Cooling Vest Showdown! Best and Worst

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Published 2020-07-24
Comparing an evaporative vest, ice vests, an ice-water circulation vest, and an air vest. My insights into the challenges of vest based cooling.

I was not paid to promote these vests, but some were provided as samples. Amazon Associates links:
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#2 Thermapparel ice vest, wear under clothes: amzn.to/2ZXB8z9
#3 Old-school blue vest is no longer available
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#5 A Different Circulating Ice Water Vest: amzn.to/3aGHfQo
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All Comments (21)
  • @Mr1ssalinas
    You either put the fans backwards in the jacket, or the polarity is reversed, I can see how they're sucking air out of the jacket and they're not supposed to do that, but the opposite: Blow outside air into the jacket and your own perspiration will do the cooling.
  • @guigacaixetaf
    Thank you so much for sharing your experience with this richness of detail. Now I think I understand much better what I need
  • @bunberrier
    I am considering one for a brutal summer commute in full riding gear on my motorcycle. This was VERY helpful. Wonderful homestead you have there.
  • @gymnast8865
    Thank you so much. Your video was very helpful in finding a vest for someone with multiple sclerosis
  • I'm a lawnscraper in Dayton so I know heat and humidity. What I have found works best for me is a good wicking polyester shirt a wet bandana and a well ventilated bush hat. I recently started using the arm wraps that works well to.
  • @cloudyclo
    Thank you so much Spencer! I am buying the Hyperkewl evaporative vest in light of your review!
  • @jaichang4725
    Hey you’re definitely one of the funniest guys I’ve ever stumbled upon on YouTube! I’ve come to realize that I have a bit of heat intolerance, and started with traditional ice-packs, and now learning that theres so many options out there for cooling out and about, and found your video extremely helpful to figure things out. Thanks again, and hopefully I can help you get your $0.025 cents haha.
  • @ElBrodito
    What a great review man !!! Thanks 👍🏼
  • @rwind656
    Ty, excellent and helpful review.
  • @allencasey6981
    I'm sitting in my air conditioned house in Texas watching you in Michigan (?) trying to deal with the heat. Makes me smile. As long as you could keep wetting it, I bet that evaporative vest would work well in Arizona or New Mexico where the humidity is almost always low. Thanks for the off-beat, informative and very entertaining video, my friend.
  • I’ve got one like the first one you showed and I love it for riding bicycles or dirtbike‘s or anything in a dry climate. I do prefer to wear it over a shirt though or a jersey.
  • @joethompson297
    A wet buff and skull cap are simple and keeps me cool in the desert heat while mountain biking. I have an extra water bottle just for keeping those items wet.
  • @bappa8656
    great video honest straight forward!
  • @S79KW
    Good honest review many thanks for that - no marketing bullsh*t