seems to me there are two types of surfers…those who learned to move around on the board, and those who learned that the feet more or less never move (or at least not very far). If you’re old enough, or spent some amount of time on a longer (7 foot plus?) board, the boards sort of required running around. If you learned on a short thruster, it’s more about weight shifting, not so much about quickly moving around ON the board.