.
Tip: if riding with newbies who are the driver... MAKE SURE they keep their keys in a good spot, or better yet, keep them yourself!
my Mtn Hardware Shell has an inner pocket on the inside left chest with zipper. I put all of my stuff in there generally, keys, credit card and if im drinking my ID.
I generally bring my cell along with me as well...i put that in one of my regular coat pockets zipped up.
My new Analog pants have a lot of pockets though, so i started moving my keys and stuff to the lower pockets which are lower on the leg and would be hard to land on.
Either way though even if im not crashing i still pat myself down to make sure everythings there after each run lol...
I'm just going to swallow the car key and eat a ton of fiber. That way when it's time to go home, I'll just run to the toilet and crap my key out. No way they'll get in the way of park riding now! I wonder if stomach acid eats through plastic?
I already do that. My key has the keyfob integrated into the key...Sort of like the newer VW keys do. The key to my car is 2.5 inches long, 1.25 inches wide and 1/2 inch tall.
My snowboard pants have a pocket on the inside of the lower leg. Perfect place to put things.
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