Free Goods Friday: Billabong

May 4

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Billabong FGF Ticker

It’s the end of the work/school week… not only does that mean the weekend is within reach, but we have more snowboard gear up for grabs. In this week’s Free Goods Friday we are giving you the chance to stay cozy in a brand new Billabong puffy. It’s bright orange color reminds us of life preservers, traffic cones, life vests, Cheetos and well… other things that might save your life. So to run with this theme we want to know how you would use this jacket to save your life. In the comment section below tell us how you would use this Billabong down jacket to save your life if you were stranded in the woods. We will pick our favorite answer to get the goods. BE CREATIVE!

Contest ends 5/11/12

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  • http://cadaverkrew.blogspot.com Brandon

    I’d use that puppy to warm up at night and to flag down choppers in the daytime.

  • Matt

    I would deconstruct the whole jacket. I’d start a fire with the drawstrings. The filling would be used to feed the fire, which would be used to melt pine wax onto the bottom of a wide dead fall I’d saw apart with the zippers(so many zippers!). The strings would be tied on the plank to make “freestyle” bindings. I’d take the sleeves and fashion some 80′s leg warmers. The hood would be worn backwards with a slit cut for the eyes. I’d use a pocket to polish the wax on the bottom of my “REALLY all mountain board”. And finally, I’d still wear the torso, cause orange is a bitchin’ colour on the hills. I’d then thrash down the mountain to safety, (but not before hitting some sweet jibs to get on the cover of a SBM back-country feature)

  • http://www.snowboardingexplained.com.au Alex

    Well first of all I’m not an idiot and I would not be lost in the backcountry alone. Gotta trust the buddy system! Anyway I would offer up the nice warm down jacket to my companion. Lull him into a deep sleep and then cut him open like a wampa on hoth, crawl myself inside and survive off his innards. The bright orange color would then flag down searchers and helicopters who would save me and be told my friend died of natural causes. They would probably say something like, its only been 4 hours and it isn’t even cold inside. Thats when I would take them out and position their bodies into something like a donkey show gone wrong, start a fire in the helicopter and walk the 50 feet back to the beginner skier trail and grab a beer… Or at least thats what I would tell anyone asking me how I got lost on the beginner trail, smart ass.

  • Chili

    this jacket would allow me to keep warm while poopin. I could cover my knees up in negative degree weather and not have to go constipated.

  • Yoshi

    If I was lost in the woods with this jacket, I wait around till Big Foot found me and then I would eat the bastard! Once I have eating his sweet ass I would ride his skeleton down the mountain wearing his fluffy skin as a suit with the steezy Billabong puffy on the outside, hopefully not getting shot before I get to the bottom!

  • Kevin

    I would smear some mud on it so it was camouflage and i could get a big deer to cook on a fire, and have lots of energy to get out of there alive!

  • brian hollis

    Id cut it up and eat it bit by bit slowly as I try to find a reindeer to fly me back home

  • LF

    As I’m wandering lost in the backcountry, scared, and alone, I happen upon a strange looking goose. The goose seems to be crying, in a goosey sort of way, and as I approach the goose, I realize he has no feathers. After a conversation with the goose, I’m informed that he was born without feathers, and all of his goose comrades have abandoned him, to die alone in the woods. Well…. this is of course not ok with me. In an unselfish act of heroism and compassion, I tear open my down jacket and use some tree sap to adhere the feathers to the sad genetically-unfortunate goose. The goose admires his new coat, and after a quick proud strut, and some thankful squawks, he flys off into the sky.

    Now I’ve accepted that I will probably die in these woods without the warm down to keep me safe. I wander for a couple of hours as the cold sets in, and find a nice tree-well to curl up in and have my last sleep. I’m at deaths door. As a warm feeling comes over me…I’m startled by what sounds like a bunch of car honking. Only it’s not cars, it’s Theodore! (as I’ve named my mutant goose friend), and 50 of his goose buddies. The fashion a rudimentary net with their goose feet, and place me into it.

