Happy holidays. We have some great news for 2025. We're going on tour with live shows on the West Coast and the East Coast through the spring. And then we're going to be looking at going international for 2026. And our first ever live event is going to be in San Diego, California at the belly up tavern in Salana Beach on Tuesday, January 21st.

This is going to be featuring today's podcast guest Rusty Prysendorfer and ProSurfers, Taylor

Knox and Jojo Roper. Tickets are only 25 bucks. You can get them at bellyup.com or we've also posted a link to the ticket sales on our

social media and our website.

I'm going to be hosting the conversation with Rusty and the surfers.

And then Chas Smith is actually going to be emceeing the evening.

He'll have games and giveaways, including a surfboard giveaway.

So I really hope that you can make it out.

I hope to meet you in person. The belly up in Salana Beach on January 21st. It's a Tuesday night.

Doors open at 7. Show starts at 8. We should be done by 10 p.m. Space is limited, so get your

tickets now. Hope to see you.

There are few surf logos that are more identifiable than the R dot, and few brands to rise to superstardom so quickly.

Be it luck or fate, Rusty happened to be born at a place in time that allowed him access

to pioneering figures in surfing.

He developed his raw talent through hard work and

feedback from great surfers and then was perfectly positioned to capitalize on a boom in surfing

that none of his predecessors nor cohorts could ever have really imagined, both in surfware

and also in surf boards. In 1993, Australia's Surfing Life

magazine named Rusty the second best shaper in the world. By the mid-90s, half of the top 16

surfers were riding his boards. And in 2002, Surfer ranked Rusty, the fifth most powerful

person in surfing. He was also named

Shaper of the Year in 2008 by Surfing Magazine. And guess what? He's still at it today

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