For those of you who paddle with arms, and at other times with your legs and a pair of flippers: excerpt from (www.ksusa.org/). Your opinions… Yes? No? “… fins will never get you into waves as well as your arms.”
Assuming the person means actually catching waves and not a flat water paddle race,it would seem to close to call. Large floaty thing and small arm muscles=Small floaty thing and large leg muscles. Since most sealife seems to have decided to go with the flipper mode of movement, perhaps small floaty thing and a monofin might be a more interesting match up.