Every year since 1994, the founding members of Barefoot Central kick off the summer right with a huge party.  For the last 3 years, Stuart and Shelly Singer have hosted the party.  

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The party has become famous for the Saturday lip sync contest.  Each year the competition continues to improve.  Dave & Katie Debourde won the contest this year with their rendition of the movie Grease.  

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Just like in 2004, we invited our Junior and Elite promo skiers to Dallas to take part in the fun.  It's a great 4-day weekend packed with plenty of footin, fun and relaxing.  I always take the opportunity to schedule morning photo and video shoots.  We always say, if you don't get it on video, it never happened. 

The BFC promo skiers who attended this year included Mike Salber, Marissa Williams, and Nolan Lough.  Add in Stuart Singer, Michele Gleason, Christina Murray from St Louis, Kyle & Debbie Fahrenthold, and myself, and it equals plenty of footers and fun on the water each morning.  

We all arrived at the river Friday morning and quickly took to the water.  The weather the entire weekend was overcast with temperatures ranging between 75-80 degrees.  The best thing about the weather was there was little to no wind resulting in glassy calm water in all directions.  A threat of thunderstorms throughout the weekend kept all the wallys away leaving us plenty of uninterrupted ski sets.

Between Mike Salber, Stuart and myself, we are always looking for new or crazy footin stunts to try so we can get video for the website.   We put them all together into a new BFC video titled "Slow Ride"  

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Friday was a free ski day, but Saturday morning kicked off at 6 am with an early morning photo shoot. Our goal of the photo and video shoot this year was to have fun.  Below are many of the pictures we took throughout the day.

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Chuck enjoying some morning glass	Front to back for the fisherman
Stuart's sweet toe-up
Christina Murray works backwards	Kathryn watching Mom ski
Michele works on turns
Mike Salber - "I don't need a handle to ski"
Michele does a back toe hold.
Chuck & Stuart - Click Here for video of this run	Nolan skis with Debbie Fahrenthold
Nolan Lough
Chuck, Stuart, and Mike clown around on the boom.  That's a lot of weight, and it looks like most of it is in my ass.
Stuart & Mike ham it up on the boom
Christina Murray from St. Louis, MO - she's single guys
80 degrees and Christina has the chills.
See you next year.

The weather during the party was overcast with light rain.  But that didn't deter everyone from having a great time.  Stuart and Shelly had enough barbeque on hand to feed a small army, and Mike Salber was kept busy working the bar.  As we say, "Everyone got Fat and Happy"

Shelly Singer kicked off the lip sync contest with a Gwen Stefani skit.  Then Katie and David Debourde stunned everyone with there great Grease skit.  Follow that up with Linny Velez aka "Butt Girl", and a Smokin HOT skit from Heather Davis and the party was rockin. 

Mike Salber as Bartender	Shelly Singer as Madonna
Shelly	Heather Davis prepares to dance with husband John.
Linny Velez	People are starting to show up.
Chillin by the bar, out of the rain.	Phillip Peeples performs to Rap song "Jump"

So you made it to the bottom.  Are you wondering where the really hot party pics are at?  Well, we're going to make you work for finding them.  Somewhere on this page is a hotspot that will take you to the really HOT stuff.  So get to work and see if you can find the hot spot.  If you don't know what a hot spot is, just move your mouse over the pictures on the page and when it changes from an arrow to a hand, you've found the hot spot.  I didn't make it easy to find, so good luck.