Forcefield Pro Shirt for overlanding - anyone?

[ridetheworld]

Hi all,

I saw one of these today when picking up a new helmet. Having recently fell off and come away with a fractured shoulder, I am all of a sudden very safety conscious and have a new awareness of the limitations of the human skeleton.

My jacket is nothing fancy and just came with pretty standard armor, though I did install a decent third-party backplate. Sometimes I think with cheaper touring jackets, etc, it seems the armor can move around a bit, I certainly found this with knee protectors, so much so that they were often rendered useless by twisting around my leg (bought a set of velcro kneepads - which are great). I was thinking about ditching the internal amour and buying that shirt instead, as internet folk claim this increases comfort and possibly ventilation too...

So interested to hear if anyone any thoughts or experiences with protection such as the above mentioned? It`s around 300 USD so not cheap, but the discomfort/expensive/time loss of broken bones is much worse in the long-run. Is it overkill for touring or maybe added and valuable protection against spills? Any users out there?

Cheers!
RTW