About Us

Mirandon Surfboards is a family built line of surfboards. We create artistic, unique designs with a focus on functionality. Our surfing roots began back in the 50's in La Jolla, California. Nick and his brother Bear Mirandon began surfing and eventually learned the craft of building their own boards in the 60's. They created the brand Surfboards La Jolla and designed progressive split tail boards with two fins in 1966. Through all the years as Nick and Bear continued to shape and create art they also quietly passed the trade down through the family and to anyone who asked. Nick's sons, Eli and Croyde are designing, shaping, and coloring boards to suit their own mix of classic and modern surfing.

"We find joy in building boards to inspire generations, promote expression and expand the boundaries of creativity. We believe in encouraging the creative output of everyone we reach. For us, it is about providing culture, creating family, and leaving a heritage that will continue on to others after we are gone. We give spirit, belief and a piece of ourselves in all of our creations. We do this because we are inspired spiritually. We know there is something out there greater than us all. We welcome you to our family and look forward to becoming a part of yours." Best Wishes ... The Mirandon's

ABOUT ELI

Rare is the board shaper who can rip and surf at a very high performance level. Eli Mirandon is one of those exceptions.

A shaper of progressive designs some might even call futuristic, Mirandon soaked up the tricks of the trade through many years of competitive surfing, nomadic surf odysseys, and riding hundreds of boards made by some of the most influential and commercially successful contemporary shapers.

Only a surfer like Eli, who has experienced dozens of different wave energies and shapes and ocean bathymetry, can truly understand the multitude of shaping theories and applications. Eli has surfed nearly all over the world from the Galapagos to Papua New Guinea, Peru to Tahiti, Hawaii to Australia, from Central America to Europe to japan and beyond.

After 15 years of competitive surfing and shaping experience, Eli has vastly transcended the limitations of the prototypical and standard thruster. “For many years I rode chip boards and forced them to do things I wanted them to do in every different kind of wave,” says Eli. “After riding the same high performance chips for a decade in competitions, my mind got to the point where I wanted to do something different. I wanted to surf a part of the wave in a way that wasn’t suitable to the high performance thruster,” adds Eli, who estimates that he’s ridden over 1,000 boards, something else that distinguishes himself from the average shaper.

Having worked with or ridden boards by Xanadu, Rusty, Timmy Patterson and Al Merrick and many other top shapers gives Eli an encyclopedic knowledge of board function and design. Of all the shapers Eli has worked with or ridden their boards, the most influential one is his own father, Nick Mirandon, who has been shaping since the early 1960s and left his mark on the shaping world by introducing the twin pin twin fin in 1967 as well as other cutting-edge designs.

“My dad was the first person in my life to help me figure out how to create a board to accomplish riding a particular wave the way I wanted to,” he says. By riding the premier shaper’s boards for many years, Eli has combined the vast knowledge of influential sources in the shaping industry and soaked up their knowledge. But Eli didn’t stop there.

Some of Eli’s boards over the years have caused beach goers to do a double take. His progressive shapes over the years aren’t designed just to be a gimmick, though; they are designed to keep surfers in the barrel longer and turn with more control and do other things that your average board can’t do.

Eli Mirandon shapes both high-performance conventional thrusters and out of the ordinary progressive designs like gliders, cruisers, fishes, porpoises and more.

Welcome to the 21st century of shaping. Happy surfing.

NICK MIRANDON SURFER MAGAZINE BLACKS BEACH JULY 1965 VOLUME SIX NUMBER THREE 75 CENTSELI AT BLACKS DEC 5TH 2007 RIDING A NICK DESIGNED AND SHAPED 5'10 "PORPOISE"