Notably, Rusty has worked with professional surfers such as Josh Kerr,[4] Jamie O'Brien, C. J. Hobgood, Wade Carmichael,[5] Liam "Letty" Mortensen,[6] and Jacob "Zeke" Szekely.
[8][9] In 2014, Rusty and Billabong teamed up to make a line of surfboards that are replicas of the board used by Mark "Occy" Occhilupo in 1984.
[17][18][19] Rusty released the surf film TUFF (2015), which starred Noa Deane, Josh Kerr, and Dylan Goodale.
[22][23][24] In 2020, the Rusty Boardhouse surf shop in La Jolla, California, closed down.
[11] During the 2020 Australian bushfire season, Rusty also made a bushfire relief T-shirt design whose proceeds went to the Australian Red Cross and WIRES Wildlife Rescue's relief efforts.