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Dusty Payne, Telos-pop musik (track three), Indonesia

The Telos stint that Dusty Payne (pictured here) is currently on, wit Droid Doheny, Alex Gray, Zeke Lau and Yadin Nicol, is his first trip since returning from injury. Ankle injury, to be precise, which involved the Hawaiian landing funny on a shorebreak air-reverse in California, hearing a click and continuing to surf on the injury until it all became too much. Kid hadn’t hit the water all year, had done no WT events, then a coupla days’ before Chopes started, a clip turned up that showed Dusty steaming through some Staddie bowls. Then, of course, he turned up to Chopes. But it takes a bit to get back into competition and things didn’t go so swimmingly. But, according to Tom Carey, who shot this, Dusty looks to be no worse for wear and is surfing with a grip of power and flair.


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Tom Carey

Tom Carey is, like, 31 years young. Things may change when he’s older, but for now he ain’t shot much he digs: “I get sick of looking at stuff,” he says. “But, I guess the first remote flash shot I had run of Nate Yeomans was pretty epic. People probably wouldn’t remember. But it was a game-changer to me.” That says a lot about Tom. He does things for himself and he’s honest. Just ask him about being ripped off by the industry: “Everyone wants to skim a few dollars off you. Its not coming out of their pockets but it’s sure as hell coming out of ours.” And since he was so thrilled to answer, Stab’s gotta include Tom’s fav retired shooters: “I love this question. No one asks it anymore. Maybe Chris Van Lennep. I don’t know, the list could go on. Tony Roberts f’sure. His shots really inspired me. His angles in the water were so ahead of his time.”

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