    With some heavy effort, they collectively fly me to safety, and drop me in the parking lot of a Red Robin. After a long teary goodbye to my goose posse, I drag myself into the Red Robin, where I warm up, and enjoy a marginal burger… but the fries are unlimited, and that’s a real life saver.

  • chadro

    I’d use it when not trying to keep warm as a flagger for any flying aircraft that Might pass by, the colour should attract the eye and hopefully i would be more than a survivor it they notice. I’d be Rescued with a capital ‘R’, yay me!

  • newbrough

    i would stuff the sleeves of the jacket with pine cones and leaves. then, i would use sticks and pieces of my shoe laces to attach the sleeves to my arms, giving me the appearance of having four arms. this would undoubtably make me seem god-like to the smaller woodland creatures. i would leverage this misconception to move myself into a leadership position. the forest mammals and i would form an alliance with the birds. with our greater numbers, we would finally be able to challenge the bears, the true masters of the forest, for supreme control. once we have humbled the bears, we will welcome them back into our forest utopia. i will continue to rule as emporer of the forest for a few more years until deciding to welcome a democracy. finally, i will retire and move to a nice meadow near a stream and act in more of a diplomatic role with the outside world.

  • Tyler

    First of all If I was stranded in the woods, I know I would survive if I had a Billabong Down Jacket because not only would it keep me warm but it would attract all other things that love billabong and they would take me back to immediate safety. But hypothetically speaking, if I was in a deserted area with no life, The Billabong jacket would give me super powers to find life and it would also give me food until I was able to make it back home. This entire situation is very unrealistic because everyone knows that when you wear the Billabong Down Jacket your way too awesome to ever get stranded in the woods so this entire situation is compromised due to a faulty situation.

  • Josh Zeller

    Well, I’d most likely be stranded in the woods because of a snowboarding accident. Next thing I know I’m stuck in the wilderness. All I have is my billabong puffy and the goods in my pack. I don’t need to worry bout warmth anymore for this jacket has already started saving my life! I would use this jacket by staying flashy and bright and maybe someone would see me soon enough because it definitely stands out! I’d flag anything in can down and be rescued <3

  • Kevin Nolan

    Assuming I just sent an 1000 foot cliff and broke both my legs, I would use the jacket as a sled to get down the rest of the mountain, saving my life but also probebly ripping some sweet pow. I would probebly take a few more laps, just because of the pure awesomeness of this jacket. Then, because of its color, a helicopter would be able to spot me from space (it’s a space helicopter) and I would take a bunch of killer space powder laps, all while slaying aliens with pure style and in effect saving the universe from gapers.

  • welcome…

    I’m only briefly lost in the backcountry with my puffy jacket on, but then a helicopter sees me because it’s bring orange. The Helicopter brings me to some island where scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino’ blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber. While a rich guy who paid for the scientists is showing off his dinosaur ‘theme park’ to a selected fancy rich group of people and myself wearing my puffy jacket, a nerdy IT guy played by NEWMAN disables the security system so that he can make his escape with some stolen dino eggs. This enables all the dinosaurs to escape their enclosures.

    Well, long story short, a guy is eaten off of a porta-potty, some velcoraptors learn to open doors and ride dirt bikes, and when the T-Rex comes around, I’m sleeping in my toasty jacket not moving, and a t rex can only see you if you’re moving, so he eats everyone else. Next thing I know I’m on a helicopter with Jeff Goldblum flying to safety.

  • Rodrick

    First of all I think newbrough should get the jacket because that dudes answer is probably the best piece of literature ive read in ages. Actually disregard that I want the jacket1 that thing looks sick!
    So, If i were lost with said jacket I realy wouldnt care because i would look like a bad ass. Hopefully Ullr (if you dont know who he is google him) would see my bad assery and roll up and invite me to his dope ass mead hall where we would spend all night rocking out as only resort rats can and talking about hitting rails and pow lines. So, when I go back to being a resort rat this winter, I get lost, and dont get saved by a mythical bad ass because someone didnt hook me up with a sweet coat and Ifreeze to death. Well, thats on your concience! Think about it.

