The Palm Spin

[steinein]

Hey there, I'm new to flair bartending, I'm currently practising some moves like Arround the World and Shadow Moves, they go pretty well but I don't understand The Palm Spin.
Everytime I try to do that move the bottle / tin gets stuck behind my thumb or doesn't rotate all the way.
Got any tips for me?

Cheers,
Steinein

[Gidwick]

the simlest tip would be to try and spin the tin on the pad of the first finger on your palm (if that makes sense, its late lol)

Russ

[steinein]

I'll try that,
thanks Russ

[johnnyt]

This is something that I had a little difficulty trying to show one my students (partially because my Vietnamese needs a little work and mostly because it is something I have done naturally for so long I have forgotten how to break it down) and upon showing her I discovered something interesting. Some of us including myself have almost no ball to our palms; kind of like flat feet.
This may not help but I actually spin on my finger tips like a basketball it is very fast and risky for control but it looks super tight in competition once its down. Oddly you can transfer that to the palm because you get a quicker response for you hand motion. Almost the theory of cracking a whip but slightly more mechanical. You are actually setting the motion from your arm and elbow the same way a steam engines arm is driven from the piston and the momentum is whips down to the wrist that you naturally wrings or you hand up transferring the energy to the bottle.
Now this is an old bartender's take on the whole thing and I have never been to college so my knowledge of bio-mechanics and physics- well lets just say almost nil. However, this nicely worked for a tiny digits Vietnamese country girl.

[summieone]

I remember seeing somewhere a trick that I have used to teach people.

Sorry I can't remember who said it to me.

anyway, just imagine that you are going to throw a frisby.

hold the tin in your hand cock your wrist back "throw" and let it spin - it doesn't matter if it spins in your palm or on your fingers - just go with whatever feels natural.

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[hammo]

I tend to spin it on the fleshy parts of my hand just below where your fingers join your hands