KARA’s journey began back in 2019, during the beginning of the pandemic. Being a full time automotive engineer, me, Raul, was feeling the major impact of the pandemic on the industry. Because of certain circumstances, like lockdowns and a period of short-time work, i was on the search for a new hobby to cope with the free time that was being generated. As a landlocked surfing-enthusiast i missed the feeling of being on a board driven by ocean waves so much, that i made the decision to simulate this feeling as good as possible: the idea of building electric skateboards was born. During the process of building all these boards, i discovered that i enjoy the woodworking part of it the very most. So besides i started to build new kind of boards like surfskates, balanceboards or skimboards and also new furniture for our good old camper van.

In the next years, together with my girlfriend Katha, we both expanded our collective interests a lot. We started to learn new sports like surfskating, longboarding, balance boarding, but also to deal with forces of mother nature like wind, waves and snow on all kind of boards. We surf, skate, skimboard, wingfoil, wingskate, dance on longboards, go hiking, skiing and snowskating as much as possible. We are not great at all these things – but we enjoy them a lot. These are the things that make us happy.

All these different experiences helped us a lot to better understand our selfmade boards. After testing many different manufacturing techniques, materials and shapes, we got so enthusiastic about our new hobby, that we decided to make more out of it.

So here we go: KARA Boards is now a small company in Bavaria/Germany and we produce every board by hand with love and passion.
Our new journey starts now. Let’s GO!

Katha and Raul, together KARA Boards