  • Max Doman

    well since its orange, Id become the wily-est hunter out there… indulging in feasts of snowbunnies… thats how’d I’d live

  • Cody Clark

    I would wear it to keep warm. If im in the woods its for 1 of 2 things

    1:taking a shit
    2:fighting grizzlies

    and I dont see any toilet paper…

  • Jesse Gutierrez

    I would climb the biggest tree around and wave this bright ass jacket to every plane I saw!

  • Stefan Runarsson

    i would wear it then i wont get cold and then i wont die.. solid plan!

  • Lovro Voglar

    I’d just stand there dressed up as Kenny from South Park, because he always has Cartman, Kyle and Stan somewhere near him

  • nick

    Let’s cut the crap, I’d just use the jacket to stay warm.

  • Kathy Hanley

    I would climb the biggest tree that I could find and wave it tied to the end of the biggest branch I could find. If that didn’t work, then I would wrap myself in it with the hood on, hands up the sleeves and zipped tight and would find the most secure place I could find and then I would call for help on my cell phone and have them bring me a Starbucks Mocha Cappuccino to cool me off since I would be toasty warm!

  • Niall

    Wear it like its intended?

  • pijus k

    i would wrap a baby deer in it to keep it warm

  • Nathan jones

    First, I’d make contact with the local bigfoot population… I’d become one of them. I’d introduce them to snowboarding, and tell them about their roots in it (Travis Rice is a distant cousin of these large primates). Adaptation is the first law of nature (er… maybe the 4th, I dunno). After establishing myself with the bigfeet, I’d tell them that this jacket has magical powers that pass down from generation to generation (think C3PO when he becomes a god to the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi). This would established dominance over said bigfeet, and I would become their king. I would have a sick bigfoot pad, with lady bigfeet in bikinis serving me grapes on plates and giving me massages. The male bigfeet would kill me one elk, two rabbits, and 5 fish a day. I would also teach them how to brew beer. In the end, it would be a huge shitshow of drunken bigfeet, banging on logs, howling, fucking with campers, making guest appearances on shitty cell phone Youtube videos, etc. And when it was time to leave, I’d put my Billabong jacket back on and casually stroll out like Jason Statham in a B-rate car driving movie.

  • http://www.mystylespot.blogspot.com cindy b

    I’d wear it to stay warm! duh! lol :)

  • Charles

    First I would set up the jacket on a stick built dummy to scare woodland creatures in my direction where i would be hidden high in the bows of an epic tree. There I would wait, feeding on the smaller animals who were scared in my direction by the orange jacket scarecrow. I wait…until a scared bull moose gallops under my tree. Then I would jump down on his back, harnass him by the antlers and ride him majestically through the forest. First I would ride over to aquire the heroic jacket, wear it proudly with my chest exposed and then ride on to freedom!

  • https://twitter.com/JimmyDaugherty James D

    I would make a flight suit with it, drink my last Red Bull, then fly the fuck outta dodge because I can’t miss New Girl. That chick is a babe.

  • Smeagel

    I WANTS it, i NEEDS it! My preciousssss!
    i’d raps it on me to keep it warm and safe.
    Dirty hobbitses want to steal it from usss!

  • Natasha

    I would use it as a sleeping bag since it’s so puffy and warm inside. It would also be good for scaring the bears and animals away with it’s bright color; I can wear it and pretend I’m fire to burn those around me

  • Dave Viravec

    I’d probably sell it so some local and buy myself a bus ticket back home! But only after I have worn it for a few runs!!!

  • Allan Planes

    Lock and load… all systems go for take off.I can assist in an airplane landing or takeoff. just radical.

  • http://Gh Ben Williams

    Id use the puffy as a make shift parachute and glide my way down ro safety all while doin backflips.

