Lonnie Toft is a 1970s era American professional skateboarder and snowboarder from Southern California who has also been extensively involved with surfing, wakeboarding and standup paddleboarding.

The Sims company's first production snowboard, then called a skiboard was a Lonnie Toft Model skateboard deck attached to a polyethylene molded bottom.

In a 2012 interview given to the action-sports program The Daily Habit (hosted by Pat Parnell), Toft spoke about growing up in Southern California in the 1970s, "The 70's were irreplaceable.

In William Sharp's 2019 skateboarding book "Back In The Day" Toft noted that in 1973, his older brother Dan had initially given him the idea.

Lonnie immediately bought a pair of clay-wheeled roller skates at a swap meet, took them apart, and fastened them to an extra-wide skateboard deck he had cut from an old door.