Lakai Footwear

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Lakai Limited Footwear

Type
Founded	Torrance, California in 1993
Headquarters	Torrance
Key people	Rick Howard Mike Carroll Megan Baltimore Spike Jonze
Industry	Skateboarding
Website	www.lakai.com

Lakai Footwear Limited is a footwear company based in Torrance, California that creates shoes designed for and inspired by skateboarding. Lakai was founded by professional skateboarders and Girl Skateboards co-founders Mike Carroll and Rick Howard in 1999. They felt they could make a contribution to the skate-footwear world by running their own company rather than riding for someone else's. The company was formed after both riders left DC Shoes.

The name Lakai is short for Malakai which is Mike Carroll's nickname. On May 1, 2006, Eric Koston officially signed with Lakai after leaving éS Footwear at the end of 2005 after choosing not to renew his contract when éS owners Pierre André and Don Brown declined to give Koston part ownership in the company.^[1]

Lakai's first video, 'Beware of the Flare', was released in June 2002^[2]. Their next video 'Fully Flared' premiered on November 16, 2007. It was released on DVD on December 7, 2007. It went on to receive the Years Best Video Award from The Skateboard Mag.

Lakai Limited Footwear is part of the Girl Distribution family, along with the afforementioned Girl Skateboards, Chocolate Skateboards, Royal Trucks, Fourstar Clothing Co, Ruby Clothing, Crailtap (Girl Distributions online hub for all of their brands) and newer board company Skate Mental. .