Now that I’ve been doing the deep water start successfully for three months, there are a couple of things I’ve changed since I initially learned it.

• The most important thing is getting the boat to give you a soft pull. With it, I can almost always get up. Without it, I hardly ever can.
  
  
• I start with the ski more at an angle now. When I first learned, I would put the ski almost vertical and as long as I had a lot of it starting out of the water, the boat would pull me over to plane the ski. But now I start with the tip of the ski lower, but the whole ski more angled. The only difference with this way is that I don’t feel as much of being pulled over to plane the ski; it’s more of just rising up.
  
  
• If the pull is harder than I’d like, I have to fight the plane a little. When I feel that I’m being pulled over to plane the ski, I push a little with my legs to keep myself at the angle and rise up a little more. Otherwise when I’m planing , I’m still too much under water and I fall.