Flair Bartending Lesson 61: Bump to Stall
If you’ve been following FBTV for a while, you know how I feel about The Bump. It can be a difficult move to learn, it hurts, and it turns me into a big baby. Sooooo, I figured why not do some more bump variations…
The Bump to Stall is simply that: doing the Bump of your forearm and then stalling the bottle on the back of your hand. The couple pointers I have for this move are as follows:
1) First and foremost, make sure you’re comfortable with The Bump. I know we get anxious and excited when we’re learning new moves and we often want to jump ahead to step #2 before we’ve fully understood step #1. I get it. I’m the same way. But do yourself a favor and really get comfortable with the Bump.
2) Get consistent with your Bump, making sure you can control the height, speed, and placement of the bottle’s rotation.
3) If necessary, go back to the original Stall and make sure you’re comfortable with that. Catching the stall off the Bump is trickier than your normal flip stall. You can make it easier by making sure you’ve done steps #1 and #2.
4) ) Don’t just “dead hand” the stall. The Bump may always hurt a little bit but the stall doesn’t have to. Just as we learned in the Flip Stall, you can increase your chance of landing the stall and decrease the collision with your hand by learning to read the timing of the bottle. Ultimately, you want to avoid just putting your hand flatly underneath the bottle but rather sliding it at an angle underneath the bottle while it is still rotating.
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