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Based in Hood River, Oregon, DAKINE was founded in Maui, Hawai’i in 1979 by longtime surfer, Rob Kaplan. DAKINE’S first outcome, a creative new surf leash, swiftly gained worldwide hero- worship. This first leash led to more surfing agnate products, built to weather the tiring conditions of the surf on the north shore of Hawai’i. In Hawaiian slang, “Da Kine” means the superb and the enterprise has lived up to this paradigm through prominence to detail, heart on accessories, and a notoriously methodical devise activity.
With its position for top status products and concentration to detail, DAKINE quick grew beyond its surfing roots and has become the model in trustees sports accessories for the top athletes in the worlds of snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding, mountain biking, windsurfing, and kiteboarding, as well as surfing.
To better be convenient the growing worldwide desirable for DAKINE offshoot, a mill and apportionment center were opened in Hood River, Oregon in 1986 and the structure ere long replaced operations on Maui’s north shore to become the main plant and pith of apportionment. DAKINE’s Oregon spot, in the nerve of the Wolf down and the stem of Mount Hood–a hot speckle with North American windsurfers and snowboarders–also helps the train testify its competitive inch by giving the upshot increment side a tough new ecosystem for developing and testing products. A testament to the standards and prosperity of DAKINE by-product, the pro group roster reads like a who’s-who of activity sports....
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