@griffin_cola and @crosbycola movie #DNA is playing on their YouTube channel now! Go to @cola_bros and click on the link in BIO. #LostSurfboards #Griffin #Crosby 🎥 @lawrence_photo @cran0__

@bigdeluxe_ breaking down the #PuddleJumperPRO by #LostSurfboards.

Well, the cats outta the bag. Happy to announce that @donaldbrink and I took the W, in the latest @stab #electricacidsurfboardtest. Thanks to @mfanno for the brilliant surfing and eloquent expression of his experience on all the assorted craft. This was a special process. Working with Donald was eye opening. A Bespoke surfboard experiment. The collaborative worked, because we approached it with a focus on performance first and foremost. Only then on being aesthetically pleasing, which can be just as important. Donald trusted my insistence on using tested and proven rocker, outline, concave and basic “chassis”, to build from. We ironically used the #Maysym model, as a starting point. Discussing and working together, adding more forward outline and thickness ( countering the extreme shortness) fin placement, rail volume and finish sanding. I ceded direction on many design details, like the Asym tail, Beak nose and air spray, letting Donnys outpouring of passion drive us. We actually tag team finish shaped the original board. Both simultaneously sanding away on the diminutive blank. The real eye-opener was the package Donny created, after the actual board was designed and built. He went mad, assembling a montage around the board, to hand over to Mick, to enamor and envelope him, within a 360degree #MicksTape bubble. Everything from hand made, marine plywood fins, to a completely original, adjustable, Asymetric tail grip. A custom screen printed #MicksTape board bag, hand carved, mini, replica surfboards, and the namesake itself, a vintage 1980’s #SonyWalkman, complete with an ‘80s inspired cassette “mixed-tape”, filled with classic songs, to pump Mick-Up for surfing. He even tossed in a Fanny pack, to hold the player and filled it with little trinkets, including a pack of cigarettes…as Donny said “to hand out as tips, to the Maldivian boat drivers and deck hands”. I mean seriously? This guy is outta hand! A compelling experience, if there ever was one. I knew that if I did my job correctly, making sure the basic core and build of the board worked, there was no way we could lose. And we didn’t.

Huge congratulations to @kirrapink. Taking the @isasurfing gold medal 🥇 victory, for her self and also securing team gold, as well as an extra @olympics 2024 spot, for the #TeamUSA Women. ——————————— So proud of you, Kirra. Surfing masterfully, jumping to early leads and committing to big, powerful turns, all week. Yesterday, I told your dad that you were going to win this thing. Carry this momentum on to the Challenger series and make it happen. ——————————- Big props and congrats also go out to @paulineado, of France, who repeatedly threw down clutch performances all week, taking the silver medal 🥈. Pauline was riding @lostsurfboards shaped by @davidsantosshaper of @lostsurfboards_europe, making a 1-2 finish for us, in the women’s. ——————————— Finally, look close at the two young men chairing Kirra up the beach. None other than her @usasurfing team mates ( and fellow San Clementians) @koloheandino24 and @griffin_cola who ripped hard, as well as cheered hard,all week. These two always show support and class in these situations. Speaking to Kolohe, after day-1, he said to me… “I didn’t realize how hard Kirra rips. She could win this thing”. A week later, she did just that. ————————————— Great job to the entire US team. I enjoyed going up and spending time on the sand with you all, including @nat_young @gabriela_bryan_ @zoe_mcdougall and my old pal, coach @ryansimmons1374.

@michaelrodrigues85 can’t get enough of the #SubDriver2.0 in #BlackSheepBuilt by #LostSurfboards 🎥 @jacobclicks