The WindPouch is a durable, lightweight and water resistant inflatable hammock; that is a super comfy lounge chair. It uses Ripstop nylon fabric sleeves with plastic bag liners as air chambers, and you do a pumpless inflation, fold and seal and enjoy. Use it for many activities and locations, including camping, hiking, hanging out, at the beach, pool, park, backyard, home, concert festivals and more.
Features
The WindPouch is an inflatable hammock that utilizes Ripstop nylon as its base material which is then coated with polyurethane for water resistance and durability. It has two air chambers for inflation purposes that use a PVC plastic inner lining that runs the entire length of the hammocks body. The air chambers are sealed everywhere except at one end where a roll-up closure system uses 3 cm wide flexible plastic sheet stock and a quick-release buckle to close off the opening. Once the air chambers are filled, there is a space between them for sitting or lounging. It has two mesh pockets on one side for a phone and sundry items and a stretch slot on the other for drinks. It comes with an aluminum stake and a carabiner to tie the hammock down, and a Diamond Lattice Ripstop nylon carrying bag comes in five colors (Cool Blue, Crimson Red, Deep Charcoal, Emerald Green, and Super Pink) and retails for $79.95.
Impressions
You fill up the air chambers by spreading apart the plastic closure sheets which then opens up the inner plastic bags and scoop up the air into them. At the end of the scoop, you close them together to seal the chamber. You continue opening and closing them until the air chamber is around 75% filled and then do the same for the other side. Once they are both filled to the proper storage capacity, you roll up the plastic sheets over themselves 3-4 times and bend them together and clip the quick release closed.
I found that there were three methods for filling the air chambers:
- Do it on a gusty and windy day.
- Quickly run 10-50 feet scooping up air.
- While staying in one location, slowly scoop air.
Filling the chambers on a day when it’s windy and gusty out is ideal, as it takes little effort and always works, making it simple to fill them to capacity. Running a short distance facilitates filling the chambers, but it takes an open space and requires a lot of energy, and it’s easy to trip and fall, and it doesn’t always succeed. Lastly, the most utilized method has you stand in one location and slowly scoop up air, going back and forth multiple times, opening and closing the plastic sleeves as needed. This system can sometimes be incredibly frustrating since it fails many times and during many others, it can seemingly take forever to fill the chambers. Most of the time you end up dealing with the air chambers being at less than the ideal 75% filling and rolling the sleeves more than the proper four times, and you end up with a shorter hammock. It does get easier with practice doing the manual method, though it can still feel annoying getting it properly filled.
So far the WindPouch has been durable, and I’ve used it on grass, sand, gravel, pavement and concrete, and there haven’t been any wear and tear issues. Naturally, it can’t deal with sharp rocks, cactus and other items like that since it’s a thin layer of Ripstop nylon with an inner plastic bag that holds the air. It has gotten wet a few times, so it’s water resistant, though I haven’t yet taken into the water and floated around, I assume it would work fine? It comes with a stake and a carabiner so you can tie it down to its securing loop to prevent it from blowing away while outdoors.
It’s extremely comfortable to lounge in, and it was easiest to straddle the hammock and sort of flop into it to lay down. To get back out it seemed the easiest to roll out on one side or the other. My daughter spent many hours vegging in it while reading and watching videos on her computer in the living room, and she gave highlights to its multi-hour comfort level. It seems to retain the firmness or its air for anywhere from 2-5 hours and then needs to be re-inflated. Once done with the WindPouch, unclip the quick release, unroll the plastic sleeve closures and roll than from the opposite end of the opening squeeze out the air, and then you bend the plastic sheet back onto itself and close with the buckle.
Bottom Line
The WindPouch is a super comfy chair. It’s a hammock, beanbag, and comfy couch all built into one versatile product that’s around 6 to 6.5 feet long. It’s portable, lightweight, easy to inflate (sometimes) and can hold a prodigious amount of weight. The WindPouch would be the perfect item for just about anywhere, roads trips, hanging out after a mountain bike ride, visits to the park and beach, inside the house, the backyard, and some festival concerts. It extremely comfortable and weighs only 2.7 lbs and can be folded to the size of a small backpack. You don’t have to pump air into it, and you just scoop up the air, and it’s ready to use. Unless you’re filling the WindPouch on a windy day, it can sometimes be frustrating to get the air chambers filled up to their proper 75% capacity, though you can roll the sleeves closed with less air and had a shorter length hammock. It gets easier with practice to fill the air chambers, though I don’t think I’d call it a simple task.
Pros
- Comfortable lounge chair
- Portable
- Water resistant
- Lightweight
- Can float in water – pool or lake
Cons
- Frustrating to fill on non-gusty wind days – easier with practice
- Though durable – material and plastic liner aren’t immune to sharp objects
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Specifications
- Inflated Dimensions: 7.2 x 2.1 x 2.3 Feet or 86.4 x 25.2 x 27.6 inches
- Packaged Dimensions: 14 x 7.2 x 4 Inches
- Weight: 2.5 Pounds
- Shipping Weight: 4.25 Pounds
- Maximum Weight: 500 Pounds
For further information refer to windpouch.com