  • Richard Menzies

    I would wear it while fly fishing in the deep valleys of Whistler’s rivers. Looking up at the beautiful melting mountain tops thinking about how lucky I am to live here and how fortunate we are that the snow comes back every winter so we can shred!

  • http://Www.supermodular.com Wim

    Super,I really like the jacket … but unable to find it on the Internet, even not on the billabong site??? So please tell me where to find it in the woods so that I can survive!

  • Didzis

    I actually got stuck in the woods this winter after riding a perfect powdery pillow line. Unfortunately my phone had died, meaning I couldn’t call anyone to tell where I am and call for help. This fluffy down jacket would have helped me greatly, because after the sun went down it got really cold and it would be easier for someone to spot me. Fortunately, after several exhausting hours of climbing and riding down some frozen waterfalls, I managed to get out to a road before I had to start collecting firewood to keep me warm.

  • http://tentenworms@blogspot.com Emma Swabey

    This jacket would serve as a my fishing net. Catch fish and eat em raw. More nutrients that way, I saw it on the telly.

  • Trae

    I would make a snowboard out of a tree, then when i snowboard with this jacket, everyone would think I’m pro with this jacket, then they would save me.

  • emay

    I’d be wearing it all day to look good even in the woods!

  • http://Ieat@theVikingDriveInBoise,ID Julie Jambam Moore

    Nothing says caution like an orange puffy jacket! If I won that jacket, I’d lose myself in the woods to show Billabong that down was all I needed.
    Yes please.
    I love it.
    I promise I will wear it proudly.

  • Bordin Gordon

    First I would rip the bottom inch off the left sleeve and use it as a headband because everyone who is about to get hard core survivor style needs a sweet orange headband. I would then rip the whole right sleeve off and use it as a nice puffy pillow so I could rest comfortably while I call my friends from the call phone I have stashed in the audio pocket of the jacket. Ripping the right sleeve off has double purpose because now I would have an exposed right arm and in case I was approached by a wild animal while I waited for my friends to find me I could flex at them… everyone knows wild animals are scared of huge biceps!

  • garry keddy

    I would start scaring all the animals in the forest and then singing the ghost busters theme song so when they show up thinking the staypuff marshmellow man had sex with the cheetos cheetah I would pull down the hood and yell yah you saved me. and go home happy

  • PJ

    I would use this as a beacon when stuck in waist deep pow

  • Dale

    I’d climb to the tip top of the tallest tree around and jump off using the jacket as a parachute. I’d then get clear of the trees and parachute snowboard down the mountain to safety doing ssx style tricks all the way.

  • Matt

    [Disclaimer: Star Wars reference] Well…. let’s face it, this jacket would only keep you warm for so long. Eventually, I would do as Han solo and cut open my Tauntaun (the weird kangaroo/horse thing) and sleep inside of it, using the organs to keep me warm. However, this jacket would certainly provide full insulation, covering the hole I just cut with my lightsaber.

  • Bailey

    If I was stranded in the woods, I would use this billabong jacket to slide down a giant hill to safety. I would put it on the ground, jump on, then face first slide down the hill making creepy penguin noises. When I got to the bottom, i would hold on to one sleeve and swing on the other to get to the other side of the river of orange soda. Then i would flag for help and when help came i would just chill with the jacket and normally wear it :)

  • Stewart Fisher

    I just got dropped out off a heli at the top of this amazing powder run, as I am makings way down I hit a log out of nowhere. Stumbling in to a massive tree well, were a family of chipmunks live. We start taking my jacket apart first making a fire to melt some snow to drink. Next took the extra material and made wings with the help of their bird friends, I was able to fly up and out of the tree well. Out of the woods down to the bottom of the mountain when my wing rips. Doing a backflip just in time to safe myself from a broken neck. Making it to the biotin just as night falls over the mountain. Everyone has been wondering where I have been for the entire day. hold on after a cold beer.

