1. shorten the rope.
2. drain some ballast. Faceplant pain increases with wake size. How big are you trying to crash?
3. Realize that your HS cut out into the flats is the same position as a HS edge into the wake. Start getting comfy on your edges and transitioning between tracking and edging.
4. get the book. most conclusive wake dvd out.
5.
http://www.waketrix.com/dvd/pages/instructional.htm Check out the Hop in hop out drill on waketrix. There's a few other online instructional sites too.