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Maybe some hydroturf on the edge of the swim deck would prevent that if it's happening at all.
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I honestly have no idea why anyone would want to do it another way unless I'm missing something. Far less skill getting up, much faster overall, much easier for a new rider. Only negative I can see would be if you have a higher transom.
Unless you fall forward and face plant into the swim deck... Ouch...
I guess you could fall while in the transom still, or somehow lunge forward just off the transom..but its very hard to even do that..the minute you stop moving forward and start to fall the boat is still pulling away from you at ~10MPH. Not saying its impossible, just seems like it would be hard to do.
Now that you mention it, I remember reading that in the documentation for one of my boards too. It could be a lot worse than a concussion if not floating correctly in the water. This is probably one of those things that seems dangerous until you actually try it and then it's not so bad. However I don't think I'll get over the seems dangerous part to try it since I don't have any issues with deep water starts. For some reason this reminds me of the member that put hydro turf on his tower so his kids could jump off of it into the water. Not something I'll be allowing anytime soon.