  • Mario

    I would put this jacket on, stand on top of the tallest tree around and flair around like an SOS flag…Weeeee

  • Adrain

    I put a phone in this rad jacket and call Bear Grylls and tell him to look out for the ranga!

  • Mattie P

    If I were traped in the back country my wife would certainly be with me (she loves adventure) . In a time of certain peril I wouldn’t use the jacket to save myself but I would certainly give it to her to ensure survival. Down for warmth and orange for visibility. She is cetain to be found!

  • John Cannon

    i would rip the outside of roll it up take it and strangle a rabbit so i could get food than i would take the insihlation inside of it to make a fire to cook my rabbit so i coould eat food than i would take my cell phone and call my mom to come pick me up.

  • kyle federmann

    well, while stranded in the woods you could come across a lot of different things. And you ask, what would this amazing jacket do to save me? It would fend off a pack of lions, fight some of the fiercest flaming ninjas (yes they are on fire), and finally force attacking sumo-wrestlers to “tap-out”. But after it survives the easy attacks, it will attract others with the bright orange and it will keep me warm when I am cold to help me survive the fiercest weather… And THAT my friends, is what a Billabong Puffy jacket would do for me!

  • Nick

    id have to use some wood bark to draw a Big Superman ‘S’ on the back, take the jacket off, put the hood on my head and run around like Superman then take off an land in a Safe place… oh wait, im not 8 anymore, im guessing this dont work like it used to in my head??

  • Tom Matravers

    Well it’s a billabong jacket, how couldn’t it save your life!!!!!!!

  • Kyle

    Blow it up and use it like a floatation device or dinghy

  • Amos

    I would walk towards whatever woods dick cheney hunts in. Surely he would see the orange jacket and “accidentally” shoot me, but he’s a bad shot so hopefully it would just be a flesh would. Then he and his hunting party would bring me back to safety, and hopefully a hospital.

  • scott peach

    well a jacket that poofy, id just curl up in a ball inside of it. then jump in a lake an go down stream till i find people. that thing looks like it would be a tank as a floating device, air plane companys are now giving them out as floatation devices to replace the useless ones that are now being recycled as blow up dolls lol

  • Matt H

    I would put it on and wear it as a jacket. Thus preventing me from freezing to death out in the wilderness.

  • Matt

    Climb the tallest tree and tie it to the top. Nobody is going to miss that thing.

  • nick

    i would just wear this jacket out of the situation. no burning it,no tearing apart i would jus walk my ass out of the woods with it on.the jacket would keep me warm and the homies would be looking for me so the orange would make it easy to see.case closed

  • Fitzy

    Lost in the back country of Thredbo. i take off my snowboard and wander around as i look for a way to get back. I stumble across a rare orange mother wombat instantly i get on all fours and stagger towards it. Confusing me for its children she brings me into her burrow were we watch the rugby on its huge plasma TV. I’m then sent to wombat school as my wombat mother nags me to the school bus still camofaging in with my orange jacket. after a few years i have sat my HSC and need a job into the real world. now my plan concludes as my mother points me in the way to Thredbo again so i can make money for the family being the Thredbo mascot. i work for Thredbo and send half my paycheck back to my family. THAT IS HOW I WILL USE MY JACKET TO SAVE MY LIFE

  • Sara

    If I was falling some deep hollow down (maybe in the backcountry), I wouldn’t hurt at all cause the jacket is fluffier than the air bags of your moms car.

  • Brian

    while wearing the billabong down jacket i would climb to the top of the tallest tree and start pop locking until the helicopters came to save me

  • Dan

    I would burn it for warmth, cooking and smoke signals.

  • Alex

    When stranded in the woods, there is no doubt that the priority would be to establish oneself as a demagogue to the native population with pure style. The only way to achieve this is to have the freshest threads in the land; i.e. the Billabong down jacket. I would save myself by redefining sexy to all the tribal smoke shows, and soon enough water, food, warmth, and shelter will all be provided and and I’ll be stomping the yard with the wisest chiefs in the forest. Didn’t even have to dream up the next coolest fishing pole or put on a pair of pants, style and grace.

