Dusty Payne wins 50 gees at the Kustom Air Strike; vows to punish liver and find submissive women
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So it comes to this. A room barely four footsteps wide and long found at the end of a short corridor at Bondi’s The Rum Diaries.
Inside, seven men, and this includes flame-haired tomcat Dusty Payne from Maui, and one woman in a short black dress, with ruffles, and ankle-high boots make totally fabulous conversation. They eat spicy shards of meat, washed down indulgent throats with Pilsner Urquell.
A man called Harry, who is from the athletic shoe company Kustom, hides behind a secret bookcase holding a two-button jacket with $US4000 stapled to the arms and torso.
Dusty is at The Rum Diaries because Stab asked if he’d participate in a night on the liquor, with cameras to document his stumbles and successes. I ask the usual droll questions: how old, what town, do you slap woman around, should we nuke the bastards in Iran etc.
I also ask, pointedly, about a certain fabulous air-reverse that he has entered into the Kustom Air Strike contest.
He tells me it came the day after he won the Oakley Pro Junior at Karamas in Bali. He celebrated that $US20,000 winner’s cheque by helping smash five bottles of Jack and three of Absolut at a Tommy Lee gig at the Hard Rock Café in Kuta.
The following morning, he felt woeful and decided to wash away his troubles with a surfing session at Canguu.
The lineup was empty.
He surfed the right that flew into the little left point.
On his first wave he wobbles to his feet and falls backwards.
Number two, he hucks this son of a bitch.
“…And I came away with it,” he says. The surfboard is a Nev Hyman-shaped Firewire with the dimensions 6’0” x 18 ¼” x 2 ¼”.
I ask, what would you do with the money if you won the Kustom Air Strike, making careful note to tell him, falsely, that a clause in the competition means he has to immediately blow five per cent or $2500 on a celebration?“Five per cent? I’d double it, make it five grand,” he says.
Dustin is wearing beige athletic shoes, black jeans and a t-shirt with the world Volcom spelt out above the heads of drunks.
“That’s me,” he says, pointing to a stout redhead.
He doesn’t know how right he is.
We knock on the shelf of the hidden bookcase, the agreed signal. Harry the man from Kustom, steps out, hands over the monied coat and says:
“Congratulation, you fruit, you’re fiddy gees richer.”
Dustin slaps his thighs five times, claps his hands and says: “Goddamn it! Jay Davies and I promised each other that if either won we’d go halves in an apartment at Yallingup!”
It ain’t so bad, kid. Have a drink on you.
The remaining $US45,000 will be transferred to Dusty’s account on Tuesday, April 14, 2009. –Derek Rielly
ANDY IRONS SIGNS WITH KUSTOM
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 00:43
Kustom Footwear is delighted to announce the signing of Three time World Champion Andy Irons to its team.
"Kustom and Andy Irons are a natural fit," says Harry Truscott, General Manager at Kustom Footwear. Andy will be a huge addition to our team."
Besides the 3 World Titles and titanic battles with Kelly Slater, between 2002 and 2006, Andy won the prestigious Hawaiian Triple Crown (awarded to the most consistent surfer over the three North Shore events) four times, another major milestone in his career.
Irons, 30, who loves the simple life of his island of Kauai, was stoked his feet would be looked after by a footwear brand that understands his need for diversity, durability, and style.
"We have had Andy on our short list of athlete's for awhile," says Pat Fraley, Brand Director at Kustom Footwear. "He is a major and welcome addition to the family".
Andy joins an already impressive team that includes Joel Parkinson, Josh Kerr, and young prodigy Kolohe Andino. Making Kustom's team one of the best in the business. Among many other marketing initiatives Kustom Airstrike is at the forefront of surfers minds, the richest single maneuver prize purse in surfing, offers $50,000 for the craziest air.
Says Andy Irons: "For fifty gees, a kid will try and change the world."
With Andy not on the 2009 WCT tour he will be focusing his efforts on free surfing the globe.
"It sure feels good to be free this year, to be able to focus on driving my surfing to a whole new level" says Andy, who has already been granted a wildcard for the 2010 WCT season.
Expect, a rested, excited and determined AI on tour in 2010.
Best Kirra in a Decade?
Tuesday, 31 March 2009 00:40
"For me personally, it was the best Kirra I have witnessed for over a decade, there were a few days back in the late 90's and early 2000 but yesterday Monday March 30 was an exceptional day holding 6-8 ft, even as the tide dropped. It wasn’t like classic old Kirra, more like a bottomless JBay; the waves were almost heading back out to sea.” – Film maker Justin Gane. Most of Justin’s films like Unleashed, Pulse, Pulse 2, Odyssey, Supa Doopa, Gold Struck, Pulse 2001, Activ8, Wanderjahr and Tempo featured classic Kirra sections. Look out for a comprehensive feature today on Coastalwatch. Photo: Justin Gane.
Dusty Payne wins 50 gees at the Kustom Air Strike; vows to punish liver and find submissive women
Kustom Footwear is delighted to announce the signing of Three time World Champion Andy Irons to its team.
"For me personally, it was the best Kirra I have witnessed for over a decade, there were a few days back in the late 90's and early 2000 but yesterday Monday March 30 was an exceptional day holding 6-8 ft, even as the tide dropped. It wasn’t like classic old Kirra, more like a bottomless JBay; the waves were almost heading back out to sea.” – Film maker Justin Gane. Most of Justin’s films like Unleashed, Pulse, Pulse 2, Odyssey, Supa Doopa, Gold Struck, Pulse 2001, Activ8, Wanderjahr and Tempo featured classic Kirra sections. Look out for a comprehensive feature today on 
