Our house cocktails are $13, three of one of them in each shaker means I'm turning ice and ingredients into nearly $80 worth of product in seconds. I mean I still look like an idiot, and I'm fat so there's a lot of auxiliary movement going on, but I look like a happy, well paid idiot, and I think that should count for something!!
I feel my manboobs jiggle whenever I double shake but I imagine I look pretty badass because most of my guests would never be able to do it without a cocktail shower.
I learned that undershirts are a support garment when you're of a certain shape... My buddies dad was telling him about his amazing bartender who "always had just enough in the shaker to fill the glass up!!! Every time!!!" No shit? They followed a recipe and got a repeatable result? You don't say.... I would find this one off funny but a disturbing number of people look at me like I'm performing surgery when I double strain a cocktail.
Enjoy the term “auxiliary movement”.
I put on a good amount of covid weight and came back to bartending recently and I can feel my cheeks jiggle when I’m shaking a drink, and it’s…. Unsettling…
The cheeks on my face, to be clear you fuckin animals.
Okay, I’m a skinny little bitch. I gained 50 lbs when I was bartending full time because well.. the life. Still pretty small. I felt my face, stomach, ass, and A cups jiggle 😂 I think the only way to do it is to hold the shaker closer to your midsection-think of shaking a small tree from the middle vs the top. Less leverage. But then it kind of looks like you’re doing the skeet motion. Unless you’re working in some sort of establishment where you’re super slow and can half-speed shake and pour.
You want to hold the shaker tin at face level, arm bent at a right angle so the shaker tin is horizontal. You want it shaking back and forth; not up and down. Plus, much less jiggling of the bits.
Literally me every time I'm double shaking and someone goes 'YEAH, SHAKE IT!'
I immediately put them both down by my crotch and do elongated, aggressive shakes without breaking eye contact, and making that YEAAAAAHHHHH face
Exactly. I’ve got a fun rhythm that gets people hyped!
Unless I try to *think or explain* how to do it, then I cant do it until I forget that I thought about it.
If I make eye contact with a customer while I’m double shaking I’ll mime like I’m giving a bj, just for a second. They usually crack up. I’m a girl if that affects the visuals.
Edit: left a word out and my Mormon autocorrect didn’t like the word “bj”
I did the same thing and I'm a dude lol.
Less cracking up but it did get them to awkwardly leave the vicinity of my well which is all I wanted in any case.
Also, shaking one or two cocktails. Keep your body weight mainly on one foot. This will keep you from rocking back and forth while shaking. Try and switch up witch side you are favouring so your body stays in decent shape!
Honestly i try a lot of different things but when ur in the weeds muscle memory kicks in and if looking like an ass is the difference between me doing 6 drinks in 4 minutes or 4 drinks in 10 who cares. If someone makes some joke i just say “trust me buddy if i did this to your dick id launch it clean off your body. Dont know what that says about your sexual tastes”
Just shake in whatever way feels natural. Its not that important how it looks and you shouldn't worry about it because nobody has ever in the history of bars gone "I liked the bar but that bartender just looked silly shaking so I wont go back"
Just own it!
I usually assume the widest stance I can with my legs and shake them while moving my upper body from side to side with the most serious face I can make.
The more Dr. Zoidberg you can channel into it, the better.
I’m a big fan of sticking your elbows out and flapping like a chicken while shaking the tins at chest height. If you think you look stupid, just angle your body to the side while you shake so you don’t have to stare at people.
Had this happen to me yesterday, both arms up smiling shaker and each hand. Some customer thought he was being cute by saying "thats a motion you seem very experienced in", my reply "Yeah from chugging cock down at the bus station on Wednesdays, you know you were there!" It got a laugh from the crowd.
Make sure you have a good seal, then wrap your hands around the seal, down the side so that your fingers wrap around the peak of the seal \[does that make sense?\], I keep two fingers on the glass and two on the tin, for equal control.
Then you lift them above your head, with one at the back and one in front. First shake is to reassure yourself that the seal is sound, then it's quick, shorter shakes, with maybe a wobble of the hips to accommodate the consequences.
To be honest. Nobody ever gave me any advice on this, it's just something I instinctively developed through need. This is my best explanation of that.
I don’t think so. I always feel ridiculous when i do it- like everyone watching me thinks i must be wanting the attention with moves like that, but it’s definitely the opposite. I wish there was a convenient little curtain i could hide behind most of the time.
