I'm as cheap as it gets but the safety of myself/ski is somewhere where I feel I shouldn't try to cut costs.
I'm going to try and make something similar to a brapstrap. But as I look at everything I'll need, 100 bucks really isn't all that terrible of a price.
I broke the regular blowsion hood straps easily. Those were complete crap. Now I have two regualr ratchet straps, 24/7 hooks, and an Xmetal catch with teh stock latch. I don't think my hoods going anywhere unless I take a really hard slam flat on my side. Only problem is that it's a pain to take on and off because if you seperate the strap from the ratchet you have to refeed it and everything, therefore I have to loosen the straps and put them to the side to remove the hood
The wamilton's set-up looks really nice though too....hmmmm