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STUART SINGER
from Dallas, Texas
was selected as the 
June 2005

Do you remember Stuart Singer?  He was the March 2003 Footer of the Month. Over two years ago, I nominated Stuart for Footer of Month due to his determination to learn a front to back on his feet.  At the time, he had spent nearly two years learning a front-to-back and was spending most of his time trying to break his bad step-under habit.

Well, it's been over two years and Stuart has been chipping away at that trick.  His frustration level has been as high as I've ever seen it with any skier.  For someone as naturally talented as Stuart, the front-to-back had become his albatross.   We were all starting to think he would never get the monkey off his back.

I was fortunate enough to be videoing last week.  I had stopped videoing Stuart's turns months earlier and had told him he just had to do a thousand of them and he would eventually get the feel for it.  For some reason, when I watched him do his warm-ups on shoe-skis that morning, I had a feeling he might just nail one that day.  So I asked Michele to take out the camera.  I was right.  Stuart hit a front-to-back after spending nearly 3 years working on it.  

Everyone who barefoots, or skis for that matter, can understand the frustration a person must feel having to wait over 3 years just to do a trick you're working on the first time.  It takes a lot of determination and dedication to keep yourself going.  After you seed the video below, I think you'll agree that Stuart deserves yet another Footer of the Month nomination.  The excitement Stuart experienced was worth the wait.  Just click the link below to watch the video.  

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1.8 Meg WMV

Congratulations my friend.  You have reached a level in footing that few people on the planet ever experience.  And most importantly, you are now eligible to be voted the 2005 BarefootCentral.com Footer of the Year.

Chuck Gleason

PS:  Here are some other cool pics of Stuart: