Antiflare technique

Some people complain about the Tokina 12-24 being more prone to flare than the Nikkor 12-24. This is more or less true, but in practice there are not so many occasions where you could suffer from this. I have been doing quite a lot of landscape photography with the Tokina 12-24 on the Nikon D200 and I discovered that you can solve the flare problem (when it occurs) just by using your hand as a hood extension (not getting your hand on the picture of course). This has been working all the time until now (when I saw flare in the viewfinder of course).
Maybe this sounds silly, but it helped me a lot...

A picture showing how I look like when doing this... and then a simple shot without the hand and with the hand...