hi I'm Chris Cardone I'm the Northeast United States representative of the Flair bartenders Association and I want to talk about sequencing sequencing when it comes to Flair bartending is so important to make yourself look smooth and make it the Flair bartending aspect quicker and more precise so when it comes to sequencing it's taking a bunch of moves putting them into what's called a sequence and making it look smooth is there's an art to it and the science to it so the first thing you have to do is figure out what moves you want to put in the sequence so for today we'll just say I want to take a bottle pass through I want to take a bottle exchange and also a bottle pour and put them together so I want to think about how I can take these three moves and put them together in a sequence to make it look smooth so if I'm going to do an exchange I want to figure out that I'm going to start by holding my bottles in the exchange position where I can take the bottle and swipe it through the other one now the next move is going to be an exchange behind my back so I can take a bottle and I can throw it like this and catch it or I can think about after I do the swipe through where I want to go and I'm going to go behind my back so why change my position when I can simply throw it behind my back then I have to think about pouring the bottle like this so how do I take catching a bottle behind my back and putting that together with a pour maybe instead of just pouring it I'm going to take it and throw it behind my back and catch it like that to a pour and then when I want to put it all together I think about my moves I think about my hand positioning and I make it all look smooth like that make it all into a smooth sequence of moves instead of trying to do one move at a time it makes the bartender look smoother and it makes a quicker action so now I'm pumping out my drinks faster and that's how you put a sequence of moves together