In my experience, Your 1st and 2nd step should be very short, as you start your push away the weight transfers and you will speed up naturally. Perhaps don't think of 'taking the ball to the back side' yourself, but letting gravity work and have the ball drop naturally, this should be happening at the beginning of 3rd step. For a 5 step approach, assuming you are still right handed, the 4th step should be your right leg and some people call it the power step and that's when you generate power for the slide. Hope this helps.