Had a bitch of a time setting X3 down onto jack stands today

[onthefence]

Since the X3 is higher than a sports coupe, my floor jack almost extends straight up to get the front high enough to clear the lowest setting on my 6T jack stands. As a result, the last few inches of lift also are moving the car forward.
when I lower the car, it is almost moving backwards, horizontally. The jack is not lowering, but lowering horizontally.

Since I kept the jackstand saddle perpendicular with the jack block, the block would almost slip off the jack stand saddle.
It took me like 10 tries to get the center of the blocks to sit in the saddle. Several times, the jack stand was tilting 2 legs off the ground, and I had to rejack and adjust.

I've never had this much hassle laying a car down onto jack stands. I might need to buy a new high reach jack to solve this lateral movement issue ?