For a man of your height Will best way of doing the start is just pull on and go straight for the sloper. Shorter folk seem to put toe in the starting jug first, but that's not helpful for the tall.
Thereafter, I can think of six different ways I've seen people do the second move, matching LH into the crease. Part of the painful, season after season misery of failure, despair, and soul-/ego-crushing desperation, always thinking the next go might just be "the one" fun is working out which method works for you!