Good ways to pick up speed early?

I’m at level 46, and hitting distances of 8km+… when I can get past the dreadful slump in the beginning before I have enough speed to get the wingsuit. It’s really a weird distribution: most of my crashes happen before 1km, and if I make it past that, I get past 5k or more.

With any non-Paz player, I’d do the following:

• backflip down every small hill
• try to land a double backflip or other combo (usually die here because too-low-speed is subtle but still deadly)
• pray for a lot of balloons or wallride or other source of stringable combos

So… is there any better way to get up to speed early on, in the sub-1k range? It’s not the most fun you can have in the game, and replaying it over and over kinda saps my motivation.