Flare Bartending Lesson #63: Basic Snatch Into Tin Around Head
I know I get geeked out by a bunch of different moves, but this one is just rocking good fun. It’s fast paced, easy to learn, and decently flashy. It also finishes in a great position, leaving you open to tons of other sequences. Let’s get down to it:
1) The Basic Snatch pretty much requires a 750 ml bottle. I’ve seen people try it with a 1 Liter but there really is no room for error with those (plus, it just kind of looks weird.)
2) This is technically Working Flair so you should be able to do this with nearly any amount of liquid in the bottle. However, I also include it in the Exhibition Flair category because of the use of the 750 ml bottle.
3) You may hear this move – where the bottle lands bottom-first into the tin – called either a nest, nesting, or a snatch. Oftentimes, nesting is when the bottle simply lands in the tin; snatching is where you swipe the tin through the air to scoop up the bottle. Basically, nesting = moving bottle, snatching = moving tin.
4) You can get comfortable with the easy version of this move by holding onto the bottle until it slides into the tin. Still works and there’s less worry that you’ll drop the bottle. However, eventually you’ll want to work up to being able to release the bottle and quickly snatch it out of mid-air.
5) To finish the move, bring the bottle/tin across your body up to your ear. As you slide your hand from the tin up to the neck of the bottle, use your other hand to catch the tin.
6) Complete the flair maneuver by bringing the bottle around your head. From there, the possibilities are endless. Try segueing into an Arm Roll Down or basically any of the first 10 lessons.
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