trouble getting behind boat: need a little help

[aura121002]

My friend has older outboard with a 105 on it. It is a ski boat and throughs almost no wake, but I figure that I can at least learn all the basics before I have a huge wake to worry about as well... Here is the problem that I am having, I am a pretty big guy at 6-1 and 280 and I am having trouble getting up, my board keeps sinking and it feels like and I am having to hold on way to hard. After several weeks of practice I can finally get up behind skis on this boat, it take about 5-8 seconds. Any tips on getting up behind a boat without a whole lot of power. Also I have not really seen anything about this, should a point my feet toward the boat or pull my toes toward my head?

The board is a CWB Inferno 141, should it be ok as far as size goes??

One more thing, my friends that can get up on my board are having trouble switching, any tips on that as well..

Thanks for any advise that I can get.
SR.

[waiting4theweekend]

first of all I'm new to all of this also. My first time out sounds alot like the issues you are having. This is the two factors that changed it all for me the first day it just seemed like I just didn't have enough grip to hold on to the rope so I purchased a pair of gloves that seemed to solve that issue. The other thing that happend is that we were having baot issues and could not go from idle to wide open so we had to half and then wide open this seemed to really help because for me I found that once the boat started pulling and the board went under water I turned the board and leaned back a little to pop the nose out and what do you know up I came. After getting this down I can now pop up going from idle to wide open. Another thing is don't fight the boat let it pull you forward. A good way to know is you may get pulled ofer the board and be on your belly with the board behind you this is a good indication that you are not fighting the boat. Your board size should be fine I'm 6'3" 185 lbs and I have a 140 that works fine for me. Hope this helps.