Jason Brown Generously Sent His Praiseworthy Comments to David Fetterman

Jason Brown - Olympic Bronze Medalist - Praises David

How often do you get an Olympic Bronze Medalist take the time to look at your efforts as a figure skater?  How often do you find someone kind enough to take the time, not only to say hi, but to praise your efforts and reinforce your hard work.  This is the kind of young man Jason Brown is - a wonderful role model.

Richard Alexander, David's coach and trainer here in San Jose, was in Chicago last week and connected Jason with David via text message.  They were going to simply swap pictures.  However, I was on the phone on this end and thought why not send a tiny video of David practicing.  Here is what the slow motion video looked like:

David's Waltz Jump and Sit Spin

Immediately, Jason texted back and sent this wonderful video greeting in return:

Jason Brown Video Text

As you can imagine, it made David's day.

What a wonderful thing to do - reaching out to young figure skaters and reinforcing them with a few words of praise.  It is the type of motivation and support money can not buy - helping them to continue early morning practices and competitive performances.

We appreciate it.  We also want to preserve this moment in David's blog so that years later he might reflect on the experience and extend the same courtesy and generosity of spirit to others.

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Brief Bio from Wikipedia:

Jason Brown (born December 15, 1994) is an American figure skater. He is the 2013 Trophée Éric Bompard bronze medalist, 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy champion, and 2014 U.S. national silver medalist. Brown is also a two-time World Junior medalist (2013 silver, 2012 bronze), the 2011 JGP Final champion, and the 2010 U.S. national junior champion. He won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.