Pansch Ace 12m ... I'm sure it's Chinese for "Rip your arms out sucka"
Took it for a quick spin today ... not much blow but then the bloody wind shifted right around and was pushing out over the lake - I had great fun trying NOT to scud into the water

Cheers D-man!

you having an 12sqm ACE now? congrats! is it your own, or borrowed ?
want videos videos videos! and put some old ski / snowblades under your feet and ski on sand! its possible !
and maybe try it on the water? if its warm enough! ultimate low wind power has arrived at you !

Picked it up off D-man just before we went to Thailand ... I think D sold himself short cos it was silly cheap and looks brand new - I think I made it dirtier taking it out of the bag than the last time he put it away

I can believe the skiing on sand! The pull is just relentless - went I thought it'd stop pulling it just kept on hauling! Lo-ooong scuds ... but so hard on the arms! Really need some kind of harness or strop!

Glad you like it Kami! I never got the right wind to use all that power without the fear of ending up in Oz and landing on a witch.

kami, but you know - now that you own one you must prove the lightwind power of the pansh ace ! you have a gopro, you can surf - so now we want to see a high def video of you surfing that monster in 8-10 knots !!!!

ah and could you maybe weight the 12m ace ? do you have a kitchen scale ? very curious if it is really that light (i got a measurement, but it was unbelievable light, see
http://www.kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2360753
would be nice to have corrected / justified this value)

We have got to see a video, Kami.

The 7m Ace pulls like a truck, I couldn't imagen what the 12m feels like. Over 10mph wind I get the jitters with the 7m, I would need some kind of pills or something to pick up the handles on that 12m.

Herc - kite, lines, handles all in the stuff bag weighs 2.6kg ... kitchen scales stop at 2kg but both bathroom scales give near enough the same - 2.6kg was from the digital ones, the analog gauge read about the same.

Had a second play with it in almost non-existent winds on a grass field, but used my back-strap ... much nicer to fly! Mad power though ...!

Hey Kami I have A poleys seat harness that you can have if you want it

Cheers but I got a Dakine seat harness ... I specifically wanted the Ozone climbing-style harness so I could whip it on over my pants and not look like I'm wearing a well-filled diaper on the landboard
I promised the guy at my local shop that I'd get it from him so I could always get it (or try to get it!) from the US but ... well, I promised.

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Ozone climbing-style harness

any informations on that ? a link ? a picture? sounds interesting!


@kami: thanks for weighting. but - kite only ( just the kite with bridles, no lines, handles, bag) would be very interesting for my list. but your weight - 2.6kg - already confirmes that the pansh 12sqm is indeed quite lightweight! -- see the list here: http://www.kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2360753

also look at those nasawings - they are champ regarding weight.. i so much want a 16 or 19sqm nasawing for ultralightwind experiments ...

It's just the Ozone Access XT snowboarding blah-blah harness .... couldn't be bothered typing out the whole name




No worries ... I parapack so don't want to pull it all out The handles are pretty light though, being aluminum and not much else ...

Kami do you wind your lines or daisy chain/braid them? I always break it all down with my 5m Ace.
At 200lbs I think the 12m would kill me!!! The 5m pulls hard enouph!

I couldn't figure out how to do daisy chaining, despite it being explained slowly and carefully ... and in a loud voice I just stuff the lines in my bags, usually down the back then the handles in down the front.

So you don't crochet either I guess!!

Oh! THAT'S what you're talking about! Why didn't you just say so in the first place? Use the right jargon #@%$#!es

I am sooo very sorry for using the wrong slang crap words:tumble:
So do you know how to do that? Or are you just being a be-otch about it? :bouncy:

LOL you guys crack me up.

I like to do what Kami does and cram them in the bag. I think its called para packing. Get you in the wind quick but you can't take out the kite anywhere without laying out the lines first.

Yeah I still wind mine but I want to try the daisey chain/crochet/bea-otchy thing. I do it with all of my large display kites like the Suttons and sled lifter stuff. But the bridles on those are less then 30 feet not 20m flying lines.

Yeah I think I know what you're talking about and nah I haven't yet and probably won't try it cos it just sounds like extra work