The older righting style was to point the mast into the wind, but the more recent way is to point the bows into the wind. Then the wind is more easily able to get under the sail and help with the righting process. And when the boat comes up, it will be pointed into the wind instead of in a reaching position where it wants to sail away -- or flip over again the other way.

P.S. Unless you use Bill Roberts' idea of a parachute anchor to hold the bows into the wind, it is difficult to get the bows closer than 45 degrees to the wind just by sitting or standing on the bows. But 45 degrees still works fine.