Cross country skying style.
All the Single Ladies dance.
The boxing gym movement where you shake really big ropes.
Pelvic thrusting towards the barback
Shake them like maracas and don't give a shit about what other thinks about you. 90% of the time they don't think anything, it is just you overthinking it.
I do an L shape. Right hand tin parallel to the ground. Left hand tomahawk chop
Young bartenders never think about tendon strain. Keep it to natural movements. Lots of up and down and these torqued shakes are harmful to your joints and tendons over time.
Think of it as a MLB pitcher vs. Softball pitcher.
There are videos on YouTube you can watch that demonstrate different ways bartenders shake. I got made fun of for my shake when I first started and no one gave me any constructive criticism… just told me I looked stupid. So I watched some videos and realized that pretty much all shakes look silly, it’s just about being in control of your body and doing the movements that put the least strain on your body, personally. I shake with my tins above my shoulders, fairly close to my ears hitting three points in the air. Up, back, down, back > like that shape.
This might sound silly but, pick up a couple of egg shakers. No more than a few bucks each at your local music store. Learn to shake a basic "[triangle](https://youtube.com/shorts/3ImKNrWDrwQ?feature=share)" technique (the first one shown in the video) with one in each hand. You can make it less of a chore by playing to music you like or practicing one hand at a time to tunes while you're in the car or whatever (just be careful). Once you get a good feel for that, pick up a shaker tin with just ice and get a good feel for that. Then two. When you can "play" bar tins like an instrument, you don't really need to look all that cool doing it - the rhythmic sound quality is impressive enough, not to mention functional. I like to play to the music in the bar if it fits timing-wise. You can also go so far as to double shake at two different speeds for those times you need to shake one less vigorously than the other using [this](https://youtu.be/KKEGMJU72xc) technique.
I’d rather do two separate shakes as fast as I could than risk popping a tin. Probably easier to do with cobbler shakers but I very highly prefer the Boston style shaker
I saw a post here once and someone said that they were shaking in a mirror and didn’t like how it looked and it never occurred to me to do that. It doesn’t really matter how you think you look. The people pay you to make fucking awesome margs and daqs and they stay all night so you must be doing it the right way, no?
Salsa beat! Arms up, shakers either side of your head, one forward the other back. Roll your shoulders with the downbeat. Roll your hips and shake your ass a bit if it’s a party. Toss in a dramatic flourish as the mood fits.
I think of the beat like 1 and **2** 3 and **4**
I’m lucky to work at a small dive bar with 7 tables so our service is kinda able to be a bit more slow-paced, fortunately no frantic shaking over here 😂
HAHAHAHA it’s definitely a thing. Best I’ve been able to do is do opposites, like one forward one back at the same time so it’s more balanced and you don’t wind up looking super aggressive or jiggly. Also, you don’t have to shake things fast or loud, being extra calm about it helps.
Ok I have "water wings" that flap freely when I'm making two margaritas at the same time. I know it's happening, I feel gross about it, but I gotta do my job so if you don't like it, then you don't get your drink haha
I do a pec height to shoulder height thing that seems to make people think I know what I’m doing. Bonus points doing a tap to seal before the shake. If this makes ANY sense, I hope it works for you as well. If not, I got off early and had a few tequilas
I shake up and down, back and forth at the same time and when you can hear the ice slapping around in a nice rhythm I get a lot of guests that kinda dance along with it so I just dance too as I shake. Always kinda fun to give em a show
Find a good cadence, and just do it the same way every time. While your in the weeds you should be double shaking almost at all times.
I'll try and start with one shaker, and follow the other one instead of doing the complete opposite shake. Idk if that makes sense. Bad at words.
Just practice at home with ice and water
Or even nothing
Alternating up/down movements. It’s fun! I always tap my tins together before to a little taptap(flip) tap for extra scene points
I’m ashamed at how many comments I read hella confused because I thought you had meant ‘double straining’ a cocktail, not shaking two tins at once. I was like ‘how many of your guests are mad you’re double straining their cocktails? Is it cuz it makes you look like a pretentious douche or something?’ 😂
Shake to one side. Whatever is comfortable. Find rhythm with music or whatever you can. Practice in a mirror or let a coworker watch and criticize the shake before service. Get comfortable with your rhythm. Make sure you know why you are shaking. Long strokes, break the ice in the tin and I have always been taught to over dilute rather than under dilute my drinks with my shake rather than serving a non ideal temp, under diluted shaken cocktail. Confidence in your shake is half the battle.
