Lost Surfboards by Mayhem

Handmade in San Clemente, California

The Lost Surfboard brand began in 1985 with now legendary shaper Matt Biolos and a bunch of school friends started up ‘team lost’ that would spend their time between snowboarding at Mt. Baldy, skateboarding in Upland at the Pipeline and surfing Dana Point. Team Lost scribbled their name on books, shirts, tables and eventually, a clothing brand was born.

In 1987 Lost Head Shaper Matt Biolos began sanding surfboards fresh out of high school. Adopting the name “Mayhem” (an ode to the second model he shaped – Mayhem was the name of a punk rock band “Mayhem Ordnance” in the mid 80s, Matt Biolos was part of).

Matt ‘Mayhem’ Biolos shaped 20 boards his first year. Not too many people were ordering boards from “Mayhem” yet, so to make money he continued to sand surfboards and began to paint designs on them along with a handwritten LOST wherever he could.

Surfers like Christian Fletcher and Matt Archbold were getting Biolos paint jobs. Working with some big shaping names in the California scene like Timmy Patterson, Jim Fuller, Terry Senate, and Randy Sleigh and getting plenty of feedback from top surfers, his shaping ability was able to develop and from there grew the Lost Brand into a world wide phenomenon.

Nowadays Matt Biolos aka Mayhem is one of the best-known shapers in the world and has been producing legendary shapes under the name Lost Surfboards for years, which Griffin Colapinto, Carissa Moore, Kolohe Andino and Mason Ho, among others, swear by.

Lost x Lib Tech

Matt “Mayhem” Biolos has been collaborating with Pete Saari’s snowboard manufacturer Lib Tech for a few years now and it has been very successful. Not only because of the shapes, but also because of the sustainable production methods:

“I’ve always respected LIB’s shared values of not taking their marketing and image too seriously. Coupled with the commitment to performance, progression and the fact that they build most of their products themselves in the USA, I was convinced.

I believe there is a growing demand for a more stable, “greener” and sustainably built surfboard. I felt it was time to leave the old structures behind. Some brands simply hide mass-produced and imported products with little labor behind misleading marketing. Not so with Lib Tech and so I decided to work with LIB. Strong, light, durable and easy to reproduce boards with the respect for Mother Earth and the workers who build them.”