You know chrispy, I don't feel half bad about this X stepping business as I used to.

No surf this arvo so I settled in to a few old you-tubes of the classic surfers from the 50s & 60s, and I noticed something about their style that I never noticed before.

Yes, they almost always X stepped up, but they more often than not, shuffled back.

Sometimes the first one or two may be a X step, they the rest would be a shuffle to the tail for the turn or the stall.

That means I only need to learn it in one direction to pretend I'm Miki Dora