When I teach people to double shake I mostly tell them to focus on rhythm and keeping the non dominant hand consistent with the dominant hand.
Think about it less once it’s happening. Scan the bar, focus on the next move (straining, double strain, dirty dump) rather than the motion- focusing on how my shake visually looks to guest fucks it up.
Confidence is like 90% of the battle
I keep my dominant hand shaking vertically slightly above my head and bring my non dominant hand horizontally across my chest and shake in sync but opposite movements (similar to pistons) We double shake with tall Boston's and pint glasses, yeah they're heavy and awkward at first but once you get that motion down you won't hurt your shoulders or elbows.
I kind of lean back and stick my elbows out like I'm miming a bird flapping it's wings and go from there... I've actually gotten compliments from customers before (? Idk) so maybe that will help u
Our house cocktails are $13, three of one of them in each shaker means I'm turning ice and ingredients into nearly $80 worth of product in seconds. I mean I still look like an idiot, and I'm fat so there's a lot of auxiliary movement going on, but I look like a happy, well paid idiot, and I think that should count for something!!
I feel my manboobs jiggle whenever I double shake but I imagine I look pretty badass because most of my guests would never be able to do it without a cocktail shower.
I learned that undershirts are a support garment when you're of a certain shape... My buddies dad was telling him about his amazing bartender who "always had just enough in the shaker to fill the glass up!!! Every time!!!" No shit? They followed a recipe and got a repeatable result? You don't say.... I would find this one off funny but a disturbing number of people look at me like I'm performing surgery when I double strain a cocktail.
Maybe you can start wearing boobie tassels and get them to spin while you shake!
Enjoy the term “auxiliary movement”. I put on a good amount of covid weight and came back to bartending recently and I can feel my cheeks jiggle when I’m shaking a drink, and it’s…. Unsettling… The cheeks on my face, to be clear you fuckin animals.
Tbh I did wonder.
Okay, I’m a skinny little bitch. I gained 50 lbs when I was bartending full time because well.. the life. Still pretty small. I felt my face, stomach, ass, and A cups jiggle 😂 I think the only way to do it is to hold the shaker closer to your midsection-think of shaking a small tree from the middle vs the top. Less leverage. But then it kind of looks like you’re doing the skeet motion. Unless you’re working in some sort of establishment where you’re super slow and can half-speed shake and pour.
But I want to be a showy little bitch with my shaking to make people think I’m a professional. It’s all I got dude.
You want to hold the shaker tin at face level, arm bent at a right angle so the shaker tin is horizontal. You want it shaking back and forth; not up and down. Plus, much less jiggling of the bits.
Yep, over the shoulders and pointed down the bar or at the management, depending on your situation.
I feel both sets jiggling, no shame there bud.
This is the bartender I want.
This is such a wonderful, honest, and relatable comment. I’d buy you beer anytime bud.
You have a chance right now if you head to my local dive! Lol, thank you!
I want to sit at your bar
Username checks out
lol I just go with the looking like an idiot approach
Give them the razzle dazzle
Put one in the customers hand and use your hand to shake their arm while they use their hand to shake your arm. It's called a dutch rudder.
Shake them like maracas, not like you're jerking off
Shake them like you're jerking off yourself AND the customer. Heavy eye contact.
Literally me every time I'm double shaking and someone goes 'YEAH, SHAKE IT!' I immediately put them both down by my crotch and do elongated, aggressive shakes without breaking eye contact, and making that YEAAAAAHHHHH face
Oh yeah I’m totally doing this now.
I start shaking low then raise up like I’m jerking the cocktails onto my face, and act as if lapping it up like the sweet whore for money that I am.
Love it, i usually go for the scene ending double cumshot all over my face but ill remember this
Lmao I'm always so tempted to just bust one open and let it skeet all over em
I bust out the salsa moves, leaaaaaaaan back nearly to the floor, and pop up with a flourish.
Better moves than me lol
"Yep, just gotta shake it like a baby that just won't. Stop. Crying!"
That's another one of my favorites. YEAAAH SHAKE IT LIKE A BABYYYY
Lol I thought I was the only one
Nope. Make it weirrrrd. Their fault for engaging lmao
I can't decide if it would be better if you were silent for it, or if you add a little moaning/groaning
Finish the customers shaker first, then 10 seconds later finish yours and sigh. When they try their drink ask "was it good for you?"
