I bought an ifrogz skin for my ipod video, and can assure you that it is superb protection. The rubber texture is very smooth, and covers almost the entire surface of the ipod video (I have a 60gb).
So you get your package from ifrogz, you put a light, thin plastic screen protector over the face of the ipod. Then you apply the wheel decal (necessary, because there are air bubbles that form under the plastic screen protector around the wheel). Then you slip the ipod in through the video window of the rubber case, finesse the cover into place on top, and put the bandz around it.
A suggestion: the bandz have a headphone hole on the top right. In order to get this to work properly, push the headphone connector through the bands first, and then click the headphone connector into the ipod. The bandz actually works to hold your headphone connector in more securely.
A caveat: if you have a 30gb ipod video, then the ifrogz comes with a thin white plastic filler that fits in behind your ipod. They don't make 2 sizes of the skinz, just 1. It's really not noticeable, though (my wife has one, and it works fine for her 30gb). Otherwise, I am really enjoying mine. Hope this is helpful.
