“He never holds back. He’s always going psycho. Before a contest, I’ll go surfing a bunch but I won’t try to land every single thing I go for, but Dusty will just be going full bore and trying to land it. That’s his biggest strength. He’ll be doing airs right into the rocks and it’s like, ‘Well, I guess I have to try that now too.’ He pushes himself and everyone else around him at the same time.” —Mason Ho

“He’s got the tail-whip thing down, but being from Hawaii he seems to be pretty comfortable in anything from knee-high slop to triple-overhead bombs. It’s just like everything he does is to the extreme. He never looks like he’s forcing the issue, just kind of right on the edge.” —Luke Davis