サーフィン界の度肝を抜くエアリアルのスペシャリストとしてその名を広めたマウイ島出身のサーファー。コンテストでもルーキーイヤーに45位から32位へ驚異的なジャンプアップ。ビラボン・パイプラインマスターズではミック・ファニングとのヒートで最終盤に大逆転を果たす。その後、マウイからの初WTサーファーとなり、とくにライトのポイントブレイクでホノルアベイ育ちならではの圧倒的な技術を見せる。

Known by the masses as a leader in the movement of above-the-lip surfing, Maui's Dusty Payne has earned recognition for logging mind-blowing video parts that are changing's the sport as we know it. Payne has proven himself to be equally as impressive in a singlet by surviving the deadly chop from 45 to 32 on his rookie year on the elite ranks before guaranteeing he'll be back for more in 2011 with a miraculous last-second victory in a pressure-cooker of a heat over Mick Fanning at the Billabong Pipe Masters. Payne's qualification for the ASP World Tour marked him as the first Maui surfer ever to do so and being born-and-raised at the world-class pointbreak of Honolua Bay have made Payne especially lethal in righthand pointbreaks.