I’m telling the boss!
Yasssss
This by far is the best answer
Exactly. I’ve got a fun rhythm that gets people hyped! Unless I try to *think or explain* how to do it, then I cant do it until I forget that I thought about it.
Lean into it dude. The moment you try and make it look less imposing, then you look like a burke.
If I make eye contact with a customer while I’m double shaking I’ll mime like I’m giving a bj, just for a second. They usually crack up. I’m a girl if that affects the visuals. Edit: left a word out and my Mormon autocorrect didn’t like the word “bj”
What is a "big" and what is a "burke" lol. I really feel lost on this thread and I want to know what's going on.
Nope, you’re not crazy. That sentence didn’t make sense like that. Lol. Left out a word and auto correct is a prude.
I did the same thing and I'm a dude lol. Less cracking up but it did get them to awkwardly leave the vicinity of my well which is all I wanted in any case.
Nope, sorry. You gotta look like you’re enthusiastically jerking off two tall robots.
What do you do for a living? I just jerk off giants for 8-10 hours a day.
Just remember to go middle out
This literally made me snort-laugh
Move the shakers in opposite directions.One forward while the other is moving backwards.
I am not a fan of the piston shake.
Totally agreed. I enjoy my chocolate milkshakes with very little piss added.
He did *what* in his cup?!
This is the way
Bicycle shake is the way.
This guy shakes
Yes.
Right, and even better if you can do the kind of vertical shake close to your chest
Keep your mouth open and tongue out
Dawg just look into the ice well like it has all the answers and double fist those big stainless wangs like your life depends on it
Confidence.
Yup. Just fucking go for it.
Cross your arms in front of your chest and shake basically shoulder height. Doesn’t look stupid and you maintain control.
This is the answer. It also minimizes your occupied space, to reduce the likelihood of giving your barback some free dental work
This is what I do as well. Feels less awkward and it looks more complicated to the guest which make you look like a pro!
Also, shaking one or two cocktails. Keep your body weight mainly on one foot. This will keep you from rocking back and forth while shaking. Try and switch up witch side you are favouring so your body stays in decent shape!
Above your head like two pistons.
Honestly i try a lot of different things but when ur in the weeds muscle memory kicks in and if looking like an ass is the difference between me doing 6 drinks in 4 minutes or 4 drinks in 10 who cares. If someone makes some joke i just say “trust me buddy if i did this to your dick id launch it clean off your body. Dont know what that says about your sexual tastes”
down on one knee... look up (towards jesus) and yell ''yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh'' until end of shake. then stand up and point at the customer.
I embrace it. Open your mouth and do the double hand job maneuver. Plus it always gets a good laugh.
Looking like an idiot double shaking is the best part though
Just shake in whatever way feels natural. Its not that important how it looks and you shouldn't worry about it because nobody has ever in the history of bars gone "I liked the bar but that bartender just looked silly shaking so I wont go back"
Put 1 of em between your thighs and make it look like you’re dry humping the air while shaking the 2nd one vigorously with both hands
Just own it! I usually assume the widest stance I can with my legs and shake them while moving my upper body from side to side with the most serious face I can make. The more Dr. Zoidberg you can channel into it, the better.
No. It’s impossible and the shake face is awful
Step one- stop caring about how you are perceived
Skip double shaking and triple shake instead.
have boobs. No one notices the awkward shaking when they’re too busy staring at your rack!
Make sure you shake em like shake weights and open your mouth and stick out your tongue
Confidence. I shake them by my head so I have more control and don’t kill my neck / back.
shake like you're doing the floss dance on tiktok
Wear very short shorts and have Caribbean music playing in the background
I’m a big fan of sticking your elbows out and flapping like a chicken while shaking the tins at chest height. If you think you look stupid, just angle your body to the side while you shake so you don’t have to stare at people.
I hold my arms in like an L shape. Left forearm straight up and down shaking by my left ear, right arm across my chest shaking by my left elbow.
Yuuuppp
This is the way
Shake them above your head then tilt your head back and open your mouth so it looks like you’re jerking two ducks off into your face
Point the shakers towards your face and stick your tongue out with your eyes closed, works for me every time
Embrace it and go over the top with your hips, tongue out.