  • mikey

    I would use it to fight off bears…then wear it on my head like a glorious mane…then use it to fetch water and then as a floatation device to swim to safety!!!

  • Mikeyy

    i would wave it around until someone sees it since its a really bright orange, i would climb up a tree and wave it around for planes or helicopters. If that doesnt work i would burn it for fire to stay warm and also for the smoke signals.

  • Max Worhatch

    Being a commercial fisherman and a snowboarder, this jacket would remain on my back at all times. Nothing is a more dangerous killer in the cold than hypothermia and this jacket would be my external layer of protection.

  • CJ O’Connor

    I wouldn’t get stranded in the woods because if I had this jacket I would make sure I was around as many people as possible in order to show it off and let everyone know where I got it.

  • Trevor M

    Being stranded int he woods can be scary. However, I would gain the trust and friendship of the local bears by offering them this stylish, yet practical, jacket. In return, they would feed me and welcome me as one of their own. Goodbye family!

  • ian f

    how would that sick jacket keep me alive well id use it to hold all my snowboarder mags and sit till a pack of wolfs come and then id lash them together using the hear on my back and use them as a dog sled team. simple as that! yes im that bad ass.. thanks for asking.

  • Kumayl Rashid

    I would wear the jacket as usual to keep myself warm, and take advantage of the orange colour by dancing around to make myself a human signalling device!! And when I get tired and need to rest, I would use the jacket as a makeshift down sleeping bag… then wake up, and get back to the dancing!!!!

  • http://n/a Cam

    use jacket sleeves to tie around your ankles when it’s early morning, and walk in the grass to get dew on the sleeves, then suck the moisture out of the fabric. tastes like survival

  • Edmund

    How would i use the jacket? if I were stranded in the ‘snowy’ woods of ‘a mountain’, i’d use the jacket’s colour, cause its orange. oranges are tangy, as well as some steak. we use knives to cut steaks. i’d get the knife and cut some wood, make a snowboard and ride out of there to save my life. thats how.

  • http://www.facebook.com/scallywag52 Eric Kuest

    If I was to be stuck in the forrest wearing this jacket i would use it to my advantage with it’s color .First i would use it to keep warm at night and during the day when I would go to find a nice open range and collect some logs up to spell out (SOS)and an arrow pointing where I was located and at that point i could use it to keep warm while i find a nice spot higher above to block wind and start a fire and to lay by that fire spread apart so that they visual could see me.survival 101 with the billabong life saving outdoor jacket.

  • Jermy

    I don’t know what to do with my hands..

  • Lachy Mac

    I already have a man rug to keep me warm in the form of a hairy chest so the jacket would be of no use to me for warmth! I’d use the Billabong jacket to lure bears in my area towards my camp. I’d jump them with the chord out of the hoody and then use their meat to keep me fed whilst I fashion rope out of vines by using the bears claws as knives. Next I would use these ropes to create a parachute out of the Jacket and jump off the nearest cliff ‘bear grylls’ style (butt naked) as everyone knows you go down to get rescued. I come across a lake, civilisation is on the other side. Using the bear claws and finding random drift wood from the surrounding beaches I am able to fashion a raft complete with a sail…you guessed it…made from the Billabong Puffy. Puff goes the wind and I take off from the shore towards to the comforts of civilisation. Thankyou Mr Billabong Puffy

  • Jace Bullington

    This jacket would kill around here, the Pacific Northwest, because we have cold wet, all year round weather. I would use the jacket to keep my alive, warm, and visible. I’d pack like ten beers in that biatch cause it looks like it has some great pocket size. Yeahh this jacket is epic

  • andrew galena

    i would use it for warmth overnight. then in the morning, i would start a fire and climb a tree tie the orange jacket to the top so people could see it and i would get rescued.

  • alex

    first protection overnight and in the morining i would put the orange jacket to the top of a tree so people could see it …

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