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On this week’s podcast we’re going deep on old skool vs new faculty aptitude competitors and the place the persona has gone.
Again in my day…
After I first began aptitude bartending the competitions to win have been Legends of Bartending and Quest, each within the US and each incorporating showmanship and technical abilities in addition to the exhibition aptitude which continues to be ubiquitous at the moment.
Bartenders have been compelled to really know the abilities wanted behind the bar and never simply the working and exhibition aptitude strikes in isolation from the actual world of working bartenders.
Vanilla Aptitude?
In the present day the aptitude competitions generally have turns into so specialised that opponents don’t actually need to have ever stepped behind a bar to be a winner at these competitions – the abilities wanted might be practiced in isolation from the precise self-discipline of bartending, and even those that do nonetheless work behind the mahogany need to focus so arduous on the extremely technical strikes that a lot of them won’t ever have tried bar bets, magic methods and the like with their visitors.
If you happen to don’t do it behind the bar…
…is it nonetheless aptitude bartending, or does it simply grow to be bottle flipping. Certainly the bartending a part of it’s derived from tending to the visitors at a bar, not only a default title as a result of your specific juggling act is carried out with bottles and shaker tins.
Mainly, for me, for those who don’t do it in your paying visitors on the bar, you’re losing your time studying this and calling it bartending.
Possibly I’m fully mistaken, and if I’m, it’s essential to inform me about it! Let me know within the feedback.
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