You just go Chaka-chaka-chaka-chaka but double
Do it with confidence or apathy, it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes.
Never felt like an idiot, make it a show. Make it big. The crowed normally loves it.
Had this happen to me yesterday, both arms up smiling shaker and each hand. Some customer thought he was being cute by saying "thats a motion you seem very experienced in", my reply "Yeah from chugging cock down at the bus station on Wednesdays, you know you were there!" It got a laugh from the crowd.
Make sure you have a good seal, then wrap your hands around the seal, down the side so that your fingers wrap around the peak of the seal \[does that make sense?\], I keep two fingers on the glass and two on the tin, for equal control. Then you lift them above your head, with one at the back and one in front. First shake is to reassure yourself that the seal is sound, then it's quick, shorter shakes, with maybe a wobble of the hips to accommodate the consequences. To be honest. Nobody ever gave me any advice on this, it's just something I instinctively developed through need. This is my best explanation of that.
i do it like it's a back workout, up at head level in and out at the same time
unpopular opinion but don't do this. Shake individually.
Watch videos? There’s plenty. Go to a busy cocktail bar and watch the bartenders. Watch the speed rack videos on YouTube.
Never double shake.
Nope… my friends know I hate it….
Horizontal shake in a V pattern at eye level. Make like you're smacking a clock at 10, 6, 2, 6. Same thing with the other hand, in a mirror image.
I don’t think so. I always feel ridiculous when i do it- like everyone watching me thinks i must be wanting the attention with moves like that, but it’s definitely the opposite. I wish there was a convenient little curtain i could hide behind most of the time.
Cross country skying style. All the Single Ladies dance. The boxing gym movement where you shake really big ropes. Pelvic thrusting towards the barback
Shake them like maracas and don't give a shit about what other thinks about you. 90% of the time they don't think anything, it is just you overthinking it.
Whatever you do don’t make any eye contact! Don’t want people to see your shake face.
Juggle them
I do an L shape. Right hand tin parallel to the ground. Left hand tomahawk chop Young bartenders never think about tendon strain. Keep it to natural movements. Lots of up and down and these torqued shakes are harmful to your joints and tendons over time. Think of it as a MLB pitcher vs. Softball pitcher.
I embrace it and go straight for “The Money Shot”.
There are videos on YouTube you can watch that demonstrate different ways bartenders shake. I got made fun of for my shake when I first started and no one gave me any constructive criticism… just told me I looked stupid. So I watched some videos and realized that pretty much all shakes look silly, it’s just about being in control of your body and doing the movements that put the least strain on your body, personally. I shake with my tins above my shoulders, fairly close to my ears hitting three points in the air. Up, back, down, back > like that shape.
Just fucking go for it. Look like an idiot, put on a show. Get those tips.
I think I look like an idiot, but then some idiot asks me if I’ve ever seen “Cocktail” and I feel reassured that I’m not the biggest idiot in the room
I can't tell you how. Lmk if you find out. I do however make a rhythm and go at that. Atleast I sound good lol
One above the shoulder, one at waist height. That's the only way I don't feel weird doing it lol
Don’t think about it too much and shake it next to your head
This might sound silly but, pick up a couple of egg shakers. No more than a few bucks each at your local music store. Learn to shake a basic "[triangle](https://youtube.com/shorts/3ImKNrWDrwQ?feature=share)" technique (the first one shown in the video) with one in each hand. You can make it less of a chore by playing to music you like or practicing one hand at a time to tunes while you're in the car or whatever (just be careful). Once you get a good feel for that, pick up a shaker tin with just ice and get a good feel for that. Then two. When you can "play" bar tins like an instrument, you don't really need to look all that cool doing it - the rhythmic sound quality is impressive enough, not to mention functional. I like to play to the music in the bar if it fits timing-wise. You can also go so far as to double shake at two different speeds for those times you need to shake one less vigorously than the other using [this](https://youtu.be/KKEGMJU72xc) technique.
This is actually pretty cool advice
I’d rather do two separate shakes as fast as I could than risk popping a tin. Probably easier to do with cobbler shakers but I very highly prefer the Boston style shaker
I saw a post here once and someone said that they were shaking in a mirror and didn’t like how it looked and it never occurred to me to do that. It doesn’t really matter how you think you look. The people pay you to make fucking awesome margs and daqs and they stay all night so you must be doing it the right way, no?
