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mechBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom


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and have found nothing on thsi topic, or nothing of help!



does anyone on here do this, any tips , im looking to buy maybe three bottles, and was wondingthe pros and cons of teh most commons bottles



does anyone have agood site to buy from?



any other info would be helpfulcheers ppl hug

Step (el-nombrie)


mechBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom


Posted:
oh and rouge, i normally find flat bottomed squash (cordial) bottles to be good, they are about the same height as a bar bottle, and fill it with water and away you go smile

Step (el-nombrie)


PyroWillGOLD Member
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom


Posted:
MY personal advice would be get a hard flair bottle, because as i've learnt from flairing the thing you need most is weight, the light plastic (even when filled with water) is a much different feel and cannot be manipulated in the same way, maybe im wrong and it worked for you mech but personally i wouldn't.

If you can't afford/access a Flaior bottle I'd advise going for glass and as Majeestik said wrap it in gaffa tape and cover the top. Again in my opinion the best glass bottle to use if you want to flair with is a Malibu bottle, it is made out of thickened glass and also has a plastic sheet around it which means it can take a hell of a lot of drops even on hard flooring without breaking, whereas a regular rum/vodka bottle would be lucky to survive 2 drops.

If you can i'd say practise on grass however this can be very crap if its been raining because flairing is almost impossible if your hands are wet.

Best advice, get a Flair bottle and shaker smile

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife

"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian


Mr MajestikSILVER Member
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Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia


Posted:
yayness, am currently in sydney and am happy to inform all that last week i did a flair-tending course with Loy Catada, who was the world champ in 2000/2001. it was so much fun and he had practice bottles to sell (i bought three) so now i can become an awesome cocktail-flairtender and conquer the known world! smile

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

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Mr MajestikSILVER Member
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4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia


Posted:
...hasnt happened yet....i'll update in another year ubblol

although a month ago i started to get inside the elbow stalls, they're pretty pro smile

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley


YakumoSILVER Member
veteran
1,237 posts
Location: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom


Posted:
/me wonders what exactly marked Flaior bottle's apart, the site is long dead now..

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splinterificGOLD Member
enthusiast
248 posts
Location: Ireland


Posted:
hooray for flair! smile just picked it up over the weekend, got a vodka style bottle and a malibu style smile loads of fun...

ElectricBlueGOLD Member
Now with extra strawberries
810 posts
Location: Canberra, Australia


Posted:
i was driving past an oval near where i live the other day and i saw the weirdest thing. There was a guy practicing bar flairing stuff in the middle of the oval while at the same time walking his dog.
Definatly made my day.

I {Heart} hand me downs and spinning in the snow.<br /><br />


Mr MajestikSILVER Member
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Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia


Posted:
 Written by: Blueberry


i was driving past an oval near where i live the other day and i saw the weirdest thing. There was a guy practicing bar flairing stuff in the middle of the oval while at the same time walking his dog.
Definatly made my day.



haha, thats awesome, last year i saw a guy practicing in hyde park, he looked a little to serious to approach though. some flairers can be a bit pedantic i think

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley


Juggling Jack FlashGOLD Member
Sneaking
1,207 posts
Location: Free falling through time, United Kingdom


Posted:
Whaddya mean pedantic? We flairtenders are jugglers like the rest of you, come up and say wavehello

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you land among the stars


ElectricBlueGOLD Member
Now with extra strawberries
810 posts
Location: Canberra, Australia


Posted:
I would not say pedantic but i have meet a large portion of bar flairers that are quite snobby? if that makes sense.

Not that i haven't met some really cool and nice ones though

I {Heart} hand me downs and spinning in the snow.<br /><br />


splinterificGOLD Member
enthusiast
248 posts
Location: Ireland


Posted:
aye, thats due to the fact that a good barflairer can make a huge amount of money i imagine... well thats what iv been led to believe...

ElectricBlueGOLD Member
Now with extra strawberries
810 posts
Location: Canberra, Australia


Posted:
Yup thats the feeling i got too.

I {Heart} hand me downs and spinning in the snow.<br /><br />


Mr MajestikSILVER Member
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4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia


Posted:
snobby, perfect word. smile

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley


PyroWillGOLD Member
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom


Posted:
Does anybody on this board still play with le bottles?

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife

"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian


willworkforfoodjnrSILVER Member
Hunting robot foxes
1,046 posts
Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (UK)


Posted:
I've been known to dabble a couple of times a week. I mostly end up doing club-style body throws with a bottle + shaker, not played much with balances yet.

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!


splinterificGOLD Member
enthusiast
248 posts
Location: Ireland


Posted:
ye i still give it a blast smile plenty of fun to be hand with it:)

Mr MajestikSILVER Member
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4,696 posts
Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia


Posted:
no practice, just like to throw empties about when i'm bored. last year i lived in student accommodation, person under me got a little ticked when i played and this year i dont have them with me frown

i aim to fix that next time i go home though biggrin

p.s. this reminds me that a friend still has one of my practice bottles, must get that back off her.

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley


DFLAIRstranger
1 post
Location: nz


Posted:
i teach flair ..look up dflair..teaching through workforce development

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