I had no one to show me how to trap out so I just did it. The first time I tried, I kept my feet on the hull and leaned back. A small wave hit my feet and I started spinning like a top on the wire on my way to the stern. The slight weather helm did what it is supposed to and gently turned the boat into the wind. The boat did not tip over, I managed to grab the back and climb back on. The next time I put my feet up on the bar. I later went to a hardware store and bought the safety tread strips for a bath tub and applied them along the outer lip of the hulls from the side stay to the stern. They help a little but it works much better to get your feet up on the tramp bar. I had the dealer install the neoprene no skid on the tramp bar. I was amazed on how comfortable it was out on the wire. Now I get out on the wire whenever there is enough wind to do so. I have just started to recognize the look of a puff coming across the water. Just recently I have begun to stand on the hull while my harness is attached to the wire, waiting on a puff so I can lean out when it comes. I have the main sheet cleated but it is in my hand ready to pull it out if the puff is more than I can handle. I hold it with one or two fingers while using the tiller with the same hand. My other hand is holding onto the side shroud for balance. I have had other people say that it looks strange to see me standing up but I have found that standing right next to the side stay is the balance point for me. In that position, the boat does all the rocking and I just move up and down with it. When I do lean back into the trapeese, I tend to stay in the middle and keep one eye on the leeward bow to make sure it doesn't do a nose dive and the other on the jib to make sure it stays full of air and watch that I don't pinch. I have found that with a weather helm, it feels natural to want to turn into the wind... until you stall. By watching the tells on the jib and recognizing the weather helm, I avoid that. When a puff does try to tip me over I push on the tiller which at that angle tries to burry the stern more than turn the boat, but eventually I slow the boat and it turns to the wind and comes back to the upright position, ususally pointing into the wind and stalls. I have just started to pull the tiller back to try to get the speed back while still in the puff. I still haven't figured out how to adjust the main traveler to adjust the angle to the wind when the hull comes up. I have found that I am learning things as they come to me. One thing at a time. The trick is to keep going out and trying.