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To open a tight bottle of soda, water, or champaign, do you struggle for an hour, trying method after method? For example:
- Run the bottle’s cap under hot water? No. This will not work if, for safety, your water heater does not heat water to a high enough temperature.
- Tap or hit the cap with a spoon or other metal object or against a hard surface? No. The bottle might open, but brute force methods break up carbonation. You’ll have a bottle of tasteless, disgusting liquid.
- And suppose you get tired of searching for friends who can help you open bottles. Suppose, in general, you don’t like constantly depending on others.
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You will use aggressive self-talk or visualize a high-intensity moment to trigger a release of hormones (adrenaline) from the adrenal glands sitting on your kidneys. This will increase your heart rate and the pumping of your lungs. That is, you will breathe in more oxygen and increase the flow of oxygen into your blood. This will prime your muscles to their peak strength. When your brain signals them, they will contract forcefully.
You will establish a fulcrum. You will stand up. Research shows that a standing posture is better for opening jars—it will allow you to create more torque than trying to open the bottle sitting down. You will grip the neck of the bottle tightly with your dominant hand. You will hold it close to your body (near your torso) to engage not just your wrists but your larger shoulder muscles and your even-larger back muscles as well. You will place your non-dominant hand over the cap that you have enclosed in a grip pad for your safety. (The cap is recommended but not absolutely necessary.)
You will not twist the bottle slowly. You will not “test” the cap by giving a gentle, wimpy twist first. You will override this impulse, chill, and apply 100% of your power immediately with a sudden, explosive counter-rotation.
As your non-dominant hand twists the cap, your dominant hand will not budge. Its crushing grip will keep the bottle immovable against the powerful force of your non-dominant hand on the cap. It won’t take much more than a one millisecond-long slam of force to break all the plastic bridges of the safety seal at once, and you and your onlookers will hear an instant pop.
Important: Focus on your friends, not the bottle, and when that cap pops you’ll be the coolest person in the room.
If you have any hand injuries or limitations that would make a high-intensity “slam” method risky for you, do NOT use this method. I am not responsible for any lack of judgment on your part—you know your own body.
To Open A Tight Bottle:
- Stand up straight.
2. Use your strongest hand to hold the bottle or the bottle’s neck tightly against your body. Use your weaker, more flexible hand to twist the cap off.
3. Wrap your grip pad around the bottle cap.
4. Engage your imagination and your past experience. Think of someone you are absolutely furious with.
5. Wait a moment, to allow your anger to build.
6. Slam that cap off that bottle.
You created rage. Then, with a single, controlled burst of power, you used your body and your imagination to channel that rage and open the bottle with no visible effort at all.
Dr. Jean M. Bradt
cassjmb10@att.net