Flair Bartending Competition in Omaha - Zero Gravity Flair - Qualifying Round

I've been so focused on working as a bartender and teaching flair bartending that I haven't competed in a flair bartending competition in almost two years. So when my old friend and coach Martin Janica invited me to the Zero Gravity Flair Competition in Omaha, NE, I knew it was time to dust of my competition bottles and enter the ring.

This is a video of the first night, the 3-minute qualifying round. Overall, I was pretty happy with my routine. The first two minutes are nearly flawless - I missed maybe two moves I wanted to land, but no spills or drops. The last minute, unfortunately, wasn't quite as smooth. After the first drop, I couldn't get my groove back. My juggling just fell apart. According to the judge's score sheet, I had 7 drops and 4 spills, all of them apparently in the last 45 seconds. Bummer. Either way, I took 12th place, which was enough to advance me to the finals the next night.

Check out http://www.ChrisTheBartender.com to learn some of the moves I used in my routine.

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• Extreme

[crazybj777]

Dammm... Your good.  How'd you do? Did you win?

[MangoMyers]

@crazybj777 I ended up taking 10th place, out of 20. There were some really awesome competitors. All I really wanted to do was have a clean round and qualify for the finals, which I did. Check out my 5-minute final round if you get a chance.

[Gasolina987]

GOOOOOD CHRIS!!!!! GREAT!!!

Can you to do something of "flair on fire" in your tutorial?? ^.^

[MangoMyers]

@Gasolina987 Though I used fire in my show at Kahunaville for 2 years, I no longer use fire at all. One of my co-workers burned himself pretty badly; I also read a story awhile back about a customer getting burned. Out of respect to them (and to my pretty face) I decided using fire would be irresponsible. I understand that fire can be amazing to watch, but I just didn't think the risk was worth it to me or my customers.

[fettcp]

I love this! I bought my first practice-bottle three days ago, and I've already seen all your videos. You are awesome and talented - a true inspiration!

[lewislennon]

Nice one!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rexizam1993]

NICE ONE dude im learning Flair`ing from ur clip`s :) damn ur good :)

[MrGarratt1]

one word - LEGEND!!!

[mykkePet]

It was awesome to have learned from your tutorials, practice and display my new techniques behind the bar, but never actually knew that you could move as well as you did in this video - great inspiration.

[Sparkerdanny]

awsome ! very nice !

[shronked]

Nice work for not doing any comp. in 2 years :-)

too bad you couldn't get your head back into the game at the end - but that's life ;-)

[Mapa729]

sick dude! I watch your flairing vids and this was a great demo of your skills.