Pansh ... it's Chinese for "Drawn and Quartered"

... or maybe just "Pull your arms from body or throw you into sky, your choice suckah"

Had a few sessions with this monster so far, this being about the fourth.
My little beach at club Locus had good clean onshore winds that would be Crappy on any other kite but were Gravy for the Ace this afternoon, so I thought I'd see how my DIY pulley handles worked. And maybe have a setup and test flight for the Core 6.7 that just arrived!

The Ace flies much better on a back-strap (and no doubt, a harness) so you can take all the power through your body and then use the brakes by hauling on the bottom of the handles. This is, not surprisingly, much more effective than trying to fly it like a regular fixed bridle kite on handles.
The pull is just so relentless through the power zone as the kite moves slowly from one side of the window to the other ... massive long scuds downwind! You've got to keep an eye on it though cos it'll race to the edge of the window and collapse if you don't stop it, resulting in at best a near total collapse or at worst, a bow-tie. Thankfully, the small amount of wind needed to fly the Ace means you can just drop the handles and sort the kite out without worries of it flying away ... have to watch it rushing to the zenith too; didn't like it for pendulum jumps cos it's so slow to turn and unless I got it right, would collapse at the end of the jump too. Keep it moving though and you're rewarded with monumental pull.

The DIY pulley handles work nice.
I modified my old Rebble 5m handles, which were strangely an inch longer than the Ace 12m handles. Had no idea about leader line lengths so gave it a generous amount for the brake leader through the pulley. Again, they work best with the harness as you take the power through the back-strap and just steer with the brakes, hands at the bottom of the handles. It'll turn on a wing tip quite crisply, or very near to it.

Thoughts on the pulley handles ...
The closer the knot is to the handles, the less throw you seem to get on the brakes but it's easier to pull.
The kite seems less fussy about the relative lengths of the brake lines but they need to be longer or the pull on the brakes is reduced.
The pulleys seem to limit the amount you can actually pull the brakes too: unlike on regular handles, you can't stall the wing tip by hauling the brakes all the way back. The way the pulleys seem to work, when you've used up all the travel in the brake leader but keep pulling on the handle, it actually pulls the power line too, like you're doing a pull turn with a good dollop of brakes on. So far, this is a good thing; and you can still back-stall the kite fine ...

We'll see if the pulley handles are actually the best option, need to do more testing versus regular handles.

Didn't even get the Core out of the bag, got distracted by the monster Ace! Probably just as well, cos the Core looks brand-spanking new (thanks Ripsession Kites!) and the beach is somehow very dusty so kites, shoes, pants etc end up filthy.