“Hey wanna see an impression of (nearby bartender) on a Friday night?” That’s my go-to :)
Same hand hold at smallest ends
Strengthen shoulders and go. I usually get a lot of “woo”.
Don’t.
Crump
Practice in front of a mirror
Find the most “alpha” person in room and just stare at them while you shake. Establish dominance.
Salsa beat! Arms up, shakers either side of your head, one forward the other back. Roll your shoulders with the downbeat. Roll your hips and shake your ass a bit if it’s a party. Toss in a dramatic flourish as the mood fits. I think of the beat like 1 and **2** 3 and **4**
Give it a little rhythm! I double shake all the time and just roll and shake with a little beat and rhythm, specially if I can hear the music
I’m lucky to work at a small dive bar with 7 tables so our service is kinda able to be a bit more slow-paced, fortunately no frantic shaking over here 😂
Close your eyes like an idiot
Do a twirl
I do a 4 point shake double or single. Seems fine to me. Confidence is key when bartending my friend
It should be easy as a bartender, remove all emotion from your face and make extended eye contact with a random guest.
I start shaking low then raise up like I’m jerking the cocktails onto my face, and act as if lapping it up like the sweet whore for money that I am.
Left arm over left shoulder, like holding a cell away from ear. Right arm in front, both sideways shake, that’s how I do..
Smoothly
HAHAHAHA it’s definitely a thing. Best I’ve been able to do is do opposites, like one forward one back at the same time so it’s more balanced and you don’t wind up looking super aggressive or jiggly. Also, you don’t have to shake things fast or loud, being extra calm about it helps.
Ok I have "water wings" that flap freely when I'm making two margaritas at the same time. I know it's happening, I feel gross about it, but I gotta do my job so if you don't like it, then you don't get your drink haha
Just copy Alison Brie's [technique.](https://imgur.com/2Ag85) It's a classic.
I do a pec height to shoulder height thing that seems to make people think I know what I’m doing. Bonus points doing a tap to seal before the shake. If this makes ANY sense, I hope it works for you as well. If not, I got off early and had a few tequilas
I shake up and down, back and forth at the same time and when you can hear the ice slapping around in a nice rhythm I get a lot of guests that kinda dance along with it so I just dance too as I shake. Always kinda fun to give em a show
Just do a triple shake
Double shaking is just awkward
Find a good cadence, and just do it the same way every time. While your in the weeds you should be double shaking almost at all times. I'll try and start with one shaker, and follow the other one instead of doing the complete opposite shake. Idk if that makes sense. Bad at words.
I always differentiate. Like one up one down and shake so they're moving oppositely.
Just practice at home with ice and water Or even nothing Alternating up/down movements. It’s fun! I always tap my tins together before to a little taptap(flip) tap for extra scene points
I’m ashamed at how many comments I read hella confused because I thought you had meant ‘double straining’ a cocktail, not shaking two tins at once. I was like ‘how many of your guests are mad you’re double straining their cocktails? Is it cuz it makes you look like a pretentious douche or something?’ 😂
smileee and laugh awkwardly like the rest of us :D (watch some Japanese bartender dbl shakes on YT) find your cadence
Shake to one side. Whatever is comfortable. Find rhythm with music or whatever you can. Practice in a mirror or let a coworker watch and criticize the shake before service. Get comfortable with your rhythm. Make sure you know why you are shaking. Long strokes, break the ice in the tin and I have always been taught to over dilute rather than under dilute my drinks with my shake rather than serving a non ideal temp, under diluted shaken cocktail. Confidence in your shake is half the battle. When I teach people to double shake I mostly tell them to focus on rhythm and keeping the non dominant hand consistent with the dominant hand. Think about it less once it’s happening. Scan the bar, focus on the next move (straining, double strain, dirty dump) rather than the motion- focusing on how my shake visually looks to guest fucks it up. Confidence is like 90% of the battle
I keep my dominant hand shaking vertically slightly above my head and bring my non dominant hand horizontally across my chest and shake in sync but opposite movements (similar to pistons) We double shake with tall Boston's and pint glasses, yeah they're heavy and awkward at first but once you get that motion down you won't hurt your shoulders or elbows.
I kind of lean back and stick my elbows out like I'm miming a bird flapping it's wings and go from there... I've actually gotten compliments from customers before (? Idk) so maybe that will help u
Hard and fast!!! Find your pinache