[leadin]If you need this jacket, you may want to rethink your upcoming expedition.[/leadin]
That’s because you’re preparing for 75 mile per hour impacts and then huddling in the fetal position (two exceptional features of the jacket). But the Condition Black jacket is still one of the more interesting apparel designs to hit the market in a long time with some very unique elements.
The Condition Black jacket by Vollebak is designed for some crazy abuse, the kind of abuse that may incapacitate the user, thus requiring the built-in life-saving features. The brand says it’s made for backcountry skiing, speed-riding, downhill mountain biking, or other high-speed sports.
We hope you don’t need to survive too many high speed crashes or all-night fetal huddles, but for those who do, this just might be the right jacket for your extreme endeavors.
Condition Black Survival Jacket
This jacket has 19 “ceraspace and Nanosphere” panels designed to withstand impacts up to 75 miles per hour. The ceraspace/Nanosphere combination — an armor made of 3D ceramic particles set in a flexible skin — covers likely impact points, and may reduce the injuries caused by crashes.
“So the Survival Pockets are based on the principle that when you’re cold, exhausted and in hostile conditions, with an urgent need to conserve energy and stay warm, the simplest way to insulate your vital organs is by getting into a fetal position – forearms crossed over your chest, with your knees tucked up. This reduces the total surface area of your body that’s exposed to cold, and also protects your armpits, groin and chest – areas which produce and lose the most heat.
The two Survival Pockets on the Condition Black Jacket help you get into this position and, crucially, stay in it when you can barely think straight. There’s one on either side of your upper chest to slide your hands into. Both pockets fasten magnetically, which means they’ll only open when you want them to. They’re double-lined for warmth. And they’re also color coded to minimize thinking: the glow-in-the-dark instructions written on the left forearm line up with the white bar tab on the right pocket.”