HISTORY

Dave “Dingo” Moore, is the shaper and founder of DMZ Surfboards. He grew up as a surfboard factory shop rat in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, surfing Malibu as his home break. Dave also became known as the graffiti artist, "Dose-1" in the early days of the LA street art scene. He travelled to Australia after high school, where he worked briefly as as a hand sander for a surfboard company but returned home to attend college in Santa Barbara. He worked on fishing boats during that time and surfed every wave from California to Mexico.

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Dave was recruited because of his surfing abilities and helped pioneer the snowboarding industry in the 90's. He built the first snowboard park at Heavenly Valley and later managed the legendary resort at Mt. Waterman before settling down in Huntington Beach to raise his daughter in 1999. It was there he created the original Dingbatz and became the go-to ding repair shop for pro surfers, major surf events and all the local surf shops at the time.

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Dave took up shaping and became knowledgeable by working with feedback from his team in the early 2000′s (Ian Ekberg, Brett Simpson, Randy “Goose” Welch, Ryan Carlson, and Timmy Reyes to name a few). He pitched them boards that he shaped and began recognizing consistencies in boards his riders loved. He learned a lot while building his first boards and doing repairs on boards by various shapers. He soon began shaping his own boards under the Dingbatz/DMZ name.