I also have a couple of female riders where their method of getting up is to have me put the boat in gear and they'll position their feet on the board with the board mostly underwater and I'm dragging them in gear and then when they feel good about their foot position, they say hit it and I give them throttle. It's not the traditional "flip" technique, but it's how they both prefer to start and they've gotten to the point where they're both freeriding and that's just how they start. So who am I to argue and make them do something they're less comfortable with?