Here’s how to perfect the Water Bottle Flip, the teen meme of the moment

Teenager Mike Senatore has taken the internet by storm this week thanks to the now viral video of

him flipping a water bottle at his high school talent show in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The teen’s flip trick follows in a long line of teenagers filming themselves performing trick shots

and pretending to be Tom Cruise in Cocktail. Senatore told The Charlotte Observer he first performed

the feat last year while bored in a chemistry class. He perfected the skill when things were slow at

his job and planned the stunt for the whole school year.

But how do you do it?

I tried it myself, mimicking the movements used by the flippers in the videos. It’s harder than it

looks. I needed an expert, clearly. I needed Mike Senatore, but The Charlotte Observer had Mike

Senatore. He told the paper Deer Park-brand bottles, filled to the “third divot,” work best for this

stunt.

A brief refresher in physics was in order. “It looks like a center of gravity issue where you spin

the bottle, keeping the liquid on the bottom, and making the bottom of the bottle heavy so it tends

to land on its bottom and stay there,” Steve Bove, a physics teacher at Capitol High School in

Olympia, Wash., told me.

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