Swavek said..
Stand back when asking for help - asked a bloke on the beach if he would help me landing my kite. Expected 'yes, what would you like me to do?'
Instead the bloke said 'sure' then walked a step and grabbed my bar sending my kite straight into power zone! I never tried a megaloop but at that moment experienced the feeling - got catapulted several meters horizontally (luckily face planted in the sand). True story :-)
Yep, learning in 2002, similar thing happened. I was still learning about kites and Kite's were still newish in Perth. I was doing the walk of shame back from Trigg to scarbs. I was trying to work out self landing. A fella came up, sounded like he knew what he was talking about, grabbed the bar and sh$t went bad (not too bad, just looped and dragged for a bit).
He then said, "I've never seen one of these things before" and he walked off.
Lesson learned. I always try to be self sufficient and if I need to ask for help, I have a polite but thorough line of questioning before engaging in an assisted launch/landing.
