That's cool! Surface finning with the board sounds like a good idea. I do 25m dynamic laps at the moment to focus on technique and it's improving gradually. Feel a lot more comfortable now. Like you, I use to train with my scuba short fins and when I switched to monos, it felt weird and i was tempted to switch back.
Read on another thread you'll be heading to Dahab. Sweeeeeeeeeeet..........

Hope you have great fun in the water with your monos.