One of the first steps to getting the “pop” you are looking for is to get comfortable with what is called the “progressive edge”. It doesn’t really matter much what you are doing with your legs if you don’t have lots of tension on the rope at the top of the wake. The advice given on extending your legs and standing tall at the top of the wake is correct but if you don’t have line tension you won’t get much pop. Most novice riders make the common mistake of cutting out far away from the wake then cutting in towards the wake as hard as they can right away. What occurs is that you reach your top speed out in the flats instead of at the wake. The issue is that once you reach your top speed you let off on your edge therefore losing “line tension “. You want to do, instead, is once you finish cutting away from the wake just let the boat begin to pull you back into the wake. Call this 1/10 intensity. As you begin to approach the wake you want to steadily ramp up the intensity of your edge towards the wake. You don’t want to hit your max intensity 10/10 until you reach the wake. You will still be hitting the wake at the same speed as you used to but now you have line tension! Don’t worry about extending your legs just yet. Keep them “strong”, not locked when you hit the wake so your legs don’t absorb all your hard work. Keep the the handle of your new wakeboard rope at your hip and you will get LAUNCHED! Once you are getting consistent pop on both your heel side and toe side (nobody wants to be a heel side hero) then you can start to work on your timing extending your legs at the top of the wake. Right now you should slow the boat down to the slowest it will go but still has a clean wake, shorten the rope to a length that you are consistently landing on the downside of both wakes. Once you have the progressive edge figured out and you are landing in the flats consistently you can start letting out the rope and inching up the speed. Not too much on the speed though. My friend is currently the top rider in Canada, Hunter Smith, and he rides at about 21 mph. Happy shredding!