Flair Bartending

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 25 Apr 2005 00:10

Check out my new infatuation. Obviously I'm not there yet, but someday....

http://www.bartendergonewild.com/index.cfm

delakong · Post by **delakong** » 25 Apr 2005 07:24

DUDE!!! I love that stuff! I haven't looked at that link yet (kinda busy at work) but I worked with this girl at McDonald that could do some of that stuff. I remember they had the championships on ESPN (I think) and I could stop watching. That shit is CRAZY!!!

BainbridgeShred · Post by **BainbridgeShred** » 28 Apr 2005 18:20

how hard is it to get the basics down? Any links to some helpful sites?

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 28 Apr 2005 23:11

I've been looking for links for over a week. It's not like footbag. It seems that you pretty much have to pay for instructional videos or get a friend to bootleg them for you

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The basic basics are really not that much different from juggling pins except you have to keep in mind which way to catch the bottle.

There are two types of Flair. There is performance Flair where the bottle has hardly any liquid, if any at all. That's what's in the video I linked. The there is Working Flair which you would actually use while pouring drinks. I'm getting a dvd series on Working Flair in the next week or so.

delakong · Post by **delakong** » 29 Apr 2005 05:26

Splint wrote:There are two types of Flair. There is performance Flair where the bottle has hardly any liquid, if any at all. That's what's in the video I linked. The there is Working Flair which you would actually use while pouring drinks. I'm getting a dvd series on Working Flair in the next week or so.

That's what they had on ESPN. Working Flair is so much tighter. I think it's ten times as impressisve when someone does all that flippy stuff and can pour a perfect drink while doing it. They had that in the competion. There were three aspects of the comp. I don't remember what they were though. Drinks, Performance, and a mix of both of them I think.

Splint · Post by **Splint** » 29 Apr 2005 11:02

delakong wrote:That's what they had on ESPN. Working Flair is so much tighter. I think it's ten times as impressisve when someone does all that flippy stuff and can pour a perfect drink while doing it.

I agree. The Performance stuff is very cool, but it's so much more impressive when you tone down the flips enough to mix drinks. It's much more impressive to do the stuff while customers are watching.

SlashC · Post by **SlashC** » 29 Apr 2005 15:07

My favorite was when the one guy was bouncing the bottle on his forearm. That looks really tricky.